can I stop the running of grafana and keep teslamate?

[HanwGu]

In order to save resources, can I stop the running of grafana and keep teslamate all the time?

Will teslamate container pull data successfully？

Wait until I need to check the data, and then start grafana.

[CasperKristiansson]

Yes. In the standard Docker Compose setup, TeslaMate is the logger and writes to PostgreSQL; Grafana is a separate reader. Grafana does not participate in polling the car, so stopping only that service will not stop collection:

docker compose stop grafana
# later
docker compose start grafana

Leave teslamate and database running (and mosquitto if your setup uses MQTT). stop does not remove the Grafana container or its teslamate-grafana-data volume, so its dashboards and settings remain for the next start.

One caveat: the standard Compose file gives Grafana restart: always. A manually stopped container stays stopped during ordinary operation, but Docker can start it again after the Docker daemon or host restarts. If you want Grafana to remain opt-in across reboots, change only its service to restart: "no" (or put it behind a Compose profile). Also, a later bare docker compose up -d starts every non-profile service again.

After stopping it, you can confirm logging continues with docker compose logs --since 10m teslamate and the TeslaMate web UI.

[HanwGu]

Thanks for the thorough response!👍

Best wishes for you.