What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? Grafana v12.0.2 (NOT in a Docker container), RHEL8 What are you trying to achieve? find the best practice for setting up connections to the data sources across more than once instance of Grafana. We have 3 separate environments:…

Are these dev/qa/production type of environments? if you want to keep those uids the same across environments, it probably is best to use provisioning.

ooh. That looks interesting. I wasn’t aware of that facility. So if I define my datasources in a yaml, Grafana will pick them up and use them. I take it I can set the UIDs for them there? As I’ve already got Grafana instances with the datasources in place, is there a way to export the settings re…

but again. you have not answered what all this instances are that requires copying dashboard jsons :wink: another option is to use git sync. so your dashboards are artifacts committed to gitlab

[image] yosiasz: Are these dev/qa/production type of environments? Sorry, I thought that was implicit in my original description. Yes. They are. All the best. M.

Just so the followup question doesn’t get lost, here it is again: [image] marcozin: So if I define my datasources in a yaml, Grafana will pick them up and use them. I take it I can set the UIDs for them there? As I’ve already got Grafana instances with the datasources in place, is there a way…

[image] Provision Grafana | Grafana documentation Describes provisioning settings for Grafana using configuration files. Here you go

Ta. Does that mean there isn’t a way to export the current settings for the data sources that were entered via the UI?

Hi All, In case it’s of any use to others, I’ve worked out how to get the current settings for the DataSources. For background - our Grafana runs on RHEL8 and we’ve set it up for https. Log onto the server Run the following command to return a list of the data sources from the API: curl -k http…

Aligning the uid's for datasources across multiple instances of Grafana

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marcozin January 30, 2026, 11:39am 5

Sorry, I thought that was implicit in my original description. Yes. They are.
All the best.
M.

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