Customize URL/URI/UID of a grafana PUBLIC dashboard

Grafana Dashboards
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Hello, I’d like to know what’s the process of customizing the public dashboard URL.
I’m trying to build an small kiosk. And customizing the URL will make my life easier.
I know that you can achieve custom URI with the JSON, but that’s for the dashboard itself and not the public URL.

When I looked in the JSON file, I couldn’t find an option for the public URL dashboard.
Also, I the field of the URL can’t be edited.

Is there a way?
I want to change the UID ( d88d8df200dc47219dfc06a2a7d0b490) to something more legible for the kiosk.

Thanks!

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    10.0.0
  • What are you trying to achieve?
    Change the UID of the public dashboard url
  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    Tried looking on google like an insane person, no luck
  • What happened?
    No luck
  • What did you expect to happen?
    Be able to change the URI of the URL
  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
    No
  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
    No
  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
    No
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Bump.

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Welcome @franciscolafe

What is the requirement to have this change of the URL?

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I’m trying to build an small kiosk. And customizing the URL will make my life easier to providing the kiosks.

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The requirement would be to have it customized, make it my own uid instead of the random string that it’s difficult to input into another device without copy-paste.-

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I managed to do this by opening the litesql3 db file for grafana and then simply editing the UID for the intended change.

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Doable but not recommended :grin: I would also submit a feature change to allow for friendly url and not some odd uid

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Already submitted, thanks for the suggestion!

Allow the public dashboard URL to be customized to the user liking · Issue #76197 · grafana/grafana (github.com)

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Hello franciscolafe, I am trying to customize the URL of the public dashboard by accessing grafana.db but when I modify the UID of the public dashboard and restart the grafana container it asks me for the username and admin and when I enter I get an invalid server error and it does not let me access. Do I have to modify somewhere else? I am a beginner at this.

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Forewarning: If you’re not familiar how a SQL Table works, I don’t think it’s wise to go and risk breaking the whole DB. I recommend you first learn how a DB Table works before editing it.

That said, here’s a quick and dirty copy-paste:

  1. Note the URL UUID:

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  2. Browse with the windows file explorer to the location:

    1. C:\Program Files\GrafanaLabs\grafana\data
    2. Create a copy/backup of the grafana.db for safe measure.
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  3. Once you open grafana.db in the SQLite browser, go to the Browse Data tab and then select the dashboard_public table (image is for reference as I ended up doing a different approach)

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Save and use the new URL defined by you.