Docker provisioned dashboard not showing up

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Hi @youn98,

Thanks for opening this post.

There are certain steps to provision a dashboard into Grafana while using Docker (docker-compose v3).

I also played around with it today and it seems to be working for me so I will try to explain it step by step and it should work for you (maybe you need v.small modification in adjusting your path etc.)

Step 1

While using the Docker image, there are some default config paths as defined here. For us the important ones are;

Setting Default value
GF_PATHS_DATA /var/lib/grafana
GF_PATHS_PROVISIONING /etc/grafana/provisioning

Step 2

Create a directory let’s say my-grafana-dashboard and inside it, define the following files and folders (here is my tree command output);

[root@docker my-grafana-dashboard]# tree
├── docker-compose.yml
└── provisioning
    ├── dashboards
    │   ├── default.yml
    │   └── my-dashboard.json
    └── datasources

Step 3

For the file my-dashboard.json put the JSON data of the dashboard. For e.g., I put a telegraf dashboard data after downloading the JSON from this link (you can put any other or your own working one).

Step 4

As per documentation we need to create a file inside the provisioning directory as default.yml and there put the most minimal required data. In my case I put as per documentation i.e.;

apiVersion: 1

providers:
  # <string> an unique provider name. Required
  - name: 'TEST TELEGRAF Provising test'
    # <int> Org id. Default to 1
    orgId: 1
    # <string> name of the dashboard folder.
    folder: 'Service'
    # <string> folder UID. will be automatically generated if not specified
    folderUid: ''
    # <string> provider type. Default to 'file'
    type: file
    # <int> how often Grafana will scan for changed dashboards
    updateIntervalSeconds: 10
    # <bool> allow updating provisioned dashboards from the UI
    # allowUiUpdates: false #you can set this value as per your need
    options:
      # <string, required> path to dashboard files on disk. Required when using the 'file' type
      # though as per the documentation it says that the path for Linux is /var/lib/grafana 
      # but in docker (see step 1) it is like this.
      path: /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards

You can find the complete details here but for us, this minimum config is fine to make a test.

Step 5

Now define the following code in the docker-compose.yml file

version: "3"
services:
  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana-oss:9.1.0
    container_name: grafana
    # if you are running as root then set it to 0 else find the right id with the id command
    user: "0"
    volumes:
    # defining our main config parameters for provisioning if we have datasource
    # commented it out as for now we do not need it
    # - ./provisioning/datasources:/etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources/
   # defining our main config parameters for provisioning for dashboards
    - ./provisioning/dashboards:/etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards/
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    restart: unless-stopped

Step 6

Finally, run the command

[root@docker my-grafana-dashboard]# docker-compose up -d

Wait for a few seconds and then you should see the dashboard

If you run into any problems, then check the logs via the command:

[root@docker my-grafana-dashboard]# docker-compose logs grafana

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