Error by renaming the dashboard folder (NetworkError and Folder API error)

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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?

Grafana V10.3.3 on Linux (AWS)

  • What are you trying to achieve?

Renaming a dashboard folder

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

Just click on the pencil near the name.

  • What happened?

It failed to rename it.
It showed NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource first, then it showed Folder API error.

  • What did you expect to happen?

It should just rename the folder.

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

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Try to look at /var/log/grafana.log to understand the root cause for the Folder API error.

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Thanks for the suggestion.
After checking the grafana log file, it’s saying database is locked.

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I guess, it’s probably because that it’s running as a docker container and I put /var/lib/grafana to a volume.
In this case, what’s the best practice to rename the folder?
Great thanks in advance

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Something like, copying the database into the container and changing the names and then copying it back to the volume?

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“Database is locked” is a problem that’s causing much more issues for you than you’re really seeing. Renaming a Folder is the least one of them.

Two choices here for you: Find out why you have more than one Grafana/Application accessing the same database file (not possible for more than one application to write to the same SQLite’s file db), or migrate from SQLite to a Postgres database to have the concurrency enabled.

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what happens if you rename it using grafana api? do you still get the same issues?

Do you maybe have alert(s) tied to the folder you are modifying?

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I will give a try with api.
No. This folder has no tied alerts.

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Noticed that although I couldn’t rename the folder, but I could create a new folder and move the dashboards all to the new folder and delete the old folder.
I will go for this solution for now.
Once I have more time (free from current projects), I could try out with Postgres database