I just had to migrate my set-up and when exporting my dashboards, I saw an option in the dashboard export menu that said “V2 asset” or something like that and allowed me to choose between YAML and JSON dashboards. I prefer YAML, so that’s how I chose to export them.
Now, it turns out that I cannot import them in YAML. I don’t know what version of Grafana I had, but I don’t see an “import YAML” option and YAML to JSON translators are not getting the job done either.
Does anyone know whether there is a version of Grafana that allows importing and exporting YAML? I am sure there is at least one that allows for YAML dashboard exports.
Thank you for the tip, but the migration is already botched. My question now is: Does anyone know whether there is a version of Grafana that allows importing and exporting YAML?
Dashboard JSON schema v2 is an experimental feature. Engineering and on-call support is not available. Documentation is either limited or not provided outside of code comments. No SLA is provided.
I guess it is some bug/misconfiguration that’s visible in the UI of 12.3.
It’s easy to convert YAML to JSON (random link Transform YAML into JSON - Online YAML Tools).
As it is mentioned in the doc, it is experimental feature, so you can expect many problems. That’s the reason why good admins have backups ready - they can restore working state when something is going wrong.
But it is not mentioned anywhere on the interface that it is an experimental feature. 0 warnings and activated by default. So, how would any user who isn’t reading updates to the documentation or the code know about it?
These exports are exactly that, the backups. So, what do we want a backup for that we cannot restore?
And as stated above: the YAML - JSON converters are not doing the trick.
To me the answers you provide are hinting, but not satisfactory.
