Git Workflow for Dashboard As Code management with Grafana Pro Online

ehuggins · October 29, 2021, 3:12pm

What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
Currently Grafana Pro Online 8.2.2
What are you trying to achieve?
Automate the creation and update of Grafana Pro Online content using Git Workflow
How are you trying to achieve it?
I’m not yet - still researching.

Q: Are there any published helper tools that can be used to push Grafana Dashboard As Code via Grafana APIs. CICD via Azure DevOps or even GitHub Actions would be ideal. External tools would also be acceptable.

niceguysan · October 31, 2021, 2:01pm

this might have been very useful.

mattabrams · October 31, 2021, 3:55pm

@niceguysan @ehuggins one of the Grafana Team’s big endeavors right now is to properly schematize dashboards so that they can really leverage a GitOp / AsCode workflow.

In the meantime, there is a patchwork of alternatives. I’ve never used it, but there is this tool:

mattabrams · October 31, 2021, 5:00pm

Oh, I almost forgot, this is a great resource:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/crisidev/bd52bdcc7f029be2f295

grafana-dashboard-exporter

KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXX
HOST="https://metrics.crisidev.org"

mkdir -p dashboards && for dash in $(curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" $HOST/api/search\?query\=\& |tr ']' '\n' |cut -d "," -f 5 |grep slug |cut -d\" -f 4); do 
  curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" $HOST/api/dashboards/db/$dash > dashboards/$dash.json 
done

system · October 29, 2022, 3:13pm

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