# Grafana prompts me to save every time I change between dashboards **URL:** \ **Category:** Installation\ **Created:** [May 26, 2022, 7:30am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248 "2022-05-26T07:30:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![codeforcer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@codeforcer](https://community.grafana.com/u/codeforcer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 7:30am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/1 "2022-05-26T07:30:56Z")
Every time I change between dashboards Grafana asks me whether I want to save, even after making no changes whatever, not even a time range. It’s getting really frustrating. The version change comparison just says: ```auto "iteration": 1653549498246, "iteration": 1653549753562, ``` Or sometimes even something more trivial like version 8 → version 9 How can I stop this behaviour? ---
**Author:** ![jangaraj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jangaraj/32/39197_2.png) [@jangaraj](https://community.grafana.com/u/jangaraj)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 8:36am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/2 "2022-05-26T08:36:29Z")
I guess you upgraded your Grafana recently. Am I right? Now Grafana is just trying yo update dashboard models. ---
**Author:** ![grant2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/grant2/32/42281_2.png) [@grant2](https://community.grafana.com/u/grant2)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 8:42am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/3 "2022-05-26T08:42:41Z")
Just to understand this issue better, if one answers “Yes” when prompted (even though no changes were made), then the prompt will go away? AFAIK, this did not happen with previous upgrades of Grafana. ---
**Author:** ![codeforcer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@codeforcer](https://community.grafana.com/u/codeforcer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/4 "2022-05-26T22:05:14Z")
This is the first time I’ve used Grafana, I installed the latest version and I’m using the cloud version. I’m not certain, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that my dashboards have statistics on them, and every time the dashboard loads it calculates the statistic (and perhaps saves it) ---
**Author:** ![codeforcer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@codeforcer](https://community.grafana.com/u/codeforcer)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/5 "2022-05-26T22:06:16Z")
If I answer either Yes or Discard the prompt disappears, and answering Yes doesn’t seem to lead to any actual changes. I’ve never used a previous version of Grafana, this is a clean installation using the latest cloud version ---
**Author:** ![bsod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@bsod](https://community.grafana.com/u/bsod)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/6 "2022-06-08T10:58:45Z")
Hi, I have the same issue here, running the OSS version of Grafana v8.5.5 (d32ae18909). I believe it may happen only when I load a “long” dashboard and scroll it, then when I navigate away from it I’m prompted to save it. If I do, the json diff of the 2 versions is pretty short: ![Screenshot 2022-06-08 at 12-58-06 Interfaces - Grafana](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/8/9/89bad7e8c5424f3aaff862b2d959c9babbb23be5.png) ---
**Author:** ![codeforcer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@codeforcer](https://community.grafana.com/u/codeforcer)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/7 "2022-06-08T11:26:55Z")
Yep, sounds like the exact same problem as me. My version diff looks exactly like that ---
**Author:** ![bsod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@bsod](https://community.grafana.com/u/bsod)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/8 "2022-06-28T15:02:13Z")
I didn’t noticed the release earlier, but it seems fixed with v8.5.6 🙏 thank you! ---
**Author:** ![jexs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eada6e/32.png) [@jexs](https://community.grafana.com/u/jexs)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2022, 5:58am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/9 "2022-07-19T05:58:44Z")
Any updates on this being fixed in 9.x? I’m currently running 9.0.3 and still having this. Quite frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![patrickconwell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/patrickconwell/32/19396_2.png) [@patrickconwell](https://community.grafana.com/u/patrickconwell)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/10 "2022-09-12T21:17:08Z")
Any updates on this issue? I’m running Grafana v9.0.7 (eed942a502) with Geomap 5.0.0. I have narrowed the problem down to the Geomap panel. If I delete the panel, the dashboard works fine. If I include a Geomap, it constantly asks to save changes. If I click “save changes”, it says there are no changes to save. EDIT: Not a fix, but a workaround is to set the dashboard to “read-only”. ---
**Author:** ![jasonmallory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/jasonmallory/32/36686_2.png) [@jasonmallory](https://community.grafana.com/u/jasonmallory)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2023, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-prompts-me-to-save-every-time-i-change-between-dashboards/66248/11 "2023-08-05T15:58:21Z")
Still happens in Grafana 10