How do I remove the gettingstarted plugin from the home dashboard

#1

I am attempting to upgrade from 3.1.1 to 4.2 Everything seem to have worked, except the gettingstarted plugin is automatically inserted in the home dashboard.

How do I prevent this? There does not seem to be a configuration option to disable this behaviour.

Thanks
Mike

#2

By clicking the x icon in the top right corner of the panel, then it will never be shown again

#3

So, there is no way to prevent the “getting started” panel from ever being displayed, correct?

I am distributing pre-configured Grafana instances and I fear this will confuse my users. I guess I could seed the database with a bogus user and include a “do-nothing” plugin, but that seems a bit hacky.

I would like to suggest that you make this configurable.

#4

It is only shown to admins, but if you want to pre configure it you need to create a user with the correct helpflags settings (set via api or in database user table)

#5

A workaround was proposed on GitHub:

sqlite3 /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db "update user set help_flags1 = 1 where login = 'admin';"

It’s not great but it works for me. My use case: want to provision a working install + dashboard from scratch automatically for each region without getting this panel again with every launch.