How to upload dashboards as .json files to kubernetes via helm

Grafana Installation
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@gnutakki good to hear it is working! I was also looking into sidecars but for me this added complexity I didn’t want… very glad to have been of some help anyway.

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@missswapna / @gnutakki Thanks a lot for the help. I managed to get it working using these values: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guivin/terraform-helm-example/0.1.0/templates/grafana-values.yaml

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Hy, i have followed the same method like the above adding a configmap in the same namespace of the json file but the dashboard is not persisting even though what might be the issue.

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Hy, i have followed the same method like the above adding a configmap in the same namespace of the Json file but the dashboard is not persisting even though what might be the issue.

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can you help this @missswapna @gnutakki

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@vallabhanenisai1999 are you able to give more detail on your configuration and also follow the bullet points I posted above to troubleshoot, then will be happy to help. Thanks!

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I’m just wondering how you guys manage to load multiple dashboards into Grafana without exceeding the maximum of 1MiB for the ConfigMap size.

Yes I know, we are able to create multiple ConfigMaps but that’s really not a good idea for us because we have lots of dashboards for different teams. For example, Team Alpha has created 5 different dashboards for their specific microservices and we don’t want to create different ConfigMaps for just one team because of that 1MiB maximum size.

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is there any way to provision dashboards (and alerts) without using k8s-sidecar at all or bypassing it?

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Yes we have now hit this limit and so are using the kiwigrid sidecar. Its actually not as complicated as I thought to set up, and it can be used for dashboards AND datasources (my initial concern de to that warning in my earlier post). So we use this now;

grafana:
  sidecar:
    dashboards:
      enabled: true
      searchNamespace: 'grafana'
      provider:
        name: sidecarProvider
        orgid: 1
        folder: ''
        type: file
        disableDelete: false
        allowUiUpdates: true
        foldersFromFilesStructure: false
    datasources:
      enabled: true
      label: "grafana_datasource"
      labelValue: ""

And the dashboards are loaded as individual config maps… the datasources as secrets - they must have the respective labels;

grafana_dashboard: "1"
grafana_datasource: "1"

Cheers.