Is there a way to list all dashbaords that use a datasource in Grafana?

[amotl]

Dear Nayana,

Introduction

@nshetty

We are making changes to some of our datasources and are looking for a way to find all dashboards using these datasources.

On https://weather.hiveeyes.org/, we regularly are facing the same requirements.

@nshetty

Is there a way to list all dashboards using a datasource?

As pointed out by @svetb, Grafana itself doesn’t offer such a feature, but we implemented GitHub - panodata/grafana-wtf: Grep through all Grafana entities in the spirit of git-wtf. the other day, which exactly does

@svetb

a) Write a script that pulls each dashboard’s JSON definition via the API and does a text search for the datasource name. (probably the “right” way to do this, but requires some effort)

Details

@amotl

grafana-wtf currently sifts through all scalar values of all JSON documents for verbatim strings passed on the command line. More fancy kinds of expressions like case-insensitive search or regular expressions can be added with one of the next iterations.

We already wrote some more about this at:

• Use "grafana-wtf" to search through all entities of a Grafana instance
• How can I search for a dashboard by content (e.g. name of panel, used metric, used function)

We will be happy to hear about whether this was helpful to you. Please let us know if you need further assistance with grafana-wtf.

With kind regards,
Andreas.