Lvl=eror msg="failed to load dashboard from " logger=provisioning.dashboard type=file name=default file=/var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default/Deployments-Dashboard.json error="invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value"

I get this error after configuring dashboard provider.

my dashboards are hosted on github pages.

lvl=eror msg="failed to load dashboard from " logger=provisioning.dashboard type=file name=default file=/var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default/Nodes-Dashboard.json error=“invalid character ‘<’ looking for beginning of value”

lvl=eror msg="failed to load dashboard from " logger=provisioning.dashboard type=file name=default file=/var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default/System-dashboard.json error=“invalid character ‘<’ looking for beginning of value”

lvl=eror msg="failed to load dashboard from " logger=provisioning.dashboard type=file name=default file=/var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default/Deployments-Dashboard.json error=“invalid character ‘<’ looking for beginning of value”

Is anyone familiar with this error? if so can you share with me your experience on how you got it fixed?

When I load these dashboards manually into grafana, they work fine.

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Hi did you solve this issue? I got the same problem

I had same issue in Kubernetes environment
with logging in to the pod, just removed dashboard file in the /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/ and then redeployed dashboard

How to solve the problem?