We are bringing up a new instance of Grafana to modernize our infrastructure, moving from pure Docker based installation into Kubernetes environment. From what I can find in documentation, the only thing that could be exported/imported are dashboards. Is there a way to easily migrate data (datasou…

Depends on what database you’re using for storing Grafana’s configuration like dashboards, users etc and/or if you’re planning to switch database. If you’re not planning to switch you’ll usually take a database backup and restore it for your new Grafana instance - it’s important here that you run th…

hi all. this topic seems to be old, but i faced with similar situation. we are using oracle database/sql query for the most dashboards and don’t have plan to switch database. basically all of our dashboards live in an instance(old), and now we since we created our own instance(new), we would like …

For grafana backend are you using sqlite or something else?

So this is not the dashboard data but the database grafana itself is running on. You can see this in your ini file

interesting, how to locate that file? our instance running on gaiaclould. i looked to find (/usr/local/etc/grafana/grafana.ini) which provided in ( Configure Grafana | Grafana documentation ) and could not find it. second qus: once find it, then what to do?

[image] ahmadmmumtaz123: gaiaclould Who installed this instance on gaia? what os is it installed on?

I don’t have enough information on that since the whole configuration process done by gaia/grafana team, but base on the url, i see all of them contain with gaiacloud, so I think the instance hosted on gaia paltform.

unless someone here knows about that hosting service, you are going to have to call them and find out.

so they confirmed that the instance running on gaiacloud and backend db is mysql.

Migrate Grafana data to new instance

ahmadmmumtaz123 September 21, 2023, 8:37pm 16

i saw you replied here and give them another approach API to get dashboards and Panels?
is this maybe something i can try?

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