Multiple option not working for Prometheus template #repost

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I’m trying to make the include all/multiple option work for Prometheus templates and found a lead here:

But even for this dashboard, the multiple option gives an error. Any help would be highly appreciated.

http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/3-promcon-templating?orgId=1&var-custom_value=&var-jobs=node&var-disk_series=node_disk_bytes_read&var-disk_series=node_disk_bytes_written&var-disk_series=node_disk_sectors_read&var-query=up{instance%3D"demo.robustperception.io:9100",job%3D"node"}%201%201482360977000&var-datasource=demo.robustperception.io

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Did you try to use a regex operator in your prometheus query? example {instance=~"$instance_name"}

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And the dashboard you linked works great with multiple values selected:

http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/3-promcon-templating?orgId=1&var-custom_value=&var-jobs=alertmanager&var-jobs=node&var-jobs=prometheus&var-disk_series=node_disk_bytes_read&var-query=up{instance%3D"demo.robustperception.io:9090",job%3D"prometheus"}%201%201494525174000&var-datasource=demo.robustperception.io

see job variable has multiple selected and is used like job=~"$job".

The disk_series variable was wrongly configured to as it was used in the metric name, where you cannot use multiple values. Only label value filters can have multiple values.

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Yeah makes sense.

For my specific case I have metric names with hostnames in them; for example I have a metric called disk_series_node_1, disk_series_node_2…disk_series_node_n and there’s no way of knowing how many could be there.

That’s why I made a template for metric name and tried to use the include all option. So basically there’s no way of doing that in the same panel?

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No, you need to move the host name into a label for that