monitoring dashboards

backup of grafana dashboards

setup

The nodejs package "wizzy" uses the grafana api to extract the dashboards and other data.

Install

aerickson found this version was needed to get correct folders: #3

npm install -g github:johnsudaar/wizzy#971a8a1186d9b3036c87f96a339c4d9680d5b866

Configure

create conf/wizzy.conf with auth:

wizzy set grafana url https://grafana.fqdn
wizzy set grafana username GRAFANA_USERNAME
wizzy set grafana password GRAFANA_PASSWORD

backup process

rm -rf dashboards #remove to not duplicate renamed or moved
wizzy import dashboards
git add dashboards
git commit

alternatives

• https://github.com/ysde/grafana-backup-tool
• Manually export and commit the json for dashboards
• https://github.com/esnet/gdg
  • recommended by wizzy authors