Loading dashboards from json file

[klg]

Hello,

I was configuring my LS dashboards, and I noticed that a the the bottom of the load menu, there is an advanced button which would allow me to load a json to the dashboards. I was wondering if I could just drop a json file on the backend and have it automatically load all of my custom dashboards? If I can, I need to know how to format the json, where to put the file and what configurations may need to be changed.

Thanks in advance,
K

[mbellerue]

If you need to see the JSON format, you can export an existing dashboard and take a look at it that way. It says it is exporting a blob file, but it's JSON. However, I don't think these are actually stored on the file system. It's just generating the JSON from the dashboard configuration.

[Smithclr]

It seems to work for me. I have the same dashboardProviders section. In addition, I have the following key set:

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dashboardsConfigMaps:
  default: "grafana-dashboard"

The value grafana-dashboard is the name of a ConfigMap in the same namespace. The content looks like this:

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apiVersion: v1
data:
  gain-dashboard.json: "cut out for brevity" 
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2019-04-01T08:14:07Z"
  name: grafana-dashboard
  namespace: monitoring
  resourceVersion: "1039344"
  selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/monitoring/configmaps/grafana-dashboard
  uid: 1ec73781-5456-11e9-bfc8-42010a9c00b0

After deploying, I can see the following on the grafana container:

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$ kubectl -n monitoring exec -it grafana-68cddfcf4-kq9s5 ls /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default
gain-dashboard.json

The content of gain-dashboard.json corresponds to the content loaded into the ConfigMap.

In addition is the the dashboardProviders file in the following location:

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$ kubectl -n monitoring exec -it grafana-68cddfcf4-kq9s5 ls /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards
dashboardproviders.yaml

[Box293]

Thanks for your follow up information with detailed examples @Smithclr .