t0mmili / grafana-dashboards-backup

Export/import solution for Grafana dashboards

Grafana dashboards backup

Terraform based, with a bit of bash help, Grafana dashboards backup solution.

Key features

• Export dashboards and auto commit to repository of your choice.
• Import previously exported dashboards to the same or different Grafana instance.
• Works with Jenkins OTB.
• Flexible implementation allows for easy adoption to other automation servers.

Stack

tool	function
Terraform with grafana provider	export/import dashboards
bash	run Terraform commands, transform Terraform output into json files, commit dashboards to git repo
Docker	create Jenkins agent image, with necessary toolset
Jenkins	export/import tasks orchestrator

Prerequisites

• Jenkins, with Docker agent, to run export/import jobs.
• Grafana api key, to access dashboards.
• Git repo for exported dashboards, as well as ssh keys for read/write access.

Installation

1. Create copy of this repo.
2. Update Jenkins pipelines with your custom configuration, if necessary.

NOTE
Remember to modify bash scripts permissions:
git update-index --add --chmod=+x my-script.sh

3. Add Grafana and git credentials to Jenkins Credential store.
4. Add export and import as two separate Multibranch pipelines.

NOTE
Initial run of both jobs will likely fail, since job parameters need to be populated first.