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grafana_dashboard - Manage Grafana dashboards

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

  • Create, update, delete, export Grafana dashboards via API.

Parameters

Parameter
Choices/Defaults
Comments
grafana_api_key
The Grafana API key.
If set, grafana_user and grafana_password will be ignored.
grafana_password
Default:
admin
The Grafana API password.
grafana_url
required
The Grafana URL.
grafana_user
Default:
admin
The Grafana API user.
message
Set a commit message for the version history.
Only used when state is present.
org_id
Default:
yes
The Grafana Organisation ID where the dashboard will be imported / exported.
Not used when grafana_api_key is set, because the grafana_api_key only belongs to one organisation..
overwrite
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Override existing dashboard when state is present.
path
The path to the json file containing the Grafana dashboard to import or export.
slug
slug of the dashboard. It's the friendly url name of the dashboard.
When state is present, this parameter can override the slug in the meta section of the json file.
If you want to import a json dashboard exported directly from the interface (not from the api), you have to specify the slug parameter because there is no meta section in the exported json.
state
required
    Choices:
  • absent
  • export
  • present ←
State of the dashboard.
validate_certs
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples

- name: Import Grafana dashboard foo
  grafana_dashboard:
    grafana_url: http://grafana.company.com
    grafana_api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXX
    state: present
    message: Updated by ansible
    overwrite: yes
    path: /path/to/dashboards/foo.json

- name: Export dashboard
  grafana_dashboard:
    grafana_url: http://grafana.company.com
    grafana_api_key: XXXXXXXXXXXX
    state: export
    slug: foo
    path: /path/to/dashboards/foo.json

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key
Returned
Description
slug
string
success
slug of the created / deleted / exported dashboard.

Sample:
foo


Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

  • Thierry Sallé (@tsalle)

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