Grafana Sync

Syncs dashboards between Grafana instances. Lifts the burden of migrating changes between environment instances by hand. Unleashes the power of Linux command-line tools on Grafana config files.

Tested against Grafana 6.

Installation and Usage

Suggested workflow is:

• for each separately deployed project create a repo based off of a sample_repo and head to it

  cp sample_repo ../mars_shuttle
  cd ../mars_shuttle
  

• install GrafanaSync locally (with e.g. asdf)

  asdf install
  gem install bundler -v 2.2.16
  bundle
  

  or globally

  gem install grafana_sync
  

• adjust config.rb to suit your needs. For each environment there has to be specified Grafana URL and Grafana folder. One environment (say "staging") is tweaked manually through Grafana web-interface, optionally stored in a VCS and then deployed to other environments (say "production").
• tweak manually staging Grafana through web-interface to fit your needs
• fetch staging Grafana configs

  grafync staging pull
  

• optionally review changes and commit
• see what are the changes to be applied to production

  grafync production diff
  

  same with paging

  grafync production diff | less -R
  

• apply Grafana configs to production

  grafync production push