Import Grafana dashboards - Chronosphere Documentation

You can export dashboards from Grafana as JSON, then import them into Chronosphere as classic dashboards. For steps on exporting a dashboard from Grafana, see its documentation.

Classic dashboard API endpoints are not available for organizations on standard dashboards. Requests to these endpoints return an error. To manage dashboards programmatically in these environments, use the standard dashboard endpoints. For information about your organization’s dashboard configuration, contact Chronosphere Support.

Chronosphere supports dashboards exported from Grafana versions up to 7.5. Dashboards exported from newer versions of Grafana might not be importable without modification.

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To import a Grafana dashboard in the Observability Platform interface, see import a dashboard.

You need Chronoctl installed and configured. Read the Chronoctl documentation for more details.

From a directory of Grafana dashboard JSON files, run chronoctl convert grafana to write Chronoctl YAML to a file:
```
chronoctl convert grafana -D <DIRECTORY> > <DASHBOARDS FILE.YML>
```
Replace DIRECTORY with the path that contains the JSON files, and replace DASHBOARDS FILE.YML with the output filename.
Optional: Add the --graphite-datasource option to the convert grafana command for dashboards that use a Graphite data source.
Apply the YAML to import the dashboards:
```
chronoctl apply -f DASHBOARDS FILE.YML
```
Replace DASHBOARDS FILE.YML with the same output filename you used with convert grafana.

To import a Grafana dashboard using Terraform:

Declare a chronosphere_classic_dashboard resource in a Terraform file and provide a resource name. For example, the following code creates a dashboard that Terraform refers to as kubelet and Chronosphere associates with a specific collection:

resource "chronosphere_classic_dashboard" "kubelet" {
  # Reference to the collection to which the alert belongs
  collection_id = chronosphere_bucket.service.id

  # Inlined Grafana dashboard JSON. Note the inlined service_name variable in the definition
  dashboard_json = <<EOF
{
  "title": "${var.service_name} Overview",
  // ...
}
EOF
}

Add the Grafana dashboard JSON inline as the content of the dashboard_json field. If the Grafana dashboard sets the uid field, the Terraform provider ignores it and assigns a unique identifier.
Use terraform apply to apply the Terraform file and create the resource.