How to serve grafana dashboard.json

[xoxys]

I tried to just serve a local dashboard.json file:

❯ grafanactl resources serve grafana/ceph/
WARN failed to read file component=fs_reader path=grafana/ceph/upstream_dashboard.json err="parse error in '': Object 'Kind' is missing in '{\n  \"__inputs\": [],\n  \"__requires\": 

Is this not supported?

[radiohead]

Hi @xoxys, apologies for the late reply!

To serve dashboards, one has to use the new dashboards API format (you can take a look at the as-code hands-on labs tutorial – https://github.com/grafana/dashboards-as-code-workshop/blob/main/part-two-golang-starter/api.go#L16-L26 for reference).

If you have an existing JSON from the old dashboards API, you can transform it into the new format by doing something like this:

{
  "apiVersion": "dashboard.grafana.app/v1beta1",
  "kind": "Dashboard",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "my-dashboard" # the UID of your dashboard
  },
  "spec": {
    # add the contents of your existing dashboard.json here!
  }
}