You have a staging infrastructure and a production infrastructure? Wouldn't you like to store your monitoring configurations in a single place? Wouldn't you like to use "infra as code" to get versionning, leave an audit trail, back-up your configurations, etc.?
If you answered yes to any of those questions, this tool is for you!
In short, dashex is a command-line tool that allows you to:
- save/export your monitoring configuration to disk in a normalized format;
- load/import your monitoring configuration from disk to your monitoring infrastructure.
The storage on disk is a text-based format designed to be "easily" diffeable, allowing you to review/audit changes. You can store this in Git to submit monitoring configuration changes as pull requests, have your peers review your changes, deploy them as post-commit hooks, etc.
This project uses permissive licensing. Nobody is paid to support/maintain this software. You may request support in the issue tracker, but be prepared to submit a pull request to fix bugs and/or submit improvements.
The tool allows exchange of the following Grafana objects:
- Data sources
- Dashboards
Use dashex pull-grafana ... to download the configuration to disk.
Typically, you would then store it in source control or back it up somewhere.
Use dashex push-grafana ... to upload the configuration to the remote
instance. Typically, you will point this to a snapshot from your source
control.