Grep through all Grafana entities in the spirit of git-wtf
Project description
grafana-wtf
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grafana-wtf - grep through all Grafana entities in the spirit of git-wtf.
Synopsis
Search Grafana API for string “weatherbase”.
grafana-wtf find weatherbase
Display 50 most recent changes across all dashboards.
grafana-wtf log --number=50
Run with Docker:
# Access Grafana instance on localhost, without authentication. docker run --rm -it --env GRAFANA_URL="http://host.docker.internal:3000" ghcr.io/panodata/grafana-wtf grafana-wtf info # Access Grafana instance with authentication. docker run --rm -it --env GRAFANA_URL="https://daq.grafana.org/grafana" --env GRAFANA_TOKEN="eyJrIjoiWHg...dGJpZCI6MX0=" ghcr.io/panodata/grafana-wtf grafana-wtf info
Screenshots
grafana-wtf find
grafana-wtf log
Setup
Install grafana-wtf
pip install grafana-wtf
Configure Grafana
Please take these steps to create an API key with your Grafana instance:
Go to https://daq.example.org/grafana/org/apikeys.
Choose “New API Key”.
Key name: grafana-wtf
Role: Admin
From the output curl -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiWHg...dGJpZCI6MX0=" ..., please take note of the Bearer token. This is your Grafana API key.
Usage
Before running grafana-wtf, define URL and access token of your Grafana instance:
export GRAFANA_URL=https://daq.example.org/grafana/ export GRAFANA_TOKEN=eyJrIjoiWHg...dGJpZCI6MX0=
General information
# Display a bunch of meta information and statistics. grafana-wtf info --format=yaml # Display Grafana version. grafana-wtf info --format=json | jq -r '.grafana.version'
Explore data sources
How to find unused data sources?
# Display all data sources and the dashboards using them, as well as unused data sources. grafana-wtf explore datasources --format=yaml # Display names of unused datasources as a flat list. grafana-wtf explore datasources --format=json | jq -r '.unused[].datasource.name'
Explore dashboards
How to find dashboards which use non-existing data sources?
# Display some details of all dashboards, including names of missing data sources.
grafana-wtf explore dashboards --format=yaml
# Display only dashboards which have missing data sources, along with their names.
grafana-wtf explore dashboards --format=json | jq '.[] | select( .datasources_missing ) | .dashboard + {ds_missing: .datasources_missing[] | [.name]}'
Searching for strings
Find the string weatherbase throughout all dashboards and data sources:
grafana-wtf find weatherbase
Replacing strings
Replace all occurrences of ldi_v2 with ldi_v3 within dashboard with UID _JJ22OZZk:
grafana-wtf --select-dashboard=_JJ22OZZk replace ldi_v2 ldi_v3
Display edit history
Watching out for recent editing activity on any dashboards?
# Display 50 most recent changes across all dashboards. grafana-wtf log --number=50
Examples
For discovering more command line parameters and their arguments, please invoke grafana-wtf --help and have a look at grafana-wtf examples.
Development
git clone https://github.com/panodata/grafana-wtf cd grafana-wtf make test
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