How can I search for a dashboard by content (e.g. name of panel, used metric, used function)

[amotl]

Dear Uwe,

we probably experience the same need for taking care of Grafana instances with a growing number of data sources and dashboards after a few years of usage. So, to answer a question like “How to maintain this beast?”, you can now https://localhost:3000/t/use-grafana-wtf-to-search-through-all-entities-of-a-grafana-instance/13828.

Enjoy:

GitHub - panodata/grafana-wtf: Grep through all Grafana entities in the...

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It probably resembles very much what you have been aiming at:

@udgrafana

At the moment we are thinking about using the API + jq (cmdline tool to pretty print JSON) and grep for this information.

• With /api/search we can find the internal dashboard-uri of all dashboards.
• With /api/dashboards/dashboard-uri we can get all panel names and formulas.

Yeah, going to the API is the approach grafana-wtf is taking, as this feels most generic and naturally.

@udgrafana

It would be very helpful if we could do two things:

• find a dasboard by the name of a panel contained in the dashboard
• find a dashboard or even a panel by the name of the metric or function name or an alias name or in general any string we used in the editor

Exactly. grafana-wtf currently sifts through all scalar values of all JSON documents for verbatim strings passed on the command line. More fancy kinds of expressions like case-insensitive search or regular expressions can be added with one of the next iterations.

Hope this helps.

With kind regards,
Andreas.