Import doesn't work without manual edit of exported dashboard

Grafana
1

When I use the API to export a dashboard, the json comes back in the following format:

    {
    	"meta": {
    		"type": "db",
    		"canSave": false,
    		"canEdit": false,
    		"canStar": true,
    		"slug": "name",
    		"expires": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    		"created": "2017-11-30T15:34:02Z",
    		"updated": "2017-11-30T15:34:02Z",
    		"updatedBy": "user",
    		"createdBy": "user",
    		"version": 1
    	},
    	"dashboard": {
    		"annotations": {},
    		"editable": true,
    		"gnetId": null,
    		"graphTooltip": 0,
    		"hideControls": false,
    		"id": 16,
    		"links": [],
    		"refresh": "10s",
    		"templating": {},
    		"time": {},
    		"timepicker": {},
    		"timezone": "",
    		"title": "name",
    		"version": 1
    	}
    }

Importing this json fails. It’s not that there’s an error, it’s just that the new dashboard doesn’t include the data from the json.
If I change the json data to be of the format:

	    {
    		"annotations": {},
    		"editable": true,
    		"gnetId": null,
    		"graphTooltip": 0,
    		"hideControls": false,
    		"id": 16,
    		"links": [],
    		"refresh": "10s",
    		"templating": {},
    		"time": {},
    		"timepicker": {},
    		"timezone": "",
    		"title": "name",
    		"version": 1
    	}

Than the import works fine.

It seems what happens is that the previous example creates a dashboard that has dashboard.dashboard
I see there’s some nice changes in v5.0.0 that make things better in general, but I’m wondering if this is already known/resolved after 4.6.3

2

Hi,

That’s not an export, just a HTTP GET from the api. You need to use the UI to export a dashboard.

Marcus

You need to use

3

ok, that makes reasonable sense.

do you know, which format does wizzy export dashboards retrieve them in?

4

Wizzy will do HTTP GET’s when exporting

Marcus

5

Are there any plans for an export API? I’m trying to automate the backing up and restoring of dashboards.

6

No. You can easily write a script using the dashboard search api and then fetching each dashboard thru dashboard api.