Is there a way to list all dashbaords that use a datasource in Grafana?

[amotl]

Dear Nayana,

Introduction

@nshetty

We are making changes to some of our datasources and are looking for a way to find all dashboards using these datasources.

On https://weather.hiveeyes.org/, we regularly are facing the same requirements.

@nshetty

Is there a way to list all dashboards using a datasource?

As pointed out by @svetb, Grafana itself doesn’t offer such a feature, but we implemented GitHub - panodata/grafana-wtf: Grep through all Grafana entities in the spirit of git-wtf. the other day, which exactly does

@svetb

a) Write a script that pulls each dashboard’s JSON definition via the API and does a text search for the datasource name. (probably the “right” way to do this, but requires some effort)

Details

@amotl

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.

We already wrote some more about this at:

• https://localhost:3000/t/use-grafana-wtf-to-search-through-all-entities-of-a-grafana-instance/13828
• https://localhost:3000/t/how-can-i-search-for-a-dashboard-by-content-e-g-name-of-panel-used-metric-used-function/5129

We will be happy to hear about whether this was helpful to you. Please let us know if you need further assistance with grafana-wtf.

With kind regards,
Andreas.