Importing playlists

[lanmarti]

Is there a way to import playlists similar to how dashboards are imported through .json files, or are there any plans to provide such a way in the future?

I've tried looking around on how to persist playlists for a stateless Grafana deployment, but it seems that from Grafana's side importing and exporting playlists is rather limited. The only decent documentation I've found so far is by use of the HTTP API: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/playlist/#create-a-playlist
The API is very straightforward and provides a (temporary) workaround for me, but being able to import playlists through jsonnet patches would streamline the deployment process.

[brancz]

I'm not aware of such a thing, that's probably something we first want to discuss with the Grafana team themselves first.

[lanmarti]

I found a discussion issue grafana/grafana#11842 as well as a refused PR grafana/grafana#19040

Quote from the comments on the PR:

We're not saying that we don't want to support provisioning of everything, we're just saying that right now adding additional provisioning support in same way as existing dashboards, data sources and alert notification channels adds quite a big impact on core implementation What's lacking is more proper API's internally to make provisioning a first class citizen in the code base, but without affecting any bits in the core (domain).

I'll close this issue for now, as it seems provisioning playlists won't be supported in the near future.