[Feature request] playlist provisioning

[tk3fftk]

I'm using the feature of provisioning dashboards and datasources. These are good for deploying to kubernetes. I want to use provisioning playlist too 😄

[owenbattye]

I do would love this, its more important to me that provisioning users. I now have everything else I use provisioned and just recreate a docker container to host grafana. If I had playlists provisioned I'd have nothing to recreate by hand every time.

[asiekkowa]

Is there any possibility of that feature? It would be great have definition of playlist as a code.
I want to configure everything in Grafana in GitOps way and feature of Playlist as config file is really needed.

[Ofinka]

Hi, I would be grateful for integration of this feature as well. It is quite annoying to create the playlist again with every redeployment.

[juliadenker1981]

Hi, I am provisioning dashboards and datasources and would really need to provision playlists as well!
The feature is really needed!

[ThinkBriK]

Same here, we're using playlists to create views for Raspberries plgged to TVs !

[jfcabral]

I too believe this would be very useful :)
Otherwise we end up with nasty workarounds... :/

[olivierlemasle]

Hi, I'd like to contribute this feature.

However, there's currently two missing points:

• Playlists have no unique identifier (except internal id). You can have multiple playlists with the same name, even if a single organization. In order to be able to mimic the provisioning of datasources or notifiers, adding a uid would be necessary.
• In a playlist, referencing a dashboard uses either dashboard_by_id or dashboard_by_tag. I suppose that if dashboards are configured using provisioning, adding a dashboard_by_uid would be more useful.

Any thoughts?

[joangaborit]

Hi,

I would like to know when the functionality of provisioning grafana playlists through github?
We are working in infra as code and this is a feature that could help us a lot.

Thank you for your answer.

[olivierlemasle]

@joangaborit I did contribute a Pull Request for provisioning grafana playlists (#19040), but it was refused and closed (see comments)
It does not seem it will be implemented anytime soon!

[andothomas]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but is there a timeline for creating playlists under the Playlist API with support for providing a UID? This is the only obstacle in writing a workaround provisioning script. Currently (while not explicitly supported), providing a UID duplicates the playlist with a new UID, which is not the desired behavior for those who would like to provide one.

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[kenske]

This is still relevant. We are using an external script to create the playlists as a workaround, but it would be nice to use the same mechanism as dashboards.

[jfcabral]

This is still relevant. We are using an external script to create the playlists as a workaround, but it would be nice to use the same mechanism as dashboards.

Same here, it is a shame to see this not being implemented after so many years. Specially after @olivierlemasle making a contribution to add that. 😕

[schroedermatthias]

This is still relevant. We are using an external script to create the playlists as a workaround, but it would be nice to use the same mechanism as dashboards.

@kenske Would you mind providing your script? Maybe this could be helpful also for others :)

[kenske]

Here is my workaround script:

https://gist.github.com/kenske/d10f34de0e63e4cf2efa225724baef20