Exporting dashboard metadata through the UI

[bljordan]

What Grafana version are you using?

5.0.4

What datasource are you using?

Prometheus, Cloudwatch, Graphite

What OS are you running grafana on?

CoreOS

What did you do?

We are using the terraform provider for grafana (https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-grafana).

It expects to be passed json blobs that only contain the dashboard object, but not the meta object. Additionally, the dashboard config -> view json only gives you the dashboard part, not the meta part. The API provides the whole object.
{ "meta": { "type": "db", "canSave": true, "canEdit": true, "canAdmin": false, "canStar": true, "slug": "dashboard-name", "url": "/d/XckjVRNik/dashboard-name", "expires": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "created": "2018-06-13T20:50:54Z", "updated": "2018-06-13T21:19:15Z", "updatedBy": "bljordan", "createdBy": "Anonymous", "version": 2, "hasAcl": false, "isFolder": false, "folderId": 82, "folderTitle": "dashboard-name", "folderUrl": "/dashboards/f/kdhl-0Sik/dashboard-name" }, "dashboard": { "annotations": { "list": [ { <snip>

What was the expected result?

The request: It'd be nice if we could get the entire object including metadata out of the UI.

What happened instead?

Only the dashboard is provided through the UI.

References

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-grafana/issues/23

[marefr]

Use the api instead. If you use chrome dev tools network tab you can also see the full payload in UI when loading a dashboard.