[stable/grafana] - Sidecar not importing dashboards - bug ?

[mprzygrodzki]

Hello everyone, i've started using official Helm chart for Grafana, and i'm facing problem with automatic dashboard import from JSON files. Inside Helm chart i've added dir called dashboards where i've some custom dashboards in .json format. I've added also a task to created ConfigMap based on those files - and until this point everythin is correct.

As far as i understood reading docs etc, if i wan't to automatically import dashboard I should enable Sidecar in values. I've added to my custom ConfigMap with dashboard a label for sidecar to identify dashboard correctly like below:

sidecar:
  image: kiwigrid/k8s-sidecar:0.0.3
  imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
  resources:
#   limits:
#     cpu: 100m
#     memory: 100Mi
#   requests:
#     cpu: 50m
#     memory: 50Mi
  dashboards:
    enabled: true
    # label that the configmaps with dashboards are marked with
    label:
      dashboard: grafana
    # folder in the pod that should hold the collected dashboards
    folder: /var/lib/grafana/temp

Looking at the starting POD i see in logs that whole bunch of configmaps are being scanned by sidecar, but unfortunately my dashboard aren't visible in Grafana. I'm using latest chart version. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong ?

Of if there's another way to auto import dashboards ( from json files ) while deploying release how it's possible to do it ? I'm totally blind at the moment.

Regards, Maciej

[monotek]

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[monotek]

@Tim-Smyth can you have a look please...

[pulledtim]

Hi @mprzygrodzki , could you please add some logs from the dashboard sidecar please?

[rekcah78]

seem like this one #6450
i'm also facing with this problem

log :

/etc/grafana/download_dashboards.sh:
line 9: can't create /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default/aggregated-master-metrics-dashboard.json: nonexistent directory

extract my values:

dashboardProviders:
  dashboardproviders.yaml:
    apiVersion: 1
    providers:
    - name: 'default'
      orgId: 1
      folder: ''
      type: file
      disableDeletion: false
      updateIntervalSeconds: 15
      editable: true
      options:
        path: /var/lib/grafana/default/dashboards

dashboards:
  default:
    deployment-dashboard:
      url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Oxalide-Team-2/grafana-dashboard/master/raw/aggregated-master-metrics-dashboard.json
    ...

[rekcah78]

@mprzygrodzki
This PR #6815 fix the problem,
edit your values and change the path of your provider:

dashboardProviders:
  dashboardproviders.yaml:
    apiVersion: 1
    providers:
    - name: 'default'
      ...
      options:
        path: /var/lib/grafana/default/dashboards -> path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default
```

[mprzygrodzki]

@rekcah78 , thanks for the tip, will try to take a look on this when i'll get free while.

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[thedodd]

Just in case anyone else runs into this, @rekcah78's recommendation fixed things. In case the suggested change seemed cryptic, they are indicating that the new value for the options.path value should be set to /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/default. That was not immediately clear to me at first.

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