grafana/docker-otel-lgtm

Make grafana-dashboards.yaml configurable

brunobat opened this issue · 4 comments

brunobat commented

We have this issue in Quarkus to create dashboards for our metrics and we were unable to place our dashboards without a hack.
Issue: quarkusio/quarkus#41264

It would be nice if you placed in the grafana.ini the location of grafana-dashboards.yaml at /otel-lgtm, this way we could override the dashboards at our convenience.

The current location is version dependent, under ./grafana-v<grafana-version>/conf/provisioning/dashboards/grafana-dashboards.yaml

zeitlinger commented

what if we just remove the version from the path?

I currently don't have a grafana.ini and would like to keep it that way if possible

brunobat commented

Removing the version from the path would also work, thanks.

zeitlinger commented

it seems this is already the case:

sh-5.1# pwd
/otel-lgtm/grafana/conf/provisioning/dashboards
sh-5.1# cat grafana-dashboards.yaml 
apiVersion: 1

providers:
  - name: 'RED Metrics (classic histogram)'
    type: file
    options:
      path: /otel-lgtm/grafana-dashboard-red-metrics-classic.json
      foldersFromFilesStructure: false
  - name: 'RED Metrics (exponential/native histogram)'
    type: file
    options:
      path: /otel-lgtm/grafana-dashboard-red-metrics-native.json
      foldersFromFilesStructure: false
  - name: 'JVM Metrics'
    type: file
    options:
      path: /otel-lgtm/grafana-dashboard-jvm-metrics.json
      foldersFromFilesStructure: false
brunobat commented

Thanks @zeitlinger. We will update our extension to use your latest image.