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Date Published
Author
Malcolm Holmes
Word count
2218
Language
English
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None

Summary

Grafana, a leading dashboarding tool, can be managed similarly to code by utilizing version control systems like Git, enabling collaboration and automated deployments. To facilitate editing and reviewing dashboards, tools such as Grafonnet and the Grafana Foundation SDK allow users to create dashboards as JSON files, which can be edited locally using integrated development environments (IDEs). Grizzly, a command-line tool, offers a serve function that allows users to validate and edit these dashboards in a Grafana instance before they are published. This process can be enhanced by ensuring that data source UIDs are consistent across development and production instances. Grizzly supports various programming languages, including Jsonnet, TypeScript, Golang, Python, Java, and PHP, allowing users to generate dashboards programmatically. By using Grizzly's watch feature, developers can monitor for changes in their dashboard files, facilitating immediate updates and previews in a Grafana instance, thereby streamlining the development and review process.