Note on 16.05.2018:

for the latest working version with grafana > 5 you can check an example here: https://github.com/istio/istio/tree/master/addons/grafana

Immutable Grafana

Immutable Grafana with dashboard & datasource as code.

Important

This feature is only available in grafana master branch, and is scheduled to be release with Grafana 4.7! Check here: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/milestone/72

If you consider to use this approach for your code, I suggest you tag the grafana/grafana:master with your own tag and use that image instead, so that you are not suprised if grafana/grafana:master is suddenly not so stable.

Starting the project

Start / run / play around with:

docker-compose up

• Grafana localhost:3000 (admin admin credentials) - Should be configured with a datasource and a dashboard
• Prometheus localhost:9090

If you need to rebuild the containers, simply use

docker-compose up --build

Purpose of this project is to showcase how to package different grafana configurations directly into a custom grafana image.

• For the datasource, a Prometheus container is also started with docker-compose, and the datasource configuration automatically uses this prometheus instance
• For the dashboard, a custom dashboard using some Prometheus metrics is also baked into the image

Workflow for editing / saving a custom dashbord is simply:

• edit the dashboard directly in grafana
• export the dashboard to JSON
• save the JSON file here in sources (dashboard folder)