grafana.grafana.dashboard module – Manage Dashboards in Grafana

Note

This module is part of the grafana.grafana collection (version 5.4.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install grafana.grafana. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: grafana.grafana.dashboard.

New in grafana.grafana 0.0.1

Synopsis

  • Create, Update and delete Dashboards using Ansible.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • requests >= 1.0.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

dashboard

dictionary / required

JSON source code for dashboard.

grafana_api_key

string / required

Grafana API Key to authenticate with Grafana Cloud.

grafana_url

string / required

URL of the Grafana instance.

state

string

State for the Grafana Dashboard.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

Notes

Note

  • Does not support check_mode.

  • Does not support Idempotency.

Examples

- name: Create/Update a dashboard
  grafana.grafana.dashboard:
    dashboard: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', 'dashboard.json') }}"
    grafana_url: "{{ grafana_url }}"
    grafana_api_key: "{{ grafana_api_key }}"
    state: present

- name: Delete dashboard
  grafana.grafana.dashboard:
    dashboard: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.file', 'dashboard.json') }}"
    grafana_url: "{{ grafana_url }}"
    grafana_api_key: "{{ grafana_api_key }}"
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

output

dictionary

Dict object containing folder information.

Returned: On success

id

integer

The ID for the dashboard.

Returned: on success

Sample: 17

message

string

The message returned after the operation on the dashboard.

Returned: state is absent and on success

Sample: "Dashboard Ansible Integration Test deleted"

slug

string

The slug for the dashboard.

Returned: state is present and on success

Sample: "ansible-integration-test"

status

string

The status of the dashboard.

Returned: state is present and on success

Sample: "success"

title

string

The name of the dashboard.

Returned: state is absent and on success

Sample: "Ansible Integration Test"

uid

string

The UID for the dashboard.

Returned: state is present and on success

Sample: "test1234"

url

string

The endpoint for the dashboard.

Returned: state is present and on success

Sample: "/d/test1234/ansible-integration-test"

version

integer

The version of the dashboard.

Returned: state is present and on success

Sample: 2

Authors

  • Ishan Jain (@ishanjainn)