How to create a dashboard in grafana

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Last updated: Feb 11, 2020 by Kaliraja Ramasamy
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  1. Open grafana url and enter username and password

  2. Create a dashboard

    after that select Add Query and write query

    Change Appropriate title and save(on the top right corner)

    Click on the Settings button(on the right-hand top button) and Give Proper name and save

     

  3. After that you’ve to commit the dashboard to github in sunbird-devops, Click on the share icon on the right hand side

    Click on export, and View json


    And copy to clipboard

     

  4. Clone sunbird-devops repo

  5. Add the copied json to sunbird-devops/kubernetes/helm_charts/monitoring/dashboards/dashboards/<dashsboard-name>.json

  6. Add the dashboard file path in values.yaml under dashboards.default dictionary.
    Here the dashboard name is nginx.json

     

  7. Commit the changes and Create a PR against github.com/project-sunbird/sunbird-devops

  8. Once your PR is merged, Go to Jenkins and run the Deploy/Kubernetes/Monitoring → type dashboards as tag and deploy

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