How do I save Grafana dash boards?

There is documentation on the internet explaining how to save (share) dashboards. It goes like “from the hamburger icon select share dashboard”. I do not have the hamburger icon. I think this is because I am using the free opensource version.

I found a pointer to a script on the internet

#!/bin/bash

x=$(curl -u admin:password  http://localhost:3000/api/search?query= )

for uid in $(curl -u admin:password  http://localhost:3000/api/search?query= | jq --raw-output '.[].uid') ; do
  echo $uid
  curl -u admin:panthe0n  "http://localhost:3000/api/dashboards/uid/$uid" > "dashboards/$uid.json"
done

The output was a JSON file. I do not think you can import it back into Grafana (because it says it does not have a matching schema), but at least you can see what the contents were, and manually add them back into Grafana.

There is a more modern API such as

curl -u admin:panthe0n  http://localhost:3000/apis/dashboard.grafana.app/v1/namespaces/default/dashboards?limit=10

which will list all dashboards and their contents.

The modern API allows you to create dashboards – but I’ll leave this till another day.