How to export and import a Grafana dashboard

Like many things, it is easy once you know how. The instructions on the internet usually missed one tiny critical piece of information. |←

Export a dashboard

In Grafana, select a dashboard. At the bottom of the display select |← (circled in the image). (This was the missing bit of information.)

  • This gives you icons
    • Download
    • Content outline
    • ->|
  • Select Download. This gives

You can either Download the file, or copy to the clip board. Because Grafana is running in a browser, the downloaded file is in your normal Downloads directory. One download had a name dashboard-1791876486315.json

Importing a dashboard

In Grafana, select Dashboards

Select the +^ on the top line, and select import dashboard.

You can drag and drop a file to the area, or select from a file list.

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