Scripted dashboards

Warning: This feature is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

If you have lots of metric names that change (new servers etc) in a defined pattern it is irritating to constantly have to create new dashboards.

With scripted dashboards you can dynamically create your dashboards using javascript. In the Grafana install folder under public/dashboards/ there is a file named scripted.js. This file contains an example of a scripted dashboard. You can access it by using the URL: http://grafana_url/dashboard/script/scripted.js?rows=3&name=myName

If you open scripted.js you can see how it reads URL parameters from ARGS variable and then adds rows and panels.

Example

  1. var seriesName = 'argName';
  3. if (!_.isUndefined(ARGS.name)) {
  4.   seriesName = ARGS.name;
  5. }
  7. dashboard.panels.push({
  8.   title: 'Events',
  9.   type: 'graph',
  10.   fill: 1,
  11.   linewidth: 2,
  12.   gridPos: {
  13.     h: 10,
  14.     w: 24,
  15.     x: 0,
  16.     y: 10,
  17.   },
  18.   targets: [
  19.     {
  20.       target: "randomWalk('" + seriesName + "')",
  21.     },
  22.     {
  23.       target: "randomWalk('random walk2')",
  24.     },
  25.   ],
  26. });
  28. return dashboard;

More examples

You can find more examples in public/dashboards/ directory of your Grafana installation.