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dashboarding

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Build and ship dashboards you can verify.

observability dashboarding

What it does

Produces dashboard JSON, updates Grafana through its HTTP API, and verifies pushed versions.

When to use it

Use when creating or editing dashboard JSON, variables, transformations, annotations, or API-pushed dashboards.

How to use it

Give it a dashboard goal; it creates or modifies the dashboard JSON, pushes it through the API, and verifies the result.

Uses


Access · 2

This skill

Grafana

Write

Creates or overwrites Grafana dashboards (irreversible)

/tmp/dash.json

Write

Overwrites a temporary dashboard file (irreversible)

Good to know

  • cannot be undone: Grafana; /tmp/dash.json

What you need · 3

Requires a reachable Grafana OSS, Enterprise, or Cloud stack.

Requires jq to validate dashboard JSON and inspect API responses.

Reads TOKEN from the environment and uses it as a Grafana API token with dashboards:write permission.


About this skill

Visibility
Public
Repository
grafana/skills
Created
Oct 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Files
2