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Currently the dashboard block has to be restarted in order to force a scan for new measurements and fields. We should poll this on some interval or hook if possible, to add new information to the dashboards as soon as it is available.

As a user I want to be shown my RAW data when I open the auto-generated dashboard, so that I can see what the values look like, and work out how I want to visualise it.

The current Grafana version (7.1.3) is very old. Some plugins I want to use, eg marcusolsson-json-datasource is not compatible with this version of Grafana.

For my purposes, version 7.3.0 suffices, but Grafana itself is already on 8.2.2. An upgrade to that version might need additional changes, whereas an upgrade to 7.3.0 should work with this changing the version in download.sh.
There are also later 7.x versions, but I have not tried whether they will work.

currently there's only rpi3 and rpi4 variants, having amd64 too would be nice

There is an edge case which can cause dashboard to fail to generate a dashboard, due to a failure to create an API key.

Repro steps

• Deploy an app using dashboard
• Move a device from an app already using dashboard

Expected behaviour

The device moves to the new app, downloads the containers and generates a dashboard

Actual behaviour

Starting dashboard sync, checking APIs...
Could not generate API key (this is bad)
APIs available, proceeding...
Synchronizing dashboard for mqtt_consumer
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/app/update-dashboards.py", line 17, in <module>
    grafana_dash_gen.sync_dashboard(measurement)
  File "/usr/src/app/grafana_dash_gen.py", line 99, in sync_dashboard
    if self.load_existing_dashboard(data['name']):
  File "/usr/src/app/grafana_dash_gen.py", line 156, in load_existing_dashboard
    req.add_header('Authorization', 'Bearer ' + self.apikey)
TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "NoneType") to str

Allow users to supplement the auto-generated dashboards with their own pre-created ones. In the case of Grafana this can be implemented by providing .json dashboard files within the provisioning/dashboards folder.

Currently influx_db_name='balena', would be cool to allow setting it via an env var: INFLUXDB_DB='whatevs'

Currently looks like this

Set the container up so that environment variables do not need to be provided in docker-compose.yml. Make variables generic and not grafana-specific.

When a new field is discovered and added to an existing dashboard, the field is successfully added and works OK independently, but causes some strange interactions with panels above it.

Hi,

I'm currently doing the following in a docker-compose file:

...
  dashboard:
    image: bh.cr/balenalabs/dashboard
    restart: always
    hostname: dashboard
    volumes:
        - 'dashboard-data:/data'
    ports:
        - '80'
  browser:
    image: bh.cr/balenalabs/browser-aarch64 # where <arch> is one of aarch64, arm32 or amd64
    privileged: true # required for UDEV to find plugged in peripherals such as a USB mouse
    ports:
        - '5011' # management API (optional)
        - '35173' # Chromium debugging port (optional)
    volumes:
      - 'settings:/data' # Only required if using PERSISTENT flag (see below)
    environment:
      - LAUNCH_URL=http://dashboard
...

I can see in the Dockerfile for bh.cr/balenalabs/dashboard, there is the following line:

COPY ./provisioning /usr/share/grafana/conf/provisioning

I'm unsure with docker, how I specify my own yml files, when using your image, or is that not possible?

I did try cloning and modifying this repo, and referencing it from my docker-compose.yml, however I seemed to get issues -

[Logs]    [2023-10-05T14:51:56.378Z] [dashboard] sh: /lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by sh)

Many thanks!

Would be nice to know upfront how to craft a commit which will pass versionist :-)