Managing grafana dashboards in a CVS is not an easy task, since the exported dashboards by Grafana do not have always the same json layout due to the nature of the own json format. When exporting a Grafana dashboard json keys may be exported in different order. In addition, dealing with such complex json files is not an easy task since it's usually required import & export the full dashboard to perform a minimal modification or update.

Jsonnet based dashboards is an effort to improve the manageability of grafana json dashboards by leveraging the libraries included at the project grafonnet-lib. Using this mechanism of dashboards as code will improve versioning and make simplify collaboration.

To make a change, simply update the desired .jsonnet dashboard file and push your changes. The project is configured to automatically render updated .jsonnet files into .json format.

Alternatively, you can render the jsonnet files manually by doing the following:

Render a jsonnet file is as simple as executing jsonnet <jsonnet_template>. The jsonnet binary is not included in this repo, though binary builds can be found in its official repository. A makefile has been included to automate jsonnet formatting and rendering tasks. Executing make downloads the jsonnet binary and renders the templates at the rendered directory.

i.e.

$ make
mkdir -p bin rendered tmp
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/grafonnet-lib.git templates/grafonnet-lib
Cloning into 'templates/grafonnet-lib'...
Downloading jsonnet binary
curl -s -L https://github.com/google/jsonnet/releases/download/v0.15.0/jsonnet-bin-v0.15.0-linux.tar.gz | tar xzf - -C bin
Formating template templates/ocp-performance.jsonnet
bin/jsonnetfmt templates/ocp-performance.jsonnet > tmp/ocp-performance.jsonnet
mv tmp/ocp-performance.jsonnet templates/ocp-performance.jsonnet
Building template templates/ocp-performance.jsonnet
bin/jsonnet templates/ocp-performance.jsonnet > rendered/ocp-performance.json
$ ls rendered
ocp-ingress-controller.json ocp-performance.json

In order to clean up the environment execute make clean.

In order to lint the templates using jsonnetfmtexecute make format

$ make clean
Cleaning up
rm -rf bin rendered tmp templates/grafonnet-lib

The following templates are available:

• API Performance Dashboard
• Etcd Dashboard
• OpenShift Performance Dashboard
• OVN Dashboard
• Pgbench Dashboard
• UPerf Results Dashboard
• Vegeta Dashboard
• YCSB Dashboard

Dittybopper is a tool meant to deploy a grafana instance with certain dashboards on top of a running OpenShift 4.X cluster. Find more info here

To contribute to this repository submit a PR with your changes. If you're adding or modifying a panel, a screenshot with the changes you've make will ease reviewers work.

In addition, make sure to lint your modifications to jsonnet files if you don't want our CI to complain. You can do that executing make format.

The dashboards from this repository have been tested with the following versions:

• Grafana 7.X