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
var seriesName = 'argName';
if (!_.isUndefined(ARGS.name)) {
seriesName = ARGS.name;
}
dashboard.panels.push({
title: 'Events',
type: 'graph',
fill: 1,
linewidth: 2,
gridPos: {
h: 10,
w: 24,
x: 0,
y: 10,
},
targets: [
{
target: "randomWalk('" + seriesName + "')",
},
{
target: "randomWalk('random walk2')",
},
],
});
return dashboard;
More examples
You can find more examples in public/dashboards/ directory of your Grafana installation.
