Grafana: Templating: Reuse template variable definitions across dashboards
Torkel,
Is it possible to create global templates rather than a particular dashboard based templates. This is what I mean. Currently, I do this step to create template based dashboard:
- Create a new dashboard
- select option then features and pick template
- I can only use this template with this dashboard.
Is it possible to create global templates? So that an SME will create the templates, and users will only pick the template names from the query to build charts? I hope I am clear.
gsaray101
All 122 comments
yea, with Grafana 2.0 and the new backend, it would be possible in a future release (maybe next year or this winter), to add template variables as independent entities that you can reuse across dashboards.
torkelo
on 7 May 2015
Torkel, this is exteremely important for us, any chance you could prioritize this?
gsaray101
on 7 May 2015
no, maybe if it would get a lot of +1 :) People have been fine without centralized storage of template vars this far, just define them for one dashboard and then copy that dashboard. Not ideal.
The current roadmap for features like this (that is moving something out of dashboards and making them savable as separate entities, and reusable across dashboards).
1) First reusable panes & panel templates across dashboards
2) Annotations
3) Annotations per panel
I feature like this needs a lot of +1 votes, then it might get added to a roadmap. You can write some code yourself that uses the HTTP api to sync template variables across many dashboards
torkelo
on 7 May 2015
:+1:
catacgc
on 10 May 2015
:+1:
gsaray101
on 11 May 2015
+1
In my use case I have one template variable with predefined values, and used in 10+ dashboards. Making a change to 10 places every time is not fun!
mvadu
on 28 Sep 2015
+1
utkarshcmu
on 14 Oct 2015
+1
mtanda
on 8 Nov 2015
+1
qqren
on 16 Dec 2015
+1
kaleparag
on 16 Dec 2015
@torkelo How do you define "a lot"?
RichiH
on 29 Dec 2015
- 1
feraudet
on 27 Jan 2016
+1
sslupsky
on 26 Feb 2016
+1
sfleiter
on 9 Mar 2016
+1
gilgamezh
on 2 Apr 2016
+1
awwithro
on 24 Apr 2016
+1 - I use some massive GLOB statements i.e. {entity1, entity2, entity3} which I use on multiple dashboards and they change fairly frequently and I have to update them in a half dozen dashboards. Global variables would be an amazing feature
phateuk
on 28 Apr 2016
:+1:
neh
on 27 May 2016
I am surprised there is not that many +1s. I am replicating a template variable queried from a Prometheus instance-label for every dashboard I create in this organisation ...
+1
mweirauch
on 8 Jun 2016
+1
arnaudmm
on 3 Jul 2016
+1
rydeng
on 6 Jul 2016
+1
vaibhavinbayarea
on 6 Sep 2016
+1
alhardy
on 20 Sep 2016
+1
erowan
on 28 Nov 2016
A quick workaround may be using wizzy CLI until we can get some major code refactoring to use template variables accross Grafana:
One may copy or move template variables from one dashboard to another - https://github.com/utkarshcmu/wizzy#local-commands
utkarshcmu
on 4 Dec 2016
+1
miketwenty1
on 6 Dec 2016
wizzy 0.4.0 released... now you can extract template variables from any dashboard, store it and insert it in any dashboard....
https://github.com/utkarshcmu/wizzy#template-variables-commands
utkarshcmu
on 9 Dec 2016
+1
Dchamard
on 21 Dec 2016
+1
andrewawagner
on 22 Dec 2016
+1 +1 +1 :)
nas-faq
on 15 Jan 2017
+1
MichaelKueller
on 13 Mar 2017
+1
LuigiClemente-Awin
on 13 Mar 2017
+1
migg24
on 17 Mar 2017
+1
rgeniesse
on 27 Mar 2017
+1
paolobruzzo-Agoda
on 31 Mar 2017
+1
izenk
on 7 Apr 2017
+1
Ultraseamus
on 25 Apr 2017
+1
aplsek
on 11 May 2017
+1
aderumier
on 29 May 2017
+1
bergerx
on 29 May 2017
+1
selivanovm
on 20 Jun 2017
+1000
vitaly
on 12 Jul 2017
+1
amathys
on 17 Aug 2017
+1 I think. I'm a grafana newbie so go easy ;-) Would this allow me to set a time range that would span all dashboards? I want to be able to view data for a particular time interval from different dashboards to get an integrated view of what happened then. If I click on some widget inside the dashboard that redirects me to another one, the time interval is preserved, but if I select a dashboard from a menu, the time interval is lost, and grafana documentation seems to be telling me there is nothing I can do about it but pound sand ;-{ . I would think other people would be interested in a feature like this. Can anyone suggest at least a hack that lets me try this behavior out and see if it works?
bengland2
on 18 Aug 2017
+1
lovepp
on 29 Aug 2017
+1
zhouguoqing
on 29 Aug 2017
+10086
LessOrMore
on 29 Aug 2017
+1 顶
wangyuhaoa
on 29 Aug 2017
+1
iliugh
on 29 Aug 2017
@torkelo As per 2015: "How do you define 'a lot'?" ;)
@bergquist this is over 9000, now.
RichiH
on 29 Aug 2017
@torkelo As per 2015: "How do you define 'a lot'?" ;)
This issue has definitely reached that threshold (of having a lot of +1 / thumbs up). But there are about 30 issues with even more thumbs up so the competition for feature requests with lots of demand is pretty high :)
I do think this feature makes a lot of sense, and would definitely like to see it implemented. Not sure when we will time to work on it, maybe early next year.
torkelo
on 29 Aug 2017
Valid point. Do you have a public list of "this is what we want, in this order, and those are the bits we are working on"? This could be linked from the issues so people know it's accepted.
Also, tagging issues as "accepted, will happen at some point" would help.
RichiH
on 29 Aug 2017
updated our roadmap: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/ROADMAP.md it is very broad and not very detailed yet.
torkelo
on 29 Aug 2017
@torkelo LOL, you were not kidding when you said "very broad" ;-)
But, thank you for starting the process though ... I think anything you can do to communicate the direction you are going will help to improve the quality of feedback from the community.
Thanks again for all the work you are doing with this project.
sslupsky
on 29 Aug 2017
+1
kichristensen
on 21 Nov 2017
+1
hmdavis
on 30 Nov 2017
+1
markfermor
on 5 Dec 2017
+1
kerneljack
on 5 Dec 2017
+1
brad-plumewifi
on 21 Dec 2017
+1
ekovacs
on 21 Dec 2017
+1
davidohana
on 4 Jan 2018
+1
jlogeart
on 6 Jan 2018
+1
aderumier
on 8 Jan 2018
+1
JSN-1
on 12 Jan 2018
+1
anitakrueger
on 25 Jan 2018
+1
ghost
on 1 Feb 2018
+1
zmc
on 1 Feb 2018
+1
AlexBaitov
on 15 Feb 2018
+1
xakep139
on 15 Feb 2018
+1
eriksjaastad
on 16 Feb 2018
+1
chitwan-malhotra
on 16 Feb 2018
+1
ivandal77
on 6 Mar 2018
+1
zbowyer20
on 8 Mar 2018
+1
tchiotludo
on 21 Mar 2018
+1
bobrowadam
on 27 Mar 2018
+1
Confectrician
on 31 Mar 2018
+1
mues-lee
on 7 Apr 2018
+1
owen5mith
on 9 Apr 2018
+1
jmeberst
on 10 Apr 2018
+1
konvergence
on 16 Apr 2018
+1
suikast42
on 19 Apr 2018
+1
zimmertr
on 23 Apr 2018
+1
iharog
on 29 Apr 2018
+1
zegerhoogeboom
on 4 May 2018
+1
aderumier
on 16 May 2018
+1
RonanHiggins
on 19 May 2018
+1
crwecker
on 25 May 2018
+1
duncanphillips
on 12 Jun 2018
+1
reynders
on 18 Jun 2018
+1
jeremyjalal
on 26 Jun 2018
+1
xxwassyxx
on 12 Jul 2018
+1
bscholze
on 17 Jul 2018
+1
This would be super useful for deployment across environments.
RuffSeason
on 28 Jul 2018
well. +1
Hanszel
on 3 Aug 2018
+1
kevinheins
on 24 Aug 2018
Please make it so
KyleAJohnson
on 1 Sep 2018
To anyone interested in this feature, please prefer adding a reaction to the initial post instead of posting a "+1" comment. This makes it easier for everyone to track how much people want this.
agis
on 5 Sep 2018
Is this by any chance happening soon? It would be extremely useful.
Thanks!
jcasals
on 30 Jan 2019
I'd also highly appreciate this feature!
Armadill0
on 13 Feb 2019
I'd like this feature aswell.
kweyd
on 13 Feb 2019
we would also find this quite useful!
karlyan17
on 13 Feb 2019
+1
wojtekdz2
on 13 Mar 2019
+1
gaizeror
on 17 Mar 2019
+1 Any updates on the priority of implementing this feature? Would significantly cut down on time and allow for increased dashboard modularity and reusability across deploys.
ntkjer
on 10 May 2019
Also need this, being able to define variables at user level (in user accounts), which could then be used in dashboard templates.
We could then have one dashboard template for all users, each user seing its own / customized data.
Thx 👍
benrubson
on 23 May 2019
Not sure if this has been addressed - but ideally I don't think these should be global variables. Within one instance I may have groups of dashboards that have identical variable needs, but different from those of other groups of dashboards. As is often the case, global variables can cause problems.
I think what would be more ideas is to have "Variable Groups" with a set of variables and each dashboard can have the group needed.
There are questions like - can I add specific variables to a dashboard that already has a variable group. Would it be possible to have multiple variable groups for a dashboard, etc. I would opt for the simplest approach for now.
yehosef
on 25 Jun 2019
+1
jamesmacfa
on 1 Aug 2019
+1 Any updates on the priority of implementing this feature? Would really like to have a central way to manage dashboards. Thanks
ZaheerAhmedShaik
on 7 Aug 2019
+1 This feature would be awesome and significantly cut down on the headaches associated with managing 20+ dashboards.
pwlawe
on 9 Dec 2019
+1
giorgiofanecco
on 20 Dec 2019
+1 please this would make my work a lot easier
mtoner23
on 20 Dec 2019
+1 what's the priority on this?
kgyl
on 21 Apr 2020
+1
mlagally
on 22 Apr 2020
+1
anarcher
on 28 Apr 2020
+1
boris377
on 1 Jun 2020
+1
nereyda73
on 10 Jun 2020
+1
ravikanth39
on 11 Jun 2020
+1, maintaining panels duplicated across dashboards is a pain.
uniring
on 24 Jun 2020
Starting to build out my OTRS dashboard with 'sub' dashboards and this would be really handy, for sure!
martinm76
on 28 Jun 2020
+1
n0nvme
on 10 Jul 2020
+1 for shared pannel, 1 small change in query needs to be updated in 40+ dashboards is a pain.
tibin-mfl
on 10 Sep 2020
+1
alewkinr
on 24 Oct 2020
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Torkel, this is exteremely important for us, any chance you could prioritize this?