Grafana Dashboard Templater

The Grafana dashboard templater create a valid Grafana dashboard as dictionary based on a template and injected values.

Dashboard template folder structure

dashboard-templates <- Folder of the dashboard templates
     database <- Dashboard type
        postgresql <- Dashboard name
            v13 <- Dashboard version
                dashboard.json.sample <- Dashboard template

Installation

pip install grafana-dashboard-templater

Example

from grafana_dashboard.model import Model
from grafana_dashboard.dashboard import Dashboard

dashboard_model: Model = Model(dashboard_templates_path="./dashboard-templates", dashboard_type="database",
                               dashboard_name="postgresql", dashboard_version="v13")

dashboard: Dashboard = Dashboard(dashboard_model)
dashboard_json = dashboard.get_dashboard_json(template_values={"app_name": "PostgreSQL", "prometheus_name": "k8s-sonarqube-postgresql"})

Grafana API SDK

If you want to establish a connection to Grafana API via an SDK you can check out one of my other project and integrate the functionality inside your code.