grafana_dashboard metadata being lost

[bljordan]

Hi there,

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.7

• provider.grafana v1.0.2

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• grafana_dashboard

Expected Behavior

Grafana dashboards use the metadata of the dashboard to reproduce placement in folders, etc. This is all of the data for a dashboard given by the Grafana API. Note that the ~Grafana UI does not yet allow exporting the metadata.~ Grafana maintainers do not intend on allowing users to export the dashboard metadata through the UI. The proper method to get all of the dashboard data is through the API. { "meta": { "type": "db", "canSave": true, "canEdit": true, "canAdmin": false, "canStar": true, "slug": "dashboard-name", "url": "/d/XckjVRNik/dashboard-name", "expires": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "created": "2018-06-13T20:50:54Z", "updated": "2018-06-13T21:19:15Z", "updatedBy": "bljordan", "createdBy": "Anonymous", "version": 2, "hasAcl": false, "isFolder": false, "folderId": 82, "folderTitle": "dashboard-name", "folderUrl": "/dashboards/f/kdhl-0Sik/dashboard-name" }, "dashboard": { "annotations": { "list": [ { <snip>

Actual Behavior

The terraform provider expects only the dashboard json blob and metadata is lost (folder placement, folder permissioning).

Steps to Reproduce

Use the terraform provider with Grafana 5.0.4 and folders. Make changes, apply, watch metadata be lost.

References

See corresponding issue in Grafana: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12266