dashboard browse

Purpose

Open the live dashboard tree or a local export tree in an interactive terminal UI.

When to use

Use this when you want to explore folders, select a dashboard, inspect the live tree before fetching, diffing, importing, or deleting, review raw JSON edits inside the live TUI flow, or review a local export tree without calling Grafana.

Key flags

• --path: start at one folder subtree instead of the full tree.
• --input-dir: browse a local raw export root, all-orgs export root, or provisioning tree.
• --input-format: interpret the local export tree as raw or provisioning.
• --org-id: browse one explicit Grafana org.
• --all-orgs: aggregate browse results across visible orgs. Requires Basic auth.
• Shared live flags: --url, --token, --basic-user, --basic-password.

Live TUI actions

• e: open the metadata edit dialog for the selected live dashboard row.
• E: open the selected live dashboard JSON in your external editor, then return to a TUI review modal where you can preview publish, save a draft, apply live, or discard.
• h: inspect live revision history for the selected dashboard.
• d / D: preview delete actions for the selected dashboard or subtree.
• Local browse stays read-only and does not offer these live actions.

Examples

# Purpose: Open the live dashboard tree in an interactive terminal UI.
grafana-util dashboard browse --url http://localhost:3000 --basic-user admin --basic-password admin

# Purpose: Open the live dashboard tree in an interactive terminal UI.
grafana-util dashboard browse --url http://localhost:3000 --basic-user admin --basic-password admin --path 'Platform / Infra'

# Purpose: Open a local raw export tree in an interactive terminal UI.
grafana-util dashboard browse --input-dir ./dashboards/raw --path 'Platform / Infra'

Related commands

• dashboard list
• dashboard fetch-live
• dashboard delete