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dashboard review

What this page covers

Review one local dashboard JSON file without touching Grafana.

When to open this page

  • Use this when you want a local read-only check of a dashboard draft before publishing or importing it.

Who this page is for

Best for SREs, Grafana operators, and responders working with dashboard inventory, migration, inspection, or screenshots.

Purpose

Review one local dashboard JSON file without touching Grafana.

When to use

Use this when you want a local read-only check of a dashboard draft before publishing or importing it.

Key flags

  • --input: dashboard JSON file to review. Use - to read one wrapped or bare dashboard JSON document from standard input.
  • --output-format: choose text, table, csv, json, or yaml.
  • --json, --table, --csv, --yaml: direct output selectors.

Examples

# Purpose: Review one local dashboard JSON file without touching Grafana.
grafana-util dashboard review --input ./drafts/cpu-main.json
# Purpose: Review one local dashboard JSON file without touching Grafana.
grafana-util dashboard review --input ./drafts/cpu-main.json --output-format yaml
# Purpose: Review one generated dashboard from standard input.
jsonnet dashboards/cpu.jsonnet | grafana-util dashboard review --input - --output-format json