Grafana Backup Action

This is a simple GitHub Action to backup Grafana Cloud dashboards.

Usage

• GRAFANA_CLOUD_API_KEY - your Grafana Cloud API key
• GRAFANA_ORG - the Grafana organization name
• OUTPUT_FOLDER - the folder to save the dashboards to (ie: backup)
• OVERWRITE_FILES - true to overwrite/update files, false to create date-stamped sub-folders

GitHub Actions

Create a new repository and add the following workflow file to .github/workflows/grafana-backup.yml:

name: Grafana Backup

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 2 * * *'

jobs:
  grafana-backup:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Grafana Backup
        uses: zentered/grafana-backup@v1.0.2
        env:
          GRAFANA_CLOUD_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.GRAFANA_CLOUD_API_KEY }}
          GRAFANA_ORG: '<your-org>'
          OUTPUT_FOLDER: ''
          OVERWRITE_FILES: true
      - uses: EndBug/add-and-commit@v9
        with:
          default_author: github_actions

Local

Add your API key and the organization name to .env (see .env.example).

Run pnpm start to backup all dashboards to backup.

License

Licensed under MIT.