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Grafana dashboards: Expose datasource variable

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
grafana, prometheus
Domain
observability

Research direction

Start by locating the Grafana dashboard definitions and the datasource variable configuration. Done means the datasource variable is exposed so users can switch between datasources such as Prometheus and Victoria Metrics.

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Description

Datasource variable is hidden in Grafana dashboards. One may want to switch datasource (hot vs cold data, victoria metrics instead of prometheus for eg.).

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Go
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