How to use exported Grafana dashboard?

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services.grafana.provision.dashboards.path expects a YAML file (or directory of YAML files), but Grafana seems to only be capable of exporting dashboards as JSON. I tried simply converting two such JSON files to YAML, but that doesn’t seem to be the right format. From the Grafana service log:

Error: ✗ *provisioning.ProvisioningServiceImpl run error: Failed to create provisioner: Failed to read dashboards config: could not parse provisioning config file: big.yaml error: yaml: unmarshal errors:
  line 1: cannot unmarshal !!map into []*dashboards.configV0
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This doesn’t answer your question, but when I was trying to setup grafana on NixOS, I had a lot of trouble getting the NixOS grafana module to do exactly what I wanted. This is about what I ended up with:

{ config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

{
  imports = [];

  services.grafana = {
    enable = true;
    settings.server = {
      domain = "my-domain.com";
      http_addr = "0.0.0.0";
      http_port = 3000;
    };
    provision = {
      enable = true;
      datasources = {
        settings = {
          datasources = [
            {
              name = "Prometheus";
              type = "prometheus";
              access = "proxy";
              url = "http://127.0.0.1:${toString config.services.prometheus.port}";
              isDefault = true;
            }
            {
              name = "Loki";
              type = "loki";
              access = "proxy";
              url = "http://127.0.0.1:${toString config.services.loki.configuration.server.http_listen_port}";
            }
          ];
        };
      };
      dashboards = {
        settings = {
          providers = [
            {
              name = "My Dashboards";
              options.path = "/etc/grafana-dashboards";
            }
          ];
        };
      };
    };
  };

  environment.etc = {
    "grafana-dashboards/node-exporter-full_rev30.json" = {
      source = ./grafana-dashboards/node-exporter-full_rev30.json;
      group = "grafana";
      user = "grafana";
    };
  };
}

You can see that I setup Grafana to look at the /etc/grafana-dashboards directory for dashboards, and then I just create files in that directory with environment.etc.

Hopefully this either gets you started, or someone else will be able to come along and answer your actual question.

(Also, I imagine you already know this, but just renaming a .json file to .yaml should always work, since YAML is a super-set of JSON. Any valid JSON file is by definition also a valid YAML file.)

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