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Migrate resources between environments🔗

Grafana resources can be migrated from one environment to another, for example: from a development to production environment.

As such, you will need to configure several contexts: one per environment. In this example scenario, we will use dev for the development environment and prod for production.

  1. Make changes to dashboards and other resources using the Grafana UI in your development instance.
  2. Pull those resources from the development environment to your local machine:
grafanactl resources pull --context dev # Add `-o yaml` export resources as YAML
  1. Push the resources to production:
grafanactl resources push --context prod

Note

Resources are pulled and pushed from the ./resources directory by default. This path can be configured with the --path/-p flags.

Backup and restore resources🔗

This workflow helps you back up all Grafana resources from one instance and later restore them. This can be useful to replicate a configuration or perform disaster recovery.

  1. Ensure the current context points to the Grafana instance to backup/restore:
grafanactl config use-context YOUR_CONTEXT  # for example "prod"
  1. Pull all resources from your target environment:
grafanactl resources pull --path ./backup-prod # Add `-o yaml` to export resources as YAML
  1. Save the exported resources to version control or cloud storage.
  2. Push the resources to restore them:
grafanactl resources push --path ./backup-prod