Card #3382 · Grafana
Limitations and instability of template variables
Users are experiencing significant issues with template variables, including their inability to be used in alerts and inconsistent initialization. Some report that changing variables can lead to dashboard corruption or runtime errors like 'Templating init failed'.
Pain score
0.25/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.97upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 4 verified quotes
Not being able to use template variable with alerts is a HUGE limitation with Grafana.
without alerts and email notification it make it a non starter. When is the problem going to be resolved with Template Variables?
what I see on the granfana interface is "Templating init failed Cannot read property ‘result’ of undefined"
I believe the last thing i did was change a variable in templating. Any idea how i can recover?
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