Card #3440 · Grafana
Dashboard duplication and import overwrite issues
Merchants experience bugs when duplicating or importing dashboards, where new imports unexpectedly overwrite existing ones even when given different names. Additionally, some users report dashboards appearing as duplicates in the UI when using automatic JSON imports.
Pain score
0.24/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach1.00distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.73upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
the original dashboard has disappeared as if it had been overwritten by the imported one. And without warning…
if the second time I import a dashboard for a different data source, it simply overwrite the dashboard which was initially imported
Using /var/lib/grafana/dashboards to automatically import dashboards *.json files seems to create them duplicated, they appear twice in the dsahboard finder…
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