Card #3640 · Grafana
Dashboard provisioning fails when JSON contains ID property
When attempting to provision dashboards using JSON files exported via 'view json', Grafana throws errors requiring the removal of the 'id' property. Users are confused about the correct way to save JSON for provisioning and whether UIDs are required.
Pain score
0.15/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.82distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.27upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.25willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
provisioned dashboard json files cannot contain id
Cannot provision dashboard. Please remove the id property from the json file
I removed both “id” and “uid” wasn’t sure which was needed, and that seemed to work.
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