Exporting dashboards
This documentation topic is designed for Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 10.x.
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 9.x, see Working in Grafana version 9.
For Grafana workspaces that support Grafana version 8.x, see Working in Grafana version 8.
You can use the Grafana UI or the HTTP API to export dashboards.
The dashboard export action creates a Grafana JSON file that contains everything you need, including layout, variables, styles, data sources, queries, and so on, so that you can later import the dashboard.
Making a dashboard portable
If you want to export a dashboard for others to use, you can add template variables for things like a metric prefix (use a constant variable) and server name.
A template variable of the type Constant will automatically be hidden
in the dashboard, and will also be added as a required input when the dashboard is
imported.
To export a dashboard
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Open the dashboard that you want to export.
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Select the share icon.
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Choose Export.
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Choose Save to file.
Note
Grafana downloads a JSON file to your local machine.
