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Grafana Dashboard Report

Capture a Grafana dashboard on a schedule and send it as a PDF report.

Goal​

Every morning at 7:00, send the operations team the wind farm dashboard of the last 24 hours. The example uses the public Demo Wind Farm dashboard at play.grafana.org.

Steps​

1. Create the job​

  1. Open Jobs in the sidebar.
  2. Click Create Job, then Create New.

2. General​

  • Frequency: every day at 7:00.

The General tab: a daily frequency at 7:00

3. Capture​

  1. Connector: Grafana.
  2. URL: the address of the dashboard. Put the time range in the URL with from and to, as Grafana does: 
    https://grafana.example.com/d/your-dashboard-uid?orgId=1&from=now-24h&to=now
    Add var-… parameters to set the dashboard variables.
  3. Authentication: Grafana fills the Grafana login form with the credentials you give. Basic sends HTTP Basic credentials, for a Grafana behind a proxy. The public demo needs None.
  4. Snapshot template: Full page takes the whole dashboard, with every panel. Visualizations takes one image per panel, to place each panel on its own in the report.

The Capture tab: the Grafana connector, the dashboard URL with its time range, and the snapshot template

Anaphora waits until every panel loads, including the panels below the fold. A panel that shows "No data" or an error is a result, and does not hold the capture.

4. Compose​

Place the snapshot, and a title above it:

The Compose tab: a title with the date above the Grafana wind farm dashboard

5. Deliver​

Choose a delivery interface (email, Slack, a webhook or S3) and the recipients.

The Deliver tab: an SMTP interface and the operations address

6. Run and save​

Click Run to build and send the report once, then Save.

Result​

The delivered report: the title, the date and the whole wind farm dashboard

Next steps​