grafana-jsx

A JSX library for creating JSON for Grafana.

Contents

• About
• Usage
  • Getting Started
  • APIs
    • createObject
    • createGrafanaJsxString
      • Options
  • Components
    • Annotation
    • Annotations
    • Dashboard
    • Link
    • Links
    • Panel
    • Panels
    • Row
    • Template
    • Templates
    • Time
    • TimePicker
• Developing
  • Install
  • Build
  • Test
    • Unit & Integration Tests
    • Storybook
  • Lint
• Contributing
• Changelog

About

There are several ways now to write Grafana dashboards as code, but none which allow you to do so with JSX - a syntax which is now very common for front-end development.

This repository provides a JSX pragma for Grafana dashboard JSON creation along with some core Grafana dashboard components that can be used to create dashboards written in JSX.

This allows you to define elegant, re-usable and composable components for your dashboards that will ultimately be transpiled to JSON that can be seemlessly imported into Grafana, either by copy and paste, Dashboard API or scripted dashboards.

Usage

Getting Started

Install this package using npm / yarn.

yarn add grafana-jsx

The recommended way to use this package is with JSX in your codebase. This can be achieved by using the @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx and babel-plugin-jsx-pragmatic plugins.

Add the babel plugins to your codebase:

yarn add -D @babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx babel-plugin-jsx-pragmatic

And update your .babelrc to use the JSX babel plugins:

{
  "plugins": [
    [
      "@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx",
      {
        "pragma": "jsx",
        "pragmaFrag": "jsxFrag"
      }
    ],
    [
      "babel-plugin-jsx-pragmatic",
      {
        "module": "grafana-jsx",
        "import": "jsx",
        "export": "createObject"
      },
      "jsx"
    ],
    [
      "babel-plugin-jsx-pragmatic",
      {
        "module": "grafana-jsx",
        "import": "jsxFrag",
        "export": "Fragment"
      },
      "jsxFrag"
    ]
  ]
}

You can now use JSX and JSX Fragments <></> in your codebase and Babel will parse the JSX using the grafana-jsx pragmas.

import { Dashboard } from "grafana-jsx";
 
const MyCustomDashboard = (
  <Dashboard title={"my-dashboard"}>
    <Panels>
      <Panel type={"text"} x={0} y={0} />
      <Panel type={"text"} x={0} y={9} />
    </Panels>
  </Dashboard>
);
 
export default MyCustomDashboard;

APIs

createObject

The createObject method has been re-exported from the json-jsx package. Please refer to it's usage documentation for API details.

createGrafanaJsxString

createGrafanaJsxString is a utility method for reverse engineering valid JSX from a Grafana dashboard JSON object.

Note that it relies on the JSON being passed to it being a Grafana dashboard JSON object, it will not successfully parse generic JSON into JSX that can be used with the createObject JSX pragma.

import { createGrafanaJsxString } from "grafana-jsx";
import fs from "fs";
 
/**
 * Evaluates to:
 *
 * `<Dashboard editable={true} graphTooltip={0} hideControls={false} id={null} style={"dark"} tags={[]} timezone={"browser"} title={"test-dashboard"}>
 * <Annotations>
 * <Annotation builtIn={0} datasource={"test-datasource-1"} enable={true} hide={true} iconColor={"rgba(0, 211, 255, 1)"} name={"test-name-1"} type={"dashboard"} />
 * <Annotation builtIn={1} datasource={"test-datasource-2"} enable={true} hide={true} iconColor={"rgba(0, 211, 255, 1)"} name={"test-name-2"} type={"dashboard"} />
 * </Annotations>
 * <Links>
 * <Link icon={"external link"} tags={[]} type={"dashboards"} />
 * </Links>
 * <Panels>
 * <Panel type={"test-type-1"} x={0} y={0} w={12} h={9} />
 * <Panel type={"test-type-2"} x={0} y={9} w={12} h={9} />
 * </Panels>
 * <Templates enable={true}>
 * <Template allFormat={null} allValue={null} hide={0} includeAll={false} label={null} multi={false} options={[]} refresh={0} skipUrlSync={false} sort={0} tags={[]} useTags={false} />
 * </Templates>
 * <Time from={"now-12h"} to={"now-6h"} />
 * <TimePicker collapse={false} enable={true} notice={false} now={true} refresh_intervals={["5s","10s","30s","1m","5m","15m","30m","1h","2h","1d"]} status={"Stable"} time_options={["5m","15m","1h","6h","12h","24h","2d","7d","30d"]} type={"timepicker"} />
 * </Dashboard>`
 *
 * Note that the output JSX is quite verbose. You may be able to remove some / all
 * of the props assigned to components as they may well be defaults.
 *
 */
const grafanaJsxString = createGrafanaJsxString(
  <Dashboard title={"test-dashboard"}>
    <Annotations>
      <Annotation
        builtIn={0}
        datasource={"test-datasource-1"}
        name={"test-name-1"}
      />
      <Annotation
        builtIn={1}
        datasource={"test-datasource-2"}
        name={"test-name-2"}
      />
    </Annotations>
    <Links>
      <Link />
    </Links>
    <Panels>
      <Panel type={"test-type-1"} x={0} y={0} />
      <Panel type={"test-type-2"} x={0} y={9} />
    </Panels>
    <Templates>
      <Template />
    </Templates>
    <Time from={"now-12h"} to={"now-6h"} />
    <TimePicker />
  </Dashboard>
);
 
/**
 * You can then write the output to a file for use as code.
 */
 
const dashboardFileContents = `
import {
  Annotation,
  Annotations,
  Dashboard,
  Link,
  Links,
  Panel,
  Panels,
  Row,
  Template,
  Templates,
  Time,
  TimePicker
} from "grafana-jsx";
 
const MyDashboard = (
  ${grafanaJsxString}
);
 
export default MyDashboard;
`;
 
fs.writeFile("my-test-dashboard.js", dashboardFileContents, (error) => {
  if (error) {
    return console.error(error);
  }
 
  console.log("Dashboard JSX file succesfully written!");
});

Options

Argument	Description
json	The Grafana dashboard JSON that you wish to convert to a string of JSX.

Components

Annotation

Creates an annotation object.

const myAnnotation = (
  <Annotation
    builtIn={0}
    datasource={"myDatasource"}
    enable={true}
    hide={false}
    iconColor={"green"}
    name={"annotation-1"}
    type={"dashboard"}
  />
);

See the Grafana dashboard Annotation documentation for further details.

Annotations

Creates an annotations object. Expected to be composed with Annotation components.

const myAnnotations = (
  <Annotations>
    <Annotation />
  </Annotations>
);

See the Grafana dashboard Annotation documentation for further details.

Dashboard

Creates a Grafana dashboard object. Expected to be composed with other components.

const myDashboard = (
  <Dashboard
    editable={true}
    hideControls={false}
    graphTooltip={0}
    refresh={null}
    style={"light"}
    tags={["dashboard-tag-1"]}
    title={"my-dashboard-title"}
    timezone={"browser"}
    uid={null}
  >
    <Annotations>
      <Annotation />
    </Annotations>
  </Dashboard>
);

See the Grafana dashboard JSON documentation for further details.

Link

Creates a link object.

const myLink = <Link icon={"external link"} tags={[]} type={"dashboards"} />;

Links

Creates an links object. Expected to be composed with Link components.

const myLinks = (
  <Links>
    <Link />
  </Links>
);

Panel

Creates a panel object.

const myPanel = (
  <Panel
    type={"text"}
    title={"myPanel"}
    x={0}
    y={0}
    width={12}
    height={9}
    options={null}
  />
);

See the Grafana dashboard Panels documentation for further details.

Panels

Creates an panels object. Expected to be composed with Panel components.

const myPanels = (
  <Panels>
    <Panel />
  </Panels>
);

See the Grafana dashboard Panels documentation for further details.

Row

Creates a panel object of type row. Expected to be composed with Panel components.

const myRow = (
  <Row title={"myRow"} y={0} collapsed={true}>
    <Panel />
  </Row>
);

See the Grafana dashboard Panels documentation for further details.

Template

Creates a template object.

const myTemplate = (
  <Template
    allFormat={null}
    allValue={null}
    current={null}
    datasource={null}
    definition={null}
    hide={0}
    includeAll={false}
    label={null}
    multi={false}
    multiFormat={null}
    name={"region"}
    options={[]}
    query={null}
    refresh={0}
    regex={null}
    skipUrlSync={false}
    sort={0}
    tagValuesQuery={null}
    tags={[]}
    tagsQuery={null}
    type={"query"}
    useTags={false}
  />
);

See the Grafana dashboard Templating documentation for further details.

Templates

Creates an templates object. Expected to be composed with Template components.

const myTemplates = (
  <Templates enable={true}>
    <Template />
  </Templates>
);

See the Grafana dashboard Templating documentation for further details.

Time

Creates a time object.

const myTime = <Time from={"now-6h"} to={"now"} />;

See the Grafana dashboard JSON documentation for further details.

TimePicker

Creates a timepicker object.

const myTimepicker = (
  <TimePicker
    collapse={false}
    enable={true}
    notice={false}
    now={true}
    refreshIntervals={[
      "5s",
      "10s",
      "30s",
      "1m",
      "5m",
      "15m",
      "30m",
      "1h",
      "2h",
      "1d",
    ]}
    timeOptions={["5m", "15m", "1h", "6h", "12h", "24h", "2d", "7d", "30d"]}
    status={"Stable"}
    type={"timepicker"}
  />
);

See the Grafana dashboard Timepicker documentation for further details.

Developing

Install

yarn install --frozen-lockfile

Build

yarn build

Test

Unit & Integration Tests

yarn test

Storybook

Start the Grafana JSX Storybook instance:

yarn storybook

Refer to the Storybook README for further information.

Lint

yarn lint

Contributing

Please check out the CONTRIBUTING docs.

Changelog

Please check out the CHANGELOG docs.