Creating folders in Grafana using values.yaml for Dashboard

Monitoring and Observability Grafana
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Hi team, I need to create two folders for dashboard in grafana using values.yaml, I found a reference in google but not understanding where to use exact in values.yaml
github issue: https://github.com/helm/charts/issues/10183
dashboardProviders:
dashboardproviders.yaml:
apiVersion: 1
providers:
- name: ‘A’
orgId: 1
folder: ‘A’
type: file
disableDeletion: false
editable: true
options:
path: /tmp/dashboards/a
- name: ‘B’
orgId: 1
folder: ‘B’
type: file
disableDeletion: false
editable: true
options:
path: /tmp/dashboards/b

2

After doing multiple pocs, I have found the way to create custom folder using values.yaml, to keep dashboards as a isolated from other datasource dashboards.

3

Like prometheus datasource related all dashboards in SRE folder and loki datasource related all dashboards in monitoring folder. check below screenshoot.

4

Grafana:

dashboardProviders:
dashboardproviders.yaml:
apiVersion: 1
providers:
- name: ‘promscale’
orgId: 1
folder: ‘monitoring’
type: file
disableDeletion: false
editable: true
options:
path: /tmp/dashboards

using above code we can able to create custom folder as in screenshoot “monitoring”

5

Sidecar:

dashboards:
  enabled: true
  label: grafana_dashboard
  labelValue: "1"

  ## Annotations for Grafana dashboard configmaps
  ##
  annotations: {}
  multicluster:
    global:
      enabled: false
    etcd:
      enabled: false
  provider:
      allowUiUpdates: true
      folder: SRE

Using above code it will create default folder.
note: we have changed here default folder name with SRE.