Grafana Plugin for formae

Manage Grafana instance resources declaratively — dashboards, data sources, folders, alerting, teams, and service accounts. Works with both self-hosted Grafana and Grafana Cloud instances.

Supported Resources

Core

Resource Type	Description	Native ID
`GRAFANA::Core::Folder`	Dashboard folders with nested hierarchy support	`uid`
`GRAFANA::Core::Dashboard`	Dashboard definitions (JSON model)	`uid`
`GRAFANA::Core::DataSource`	Data source connections (Prometheus, Loki, etc.)	`uid`
`GRAFANA::Core::Team`	Teams for organizing users and permissions	`id`
`GRAFANA::Core::ServiceAccount`	Service accounts for programmatic API access	`id`

Alerting

Resource Type	Description	Native ID
`GRAFANA::Alerting::AlertRule`	Individual alert rules with query conditions	`uid`
`GRAFANA::Alerting::ContactPoint`	Notification channels (Slack, email, PagerDuty, etc.)	`uid`
`GRAFANA::Alerting::NotificationPolicy`	Alert routing tree (singleton per org)	`receiver`
`GRAFANA::Alerting::MuteTiming`	Time windows for suppressing notifications	`name`
`GRAFANA::Alerting::MessageTemplate`	Go templates for notification formatting	`name`

Configuration

Target

Configure a Grafana target in your forma file:

import "@grafana/grafana.pkl"

new formae.Target {
  label = "my-grafana"
  namespace = "GRAFANA"
  config = new grafana.Config {
    url = "https://grafana.example.com"
    // orgId = 1  // optional, defaults to token's org
  }
}

Credentials

Set the GRAFANA_AUTH environment variable. Supported formats:

Format	Example
Service account token	`glsa_xxxxxxxxxxxx`
API key (legacy)	`eyJrIjoi...`
Basic auth	`admin:password`

export GRAFANA_AUTH="glsa_your_service_account_token"

Examples

See the examples/ directory.

Basic — folder, data source, dashboard:

formae apply --mode reconcile --watch examples/basic/main.pkl

Alerting — contact points, mute timings, templates:

formae apply --mode reconcile --watch examples/alerting/main.pkl

Observability — LGTM stack via Docker Compose with Grafana dashboards provisioned through a target resolvable (requires formae >= 0.83.0 and formae-plugin-compose):

formae apply --mode reconcile --watch examples/observability/main.pkl

Licensing

Licensed under FSL-1.1-ALv2. See LICENSE.

platform.engineering/grafanaofficialv0.1.3stableresource