Weekly
Get a weekly list of changed dashboards
Each Sunday you get a record of which dashboards were edited that week, so changes don't go unnoticed.
- Runs
- Weekly
- Apps
- Grafana Cloud
- AI
- Not needed
- Access
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Sunday evening email me a list of Grafana dashboards that changed this week, with the version number and who saved it.
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Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Grafana dashboards are code-like assets that grow by accident. Someone tweaks a panel query during an incident, another person saves over a layout, and a few weeks later the on-call engineer cannot find the graph they remember. Without version control around your dashboards, a deleted folder or a bad import can erase months of careful work, and rebuilding from screenshots is miserable.
Once a week your Grafana Cloud dashboards are searched, each one's version is compared with the one stored from last time, and an email goes out describing what changed: which dashboards are new, edited or gone. It gives you a regular record of what your monitoring looked like.
It suits platform teams and small companies that rely on Grafana but have never set up provisioning or Git sync.
What you get out of it
A safety net against accidental edits
If a panel is overwritten or a dashboard is removed, you know within a week and which one it was, instead of discovering it during an outage. Knowing which one changed makes it easy to fix quickly.
Visibility into who is changing monitoring
A weekly list of edited dashboards shows when the monitoring setup shifts, which helps engineering leads keep standards. Engineering leads can see when the monitoring setup shifts, who tends to change what, and whether standards for naming and folders are being kept. A weekly list makes that conversation easy and factual.
Faster recovery from deletion
With a record of which dashboards existed and their versions, restoring a lost dashboard is a matter of finding it, not guessing. With a record of existing dashboards and their versions, restoring a lost one means finding it in the email, not reconstructing it from half-remembered queries and screenshots taken during an incident.
New dashboards get noticed
Newly created dashboards appear in the email, so duplicates and one-off experiments are visible before they clutter the folder. Newly created dashboards appear in the weekly email, so duplicates, test copies and one-off experiments are visible early. That keeps your shared folders from filling up with clutter that nobody owns.
Evidence for reviews after incidents
When asking what the graphs looked like on a given week, you have a dated email to answer with. When someone asks what a graph looked like a few weeks back, there is a dated email that answers the question, and a record to learn from after an incident review.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every Sunday, ClickRuntime goes through your Grafana dashboards and checks each one's version number.
It compares them with the versions it saved last week to find the dashboards that were edited.
You get an email listing each changed dashboard with its new version, who changed it and when. The new versions are saved for next week's check.
Before it runs live
- Connect Grafana Cloud
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
- Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Grafana Cloud steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, notify
GRAFANA = "https://acme.grafana.net"
@on_trigger
def run(event):
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.secret('GRAFANA_TOKEN')}"}
since = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=7)
found = http.get(f"{GRAFANA}/api/search", params={"type": "dash-db", "limit": 5000}, headers=headers).json()
changed = []
for d in found:
full = http.get(f"{GRAFANA}/api/dashboards/uid/{d['uid']}", headers=headers).json()
updated = datetime.fromisoformat(full["meta"]["updated"].replace("Z", "+00:00"))
if updated >= since:
changed.append(f"{d['title']}: v{full['dashboard']['version']} by {full['meta']['updatedBy']} "
f"on {updated:%a %d %b}\n {GRAFANA}{d['url']}")
notify.email_me(f"{len(changed)} Grafana dashboards changed this week", "\n".join(changed) or "No changes.")
return {"changed": len(changed), "total": len(found)}FAQ
Common questions
Does the email contain the full dashboard JSON?
Does it need a Grafana Cloud admin account?
What if nothing changed this week?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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