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In this article, you learn how to copy a saved Azure Monitor dashboard with Grafana to either a new or existing Azure Managed Grafana workspace. By following this copy process, your dashboard panels, queries, and layout are preserved, so you can move to Azure Managed Grafana without recreating them.
Migrate your dashboards to Azure Managed Grafana when you need capabilities that Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana doesn't support, such as alerts, scheduled reports, external data sources, or private networking. For a full list, see Limitations.
Note
This guide applies to user-saved dashboards. Azure-managed template dashboards can't be copied directly. To copy a template dashboard:
- Save it so it becomes a user-saved dashboard.
- Copy the saved version.
For more information, see Save a copy of a dashboard.
Prerequisites
Review known limitations before starting.
A user-saved dashboard in Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana.
The Grafana Editor or Grafana Admin role on the target Azure Managed Grafana instance.
- When copying to an existing instance, the user must already have the Grafana Editor or Grafana Admin role on that instance.
- When copying to a new instance, the Grafana Admin role is automatically assigned to the current user.
For more information, see Azure RBAC.
Copy to an existing Azure Managed Grafana instance
Open a user-saved dashboard in Dashboards with Grafana.
Select Copy to Managed Grafana in the toolbar. A side pane opens.
In the side pane, select an existing Azure Managed Grafana workspace from the Azure Managed Grafana dropdown list.
Select Copy.
The deployment starts. Track progress in the Azure portal Notifications.
When the deployment is complete, select the link in the notification to open the copied dashboard in the Grafana instance.
Copy to a new Azure Managed Grafana instance
Open a user-saved dashboard in Dashboards with Grafana.
Select Copy to Managed Grafana in the toolbar. A side pane opens.
In the side pane, select Create new to open the creation pane.
Configure the required details for the new Azure Managed Grafana workspace:
- Workspace name - Enter a name for the new workspace.
- Region - Select the Azure region for the workspace.
Select Create. The creation pane closes and the new workspace name is populated in the Azure Managed Grafana field on the side pane.
Note
Selecting Create in the creation pane saves the configuration but doesn't provision the new Azure Managed Grafana workspace yet. Provisioning begins when you select Copy in the next step.
Select Copy on the side pane. The deployment starts. Two deployment tasks appear in the Azure portal Notifications:
- Azure Managed Grafana workspace provisioning - Includes a link to the new Azure Managed Grafana resource after completion.
- Dashboard copy - Includes a direct link to the copied Grafana dashboard after completion.
When both deployments are complete, select the dashboard link in the notification to open the copied dashboard in the new Grafana instance.
Known behaviors and limitations
Review the following known behaviors and limitations before you copy a dashboard to Azure Managed Grafana.
Azure managed template dashboards can't be copied directly
The Copy to Managed Grafana button isn't available on Azure managed template dashboards because they're provisioned static content and not ARM resources. Save the dashboard first to create a user-saved copy, and then copy that version. For more information, see Save a copy of a dashboard.
Data sources aren't migrated
The copy process doesn't create, configure, or map data sources in the destination instance. Only the Azure Monitor data source works out of the box. Other data sources, such as Azure Data Explorer or Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus, must be manually configured in the target Azure Managed Grafana instance after the copy.
Tip
Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana uses the current user's identity to authenticate to data sources. When configuring data sources in the destination instance, consider selecting Current User as the authentication method so the dashboard behaves the same way as the original.
Destination folder can't be selected
The copied dashboard is placed in the root folder of the Grafana instance. If a dashboard with the same identity already exists in a different folder, the copy is placed in that folder instead.
Existing dashboards might be overwritten
Caution
If the target instance already contains a dashboard with the same identity, the copy operation overwrites it without prompting for confirmation. Verify that no dashboard you want to keep uses the same identity before you start the copy.