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title: "Import and export your Grafana dashboards"
slug: "import-and-export-your-grafana-dashboards"
abstract: "Learn how to import and export your Grafana dashboards."
---
# Import and export your Grafana dashboards

Grafana is open source visualization and analytics software that lets you query and visualize your time-series database data. This topic describes how to import and export your Grafana dashboards to be able to share these.

Sitecore role(s) specific dashboard for Content Delivery and Content Management.

![MCC-Grafana-scdashboards.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/101/managed-cloud/images/MCC-Grafana-scdashboards.png)

![MCC-Grafana-contentdelivery-dashboard.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/101/managed-cloud/images/MCC-Grafana-contentdelivery-dashboard.png)

![MCC-Grafana-contentdelivery-dashboard-errorrate.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/101/managed-cloud/images/MCC-Grafana-contentdelivery-dashboard-errorrate.png)

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<summary><h2>Add custom Grafana dashboards</h2></summary>

> [!tip]
> You must have a Grafana account with admin rights to perform the steps described in this section.

To add a custom Grafana dashboard:

1. Login to Grafana and [create a new dashboard](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/build-dashboards/create-dashboard/).
2. Export your dashboard to json file. See [Granfana documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/dashboards/export-import/#exporting-a-dashboard) to find out how to do this.
3. Put the exported file under the `grafana-dashboards/` folder.
4. Run the Application pipeline.

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<details>
<summary><h2>Export your Grafana dashboard</h2></summary>

> [!note]
> You must have a (free) [Grafana account](https://grafana.com/signup/starter/connect-account?pg=graf-contribute&amp;plcmt=start-banner) to perform the steps described in this section.

To export Grafana dashboards:

1. Create a dashboard in a Grafana instance and save it.
2. In the dashboard menu, click **Share dashboard** to export the dashboard to your computer.

    On the Export tab, enable to share externally and click **Save to file**.

    ![MC-Grafana-Share.png](https://doc.sitecore.com/api/markdown-image/xp/en/developers/101/managed-cloud/images/MC-Grafana-Share.png)

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<details>
<summary><h2>Upload your Grafana dashboard</h2></summary>

To share your Grafana dashboard:

1. Go to Grafana's official and community build [dashboards page](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards).
2. In the bottom left panel, click **Upload a dashboard**.
3. In the **Upload dashboard** dialog box, click **select dashboard.json file** to locate the dashboard on your computer.
4. Click **Upload dashboard**.
5. On the dashboard settings page, fill in the details and click **Save and Publish**.

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<details>
<summary><h2>Import a Grafana dashboard</h2></summary>

> [!important]
> You must have a Grafana account with admin rights to perform the steps described in this section.

To import the Grafana dashboard to solution:

1. On the create tab, select **Import**.
2. Paste the ID of the dashboard you want to import and click **Load**.
3. Select the Data Source as Prometheus and click **Import**.

    > [!note]
    > Prometheus is an open source systems monitoring system for which Grafana provides out-of-the-box support.

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