Grafana Git Sync: manage dashboards as Code with Git.
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Grafana Git Sync: manage dashboards as Code with Git. By Shiva - 2 May 2026 Learn how Grafana Git Sync helps teams manage dashboards using Git. Track changes, collaborate better, automate deployments, and keep dashboards backed up with version control. Managing dashboards manually inside Grafana works well in the beginning. But as your infrastructure grows, handling multiple dashboards, teams, environments, and changes becomes difficult. To solve this, Grafana introduced Git Sync, a feature that allows you to manage dashboards using Git. Instead of relying only on the Grafana UI, your dashboards can now live inside a Git repository as code. What is Grafana Git Sync? Grafana Git Sync is a feature that connects your Grafana instance with a Git repository such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or any standard Git provider. Once connected, dashboards and folders can be stored as JSON files in Git. This means your monitoring setup can follow the same workflow as application code or infrastructure code. How Git Sync works. Git Sync works in both directions. * If you make changes in Grafana UI, those changes can be committed back to Git. * If someone updates dashboard files in Git, Grafana detects the changes and syncs them automatically. Grafana checks the repository regularly, and webhooks can be used for faster updates. Why Git Sync is useful. 1. Version control. Every...
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