Grafana JSON config generator for NCAR 3D CHORDS platform

A simple Python script and Jinja2 template that automatically generates a Grafana JSON config from a station ID in CHORDS.

Installation

Clone the repo.

git clone https://github.com/ndusek/chords-grafana-config-generator.git
cd chords-grafana-config-generator

Optionally create a virtual environment to isolate dependencies.

python3 -m venv chords
source chords/bin/activate

Install dependencies.

pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Generating a config

Help menu:

python3 gen_grafana_config.py -h

Output:

usage: gen_grafana_config.py [-h] instrumentID dashboardID

Generate Grafana JSON config for a station in CHORDS

positional arguments:
  instrumentID  Instrument (i.e. station) ID from CHORDS
  dashboardID   Dashboard ID from Grafana JSON config

optional arguments:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit

The instrumentID is assigned in the CHORDS portal. The dashboardID is assigned in Grafana automatically when a new dashboard is created, and can be found by viewing the dashboard JSON config.

Example:

python3 gen_grafana_config.py 94 0YAdYui4z

Output:

Wrote Grafana config to NDSU_03_grafana_config.json

Now just import the above config in Grafana and overwrite the existing (blank) config.