[Feature] ability to output dashboard/alerts configuration

[lpmi-13]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I used this tool very successfully for migrating workspaces, though during the process, I also realized that we don't currently store any "backups" of our dashboard/alert configuration. I've used other OSS tooling for dealing with dashboards in an automated way, but nothing is as slick as this one, so I was thinking about modelling something on it to get us an output of our entire workspace configuration...but if there's a way to do it in this tool, then that would be even better.

It's highly likely this isn't appropriate for the nature of this project, but I thought I'd ask anyway. 😸

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd love a secondary command to output to a local directory the configuration of our dashboards and alerts. Something like:

amazon-managed-grafana-migrator output \
    --src g-abcdef1234.grafana-workspace.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com \
    --folder workspace-backup

and I suppose that would be even more useful if there were some way to configure dashboards/alerts in a fresh workspace based on local configuration (but now this is serious scope creep 😆 )

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've considered using other tooling like https://github.com/Beam-Connectivity/grafana-dashboard-manager, but that doesn't seem to support alerts, and it's also not as smooth of a DX as this tool.

I've also considered just rolling my own, probably heavily based on the implementation here, because there are lots of nice things about it (progress in the terminal, temporary credentials, handles both dashboards and alerts).

Additional context

As I mentioned, I'm expecting this request won't be appropriate for this particular project, since it's only titled "amazon-managed-grafana-migrator", but no harm in asking. I'd even be willing to submit a PR myself, though I'm definitely by no means an expert Go developer.

Thanks again for this super cool tool...it saved me a lot of time 👍

[bonclay7]

Thanks for the feedback @lpmi-13. There's another cool AWS project that might help with that, focusing on backup and restore. Although I'm not sure it does alerting rules yet. Let me know if that's helpful

[lpmi-13]

oh cool! I'll definitely check that out. Thanks 🙇

[bonclay7]

Will close this for now and let's see if we can revisit in the future