Using grizzly

[NicoAdrian]

Can grafonnet be used with grizzly ? I can an error when trying to use the grr preview command: FATA[0000] recursion did not resolve in a valid Kubernetes object. In path '.' found key 'schemaVersion' of type 'float64' instead.

Any idea ?

[malcolmholmes]

You also need to use it with github.com/grafana/jsonnet-libs/grizzly to wrap the grafonnet object in a k8s style object.

[NicoAdrian]

Thanks for the swift answer.

I just installed it using jb install github.com/grafana/jsonnet-libs/grizzly. Is it the right way ?

My dashboard.jsonnet looks like this:

local grafonnet = import 'github.com/grafana/grafonnet/gen/grafonnet-latest/main.libsonnet';

grafonnet.dashboard.new('My Dashboard')

Can you please provide me an example of how to "wrap" the grafonnet object ?

[NicoAdrian]

I did this:

local grafonnet = import 'github.com/grafana/grafonnet/gen/grafonnet-latest/main.libsonnet';
local grizzly = import 'grizzly/grizzly.libsonnet';

grizzly.fromPrometheusKsonnet(grafonnet.dashboard.new('My Dashboard'))

But when running this command jsonnet -J vendor dashboard.jsonnet I get this error:

RUNTIME ERROR: Field does not exist: grafanaDashboards
    vendor/grizzly/grizzly.libsonnet:11:30-52   thunk from <object <anonymous>>
    vendor/grizzly/grafana.libsonnet:14:31-41   thunk from <function <anonymous>>
    <std>:1539:24-25    thunk from <function <anonymous>>
    <std>:1539:5-33 function <anonymous>
    vendor/grizzly/grafana.libsonnet:14:14-42   function <anonymous>
    vendor/grizzly/grafana.libsonnet:(7:33)-(15:4)
    vendor/grizzly/grafana.libsonnet:(7:33)-(15:4)
    vendor/grizzly/grizzly.libsonnet:11:14-70   object <anonymous>
    Field "grafana"
    During manifestation

[NicoAdrian]

I managed to make it work with this:

local g = import 'github.com/grafana/grafonnet/gen/grafonnet-latest/main.libsonnet';
local grizzly = import 'grizzly/grizzly.libsonnet';

grizzly.dashboard.new("Test", g.dashboard.new('My Dashboard'))

[joanlopez]

For future readers, some time ago I created minimal working example of Grafonnet in combination with Grizzly, which is available here: https://github.com/joanlopez/grafonnet-example

[NicoAdrian]

@joanlopez Maybe you can help me on this one:

With the previous grafonnet version grafonnet-lib, I could specify the grafana folder I wanted my dashboards to be pushed to with grizzly.

{
  grafanaDashboardFolder:: 'SomeFolder',
  grafanaDashboards:: {
    foo: import 'myDashboard.libsonnet',
  }
}

Now, with the new Grafonnet here, I can't find a way to do the same thing. What am I missing ?

[joanlopez]

As far as I can tell, it looks like grafanaDashboardFolder is still being used in combination with grafanaDashboards (see https://github.com/grafana/grizzly/blob/main/pkg/grizzly/grizzly.jsonnet#L32), but that's Grizzly bits, so I'm not sure how the interoperability between that and the new Grafonnet might have been affected.

I think that's a better question for either @Duologic or @malcolmholmes. Sorry for not being to shed some light! 🙏🏻

[malcolmholmes]

You set a folder metadata element on your k8s style object. Perhaps there is also a withFolder function in the grizzly lib?