version v0.6

Release Notes for v0.6.0

Release Date: 03/11/2024

This is a major release, so once again doing some cleanups and introducing some breaking changes. Please use version v0.5.2 if you wish to maintain backward compatibility. Previous version organized downloads by org_id. Example an export for dashboards would be stored in export/org_1/dashboards. The org ID is inconsistent and something that cannot be guaranteed across installations of grafana. Instead, we’ve switched over to using a slug of the OrgName. The default dashboard backup will go in: export/org_main-org/dashboards.
Caution
If you renamed the default organization to something else besides Main Org., be sure to set organization_name in your config, otherwise nothing will work.
The import/export dashboards keyword provided confusion. It has been phased out bit by bit. In version 0.6 all references have now been removed. Import has been renamed to download, and export is now upload.
organization_id is deprecated in the importer config in favor of organization_name.

Retry logic. You can now set a number of retry_count and retry_delay in the configuration that retries failed API calls
User upload now has the ability to generate random passwords. (Please be aware that those values can’t be recreated)
JSON output has been added. This can be somewhat unstructured but is available to the user. --output json with the default rendering being table format.
Linter support! (Beta) Grafana official linter has been added to GDG tools dashboard lint.
gdg-generate CLI behavior has been updated to better mimic what gdg is already doing. Restructuring into subcommands.
Org Preferences can now be retrieved when listing Orgs. --with-preferences
Caution
This is a heavy call currently till this issue is resolved. Use with caution if you have many Organizations in your grafana instance.

#192 Dropping support for various entities. import/export no longer supported. Removed warning for datasources (Deprecated config). Removed AlertNotification as it’s been deprecated from grafana for a while now.
#254 #258 org_id usage has been deprecated. Switching mainly using orgName / SlugName to allow for a more consistent experience between grafana installations. Change affects gdg and gdg-generate
User import now has support for random password generator. Only printed upon import.
#259 Adding support for Org Properties. Allowing a user to update a given orgs properties. Data also added to org Listing.
#251 Adding a dashboard linter tool. The official grafana is recommended, but GDG will provide similar functionality.

#253 In order to manage orgs, the grafana admin that is configured needs to be a part of all organizations. This ticket adds a sanity check to ensure that the configured Grafana Admin is part of all known organizations. It then programmatically adds the user (if user confirms and the feature is supported), otherwise gdg will list all orgs that the user needs to be added.