[HELP] downloading fails w/ invalid cross-device link

[bahmanm]

I'm testing out gdg to see if I can use it in my hobby project.

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I've got a simple config as below:

context_name: testing

contexts:
  testing:
    output_path: _build/gdg
    url: http://localhost:3000
    user_name: admin
    password: admin
    filter_override:
      ignore_dashboard_filters: false
    watched:
      - Instance Health

global:
  debug: true
  ignore_ssl_errors: true

I can list all the resources in Grafana w/o any problems. However I don't seem to be able to download any resource as all of them fail w/ the infamous invalid cross-device link.

For example:

gdg backup dashboards download
ERRO[0000] blob (key "instance-health-breakdown.json") (code=Unknown): rename /tmp/instance-health-breakdown.json.1789b080b87ecfd2.tmp /home/bahman/workspace/lemmy-meter/lemmy-meter/_build/gdg/org_1/dashboards/Instance Health/instance-health-breakdown.json: invalid cross-device link for instance-health-breakdown 
ERRO[0000] blob (key "lemmy-meter-info.json") (code=Unknown): rename /tmp/lemmy-meter-info.json.1789b080bab9dd6c.tmp /home/bahman/workspace/lemmy-meter/lemmy-meter/_build/gdg/org_1/dashboards/Instance Health/lemmy-meter-info.json: invalid cross-device link for lemmy-meter-info 
INFO[0000] Importing dashboards for context: 'testing'  
┌──────┬──────────┐
│ TYPE │ FILENAME │
├──────┼──────────┤
└──────┴──────────┘

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Do you think this is a configuration issue? Have I missed anything obvious?

[madhur]

The fix for this was merged recently #195 .

[bahmanm]

Alright. Let me give it a shot and get back to you.

[bahmanm]

"latest" didn't work as I think it's already pointing to v0.5.0.

However, building from source did the trick 🙌 Thanks 🙏

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PS: You're using Task instead of GNU Make! And it uses YAML 🤯 May the gods be w/ you 😂

[csg33k]

Yah, Taskfile is nice. It's not available everywhere but so much cleaner than a Makefile. :-) I have a few more tickets to resolve before 0.5.1 release but once

[madhur]

@csg33k Can you assign couple of tickets to me? I am looking to learn Go and contribute to open source.

[csg33k]

Anything relating to documentation is always great. I have blinders on since i'm the one writing this. So if there's anything that could make it easier to follow / understand would be great for myself and others.

Code wise, here's a few options.

I'll throw this in, #134 as an option. Maybe just pick a small subset of that ticket. Alert Notifications have been deprecated for a while and need to be updated.

There a few a different entity types related, maybe just start with contact points.

gdg backup alerting contactpoints {list/download/upload/clear)

For API docs, You can navigate to: https://petstore.swagger.io/ and paste in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grafana/grafana/main/public/openapi3.json to see the Grafana API docs. There is also this, https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/alerting_provisioning/ though swagger is probably a bit more accurate.

Option 2. #193 is probably the simplest one I can think of. If you are familiar with Organizations in Grafana, GDG needs a way to ensure have a way to override the default watched folders for a given Org.

The issue I was running into is where you have two orgs containing the same folder, where Org1 was it excluded and Org2 needs it included there is not pattern except renaming the folders to avoid name collision.

So the initial idea is having something like:

org_settings:
org_:
dashboards:
- title
- title2

   where you only need to include those if you run into this type of issue, otherwise the user can ignore those settings.

Option 3. I don't have a ticket for this, but I was looking at using https://github.com/ory/dockertest to drive tests instead of relying on the CI or docker compose to bring up grafana. It would make the experience a bit more seamless.