Trying Out Grafana's Git Sync Feature (OSS Edition)
This post is Day 11 of the Grafana Advent Calendar 2025. Have you ever experienced any of these while using Grafana? “The dashboard was working yesterday… did someone change it?” “I want to revert it, but I don’t know what was changed…” “The dashboards in production and staging environments have drifted apart” Until now, Grafana didn’t have a native feature to sync dashboards with Git. As a result, managing dashboards required workarounds like exporting to JSON and managing in Git, using external tools like Terraform or Grizzly (now deprecated), or writing custom scripts via the API—all of which were quite cumbersome. That’s why the introduction of the Git Sync feature in Grafana 12 is such a big deal. ...