Caching not enabled by default?

[karl-johan-grahn]

I'm just curious, I though caching would be enabled by default but when I installed the datasource in Grafana Cloud, it is not enabled:

I added it via Terraform:

resource "grafana_data_source" "github_ds" {
  type = "grafana-github-datasource"
  name = "Grafana GitHub data source"
}

resource "grafana_data_source_config" "github_ds_config" {
  uid = grafana_data_source.github_ds.uid

  secure_json_data_encoded = jsonencode({
    accessToken = var.GRAFANA_GITHUB_DS_TOKEN
  })
}

So I have to configure to enable it, because it does not seem to be enabled by default?

[zoltanbedi]

It is not enabled by default. The datasource itself has caching built in, what you are seeing is caching in grafana cloud.

[karl-johan-grahn]

Can you clarify what the difference is between caching in the datasource itself and caching of the datasource in grafana cloud?