Dashboard extraction failures do not result in a failure (non-zero) exit code

[bjhartin]

When I run:

grafana-sync pull-dashboards --apikey=GRAFANA_API_KEY --directory=dashboards --url=GRAFANA_URL

Some dashboards cannot be retrieved (for which I may raise another issue). See:

2022/01/05 09:49:16 unmarshal board: json: cannot unmarshal object into Go struct field Board.panels of type string for db/dashboard1

The exit code is still 0, however. I had build an automated job to backup the dashboards and it has been 'green' despite these failures because the exit code from grafana-sync was 0. Can this be changed?

[mpostument]

Thank you for submitting the issue. I will try to fix this in the next few days

[bjhartin]

Is there a way to get more info about why these can't sync? Over the last week or two, grafana-sync has produced more of these errors and now most of my dashboards aren't syncing. Is this a matter of a panel that has attributes the code doesn't expect?

[mpostument]

There is issue opened for grafana sdk. But it is not resolved now
grafana-tools/sdk#130

[mpostument]

Maybe this would solve it - grafana-tools/sdk#130

[bjhartin]

@mpostument I'm curious - if the goal is to extract the json for backup/restore, why even map it to any data structure other than 'json'/'string'?

For now I've switched to CURLing the API to avoid mapping errors.

[mpostument]

@bjhartin I don't have an answer for that, this is how SDK is working.

[mpostument]

I created new version which should return correct status code in case of failure
https://github.com/mpostument/grafana-sync/releases/tag/1.4.5
https://github.com/mpostument/grafana-sync/pkgs/container/grafana-sync/14663124?tag=1.4.5