Provisioning Grafana dashboards

[PabloCastellano]

Hello. Thanks for sharing this project. I just found it out and it is very useful and well made 💪

However I found it weird that no dashboards are preloaded in Grafana. It is on purpose or are they somewhere else?

eth-docker has a nice and curated list of dashboards that are automatically provisioned using this script.

Would you accept a PR to include them in this role too?

[karolpivo]

Hi,

I'm glad you find it useful. We considered including dashboards but in the end we decided to leave it up to the user. There are a lot of dashboards if we consider all the clients and some clients have multiple official dashboards. Keeping them up to date quickly becomes difficult to manage. As a middle ground, we could include the generic Ethereum Metric Exporter dashboard - this works with all clients. It does not provide low level metrics but it does tell you what the node is doing. One thing to consider is that the task to provision the dashboard must be idempotent. We wouldn't like to overwrite the dashboard when the role runs if someone makes changes in the UI.

We would be more than happy to accept a PR.