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I'm using Grafana for one of my hobby projects which is also deployed to a public-facing server.

I am the only user of Grafana as it is supposed to be read-only for anonymous access.

My current workflow is:

1. Run Grafana locally.
2. Make changes to local dashboards, data-sources, ...
3. Stop local Grafana.
4. Stop remote Grafana.
5. Copy local grafana.db to the remote machine.
6. Start remote Grafana.
7. Goto (1)

However this feels terribly inefficient and stupid to my mind 😅

To automate parts of this process, I tried gdg and grafana-backup-tool.

I couldn't get the former to work w/ my workflow (local storage) as it barfed at the very start w/ the infamous "invalid cross-device link" Go error.

The latter seems to work but only partially; for example organisations are not exported.

❓ Given I may switch to PostgreSQL as Grafana's DB in the near future, my question is, what is

Update

Turned out I didn't need to convert any series to gauges at all!

The problem was that I had botched my Prometheus configuration and it wasn't ingesting the probe results properly 🤦‍♂️ Once I fixed that, I got all the details I needed.

For posterity you can view lemmy-meter's configuration on github.

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I'm using blackbox_exporter to monitor a dozen of websites' performance. And that is working just fine for measuring RTT and error rates.

I'm thinking about creating a single gauge for each website indicating whether it is up or down.

I haven't been able to find any convincing resource as to if it is mathematically correct to convert such series to guages/counters - let alone how to do that.

So my questions are

• Have I missed a relevant option in blackbox_exporter configurations?
• Do you rec