Grafana v12.1 dashboard support

[bperunx]

Is Grafana v12 already supported?

I get this error if I want to backup a v12 dashboard:

2025-08-21 18:01:38 ERR service/dashboards.go:364 unable to get Dashboard by UID err="[GET /dashboards/uid/{uid}][406] getDashboardByUidNotAcceptable {\"message\":\"dashboard api version not supported, use /apis/dashboard.grafana.app/v2alpha1/namespaces/default/dashboards/bpz82sq instead\"}" Dashboard-URI=db/new-dashboard

Thanks for this great tool!!

[safaci2000]

I haven't tested that version yet. All the tests pass against: 12.0.0-ubuntu but I'll see about testing this out.

I do see a PR grafana/grafana-openapi-client-go#122 waiting for the version you called out. Is there something specific that you know changed? Usually the "baseline" (my terminology) APIs aka get a dashboards / get a datasource haven't changed in a while, so I'd be surprised that it would stop working for a minor version bump.

[safaci2000]

Doing some basic testing:

gdg tools devel srvinfo
2025-08-23 20:12:06 INF  Database=ok
2025-08-23 20:12:06 INF  Commit=1fdeca10151ec766ff2e9e5eaf4c7d05b666dea4
2025-08-23 20:12:06 INF  Version=12.1.0

It doesn't seem to have any version specific issues. I just did a simple CRUD test:

gdg backup dashboards upload
gdg backup dashboards list
gdg backup dashboards download
gdg backup dashboards clear
gdg backup dashboards list

If you could give a bit more context, I might be able to help but it passes the basic sanity check.

[bperunx]

Sry for the very late response.

Here some more information:

• I use gdg 0.8.1 via brew (MAC)
• Grafana version is v12.1.0

Here my config file:

context_name: prod # please_define_via_env_var_GDG_CONTEXT_NAME

contexts:
  # --- Grafana "PROD" ---
  prod:
    url: https://grafana.mycomp.com
    user_name: admin
    password: TBD
    organization_name: "MyComp.com"
    output_path: exports
    watched:
      - ".*"

global:
  debug: true
  ignore_ssl_errors: false

After reconsidering, I remembered that I set the feature flag for the new, significantly improved dashboard editing experience (‘dashboardNewLayouts’):

# --- Feature Toggles ---
- name: GF_FEATURE_TOGGLES_ENABLE
  value: "provisioning,kubernetesClientDashboardsFolders,kubernetesDashboards,dashboardNewLayouts,grafanaAPIServerEnsureKubectlAccess"

After deactivating all feature toggles, everything worked well. So this is the issue.

So, it isn't a bug - due to the fact it is still an experimental feature toggle.
Maybe more of a feature request for the future ;)

See: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/observability-as-code/schema-v2/

You can close this issue - unless you want to create a feature request or similar.

THX for your investigation!

[safaci2000]

The proper regex support is a relatively recent change for watched folder. I think what you're doing should work but the typical pattern I suggested in the past was to use:

    dashboard_settings:
      ignore_filters: true # When set to true all Watched filtered folders will be ignored and ALL folders will be acted on

I think that will be a breaking change. Not sure exactly how to handle that or how grafana will. It makes sense for GDG to break since you essentially changed the language / format it speaks.

Thanks for calling this out. I will likely add that in when it goes stable. If you want to add any more context, there is this ticket that tried to capture this future change. #422