Amazon Managed Grafana Migrator

🎉 May-15-24: v0.2.0 supports Grafana Service Accounts for v9 and v10 workspaces. See Amazon Managed Grafana announces support for Grafana version 10.4

🚨 Jul-25-23: Alerts migration are currently disabled with v0.1.9. See #19

🎉 Jul-19-23: Amazon Grafana supports now in-place update from v8.4 to v9.4

Amazon Managed Grafana Migrator is a CLI migration utility to migrate Grafana content (data sources, dashboards, folders and alert rules) to Amazon Managed Grafana. It supports the following migration scenarios:

• Migrating from and to Amazon Managed Grafana Workspace (eg. Moving to v10.4), although consider using the native functionality in the AWS Console, after testing
• Migrating from a Grafana server to an Amazon Managed Grafana Workspace

Amazon Managed Grafana v10.4 workspaces will require to provide an ADMIN level Grafana Service Account with the --src-service-account-id or --src-service-account-id flags.

Installation

Build from latest release. This requires Go (1.21 +) installed on your environement.

go install github.com/aws-observability/amazon-managed-grafana-migrator@latest

This command above will build the binary into your Go path ($HOME/go/bin). Make sure to add your Go bin in your $PATH to run the command. For Linux, this is usually export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin.

You can also download the pre-compiled binary for your OS and CPU architecture from our GitHub releases.

Example on Amazon Linux:

wget https://github.com/aws-observability/amazon-managed-grafana-migrator/releases/download/v0.1.11/amazon-managed-grafana-migrator-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf amazon-managed-grafana-migrator-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv amazon-managed-grafana-migrator /usr/local/bin/
amazon-managed-grafana-migrator -v

Usage

Discovering your Workspaces

amazon-managed-grafana-migrator discover --region eu-west-1

Migrating to Amazon Managed Grafana v10

v9 and v10 introduced Grafana Service Accounts which will be required by the migrator, especially for v10. Note that Service Accounts are billed as active users

1. Creating a Service Account

 aws grafana create-workspace-service-account --workspace-id g-abcdef5678 \
    --grafana-role ADMIN \
    --name <SA_NAME_HERE>

2. Running the migration

amazon-managed-grafana-migrator migrate \
  --src-url https://grafana.example.com/
  --src-api-key API_KEY_HERE
  --dst g-abcdef5678.grafana-workspace.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
  --dst-service-account-id SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID_HERE

Migrating between Workspaces

amazon-managed-grafana-migrator migrate \
  --src g-abcdef1234.grafana-workspace.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com \
  --dst g-abcdef5678.grafana-workspace.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

Or for v9+ workspaces:

amazon-managed-grafana-migrator migrate \
  --src g-abcdef1234.grafana-workspace.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com \
  --src-service-account-id SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID_HERE
  --dst g-abcdef5678.grafana-workspace.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
  --dst-service-account-id SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID_HERE

Migrating to Amazon Managed Grafana v8/v9

amazon-managed-grafana-migrator migrate \
  --src-url https://grafana.example.com/
  --src-api-key API_KEY_HERE
  --dst g-abcdef5678.grafana-workspace.us-west-2.amazonaws.com

Getting help

amazon-managed-grafana-migrator --help

# command specific help
amazon-managed-grafana-migrator migrate --help

Permissions

To run this tool you need AWS permissions through IAM. Make sure you have the AWS command line tool installed and have already run aws configure before you start. Below are the minimum permissions required by the tool:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "grafana:DescribeWorkspace",
                "grafana:CreateWorkspaceApiKey",
                "grafana:DeleteWorkspaceApiKey",
                "grafana:CreateWorkspaceServiceAccountToken",
                "grafana:DeleteWorkspaceServiceAccountToken"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:grafana:*:<ACCOUNT_ID>:/workspaces/<WORKSPACE_ID>"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "grafana:ListWorkspaces",
            "Resource": "*"
        }
    ]
}

If you a migrating from a Grafana server, you will need an active API Key with "ADMIN" role.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING for more information.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.