Dashport — Charles Strahan

Dashport adds the missing "import" half of Grafana's dashboard-as-code workflow: Grafana lets you export a dashboard's JSON model, but has no built-in way to load edited JSON back into a session. Dashport fills that gap.

This is an unofficial, third-party extension and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Grafana Labs.

What you can do

• Export the current dashboard's JSON — download it as a file or copy it to the clipboard.
• Import JSON back into Grafana — drag-and-drop a file, use the file picker, or paste. The page reloads with your dashboard ready to review and save.

Typical workflow

1. Export a dashboard's JSON.
2. Edit it, commit it to your repo, or just stash it for later.
3. Import it back in — enter edit mode and save to persist your changes.

Accepts both the raw dashboard model ({"title": ..., "panels": [...]}) and the full API response format ({"meta": ..., "dashboard": ...}).

How it works

Dashport operates at the network layer, intercepting Grafana's internal dashboard API call and substituting your JSON on reload — so there are no race conditions with Grafana's own scripts. On Chrome it uses declarativeNetRequest; on Firefox it uses webRequest response filtering.

Notes

• The export feature targets Grafana 10+ (Scenes framework). Import works with older versions too.
• Grafana can be self-hosted on any domain, so the extension requests broad host access to detect dashboard pages.
• No data is collected or transmitted — everything happens locally in your browser.