From ccfe9de014406bd818f4184e09700565ec3717f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lee Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:55:11 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add intro paragraph to provisioning page --- docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md b/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md index a8cb9fe3023..d072368bd87 100644 --- a/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md +++ b/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ weight = 8 # Provisioning Grafana +In previous versions of Grafana, you could only use the API for provisioning data sources and dashboards. But that required the service to be running before you started creating dashboards and you also needed to set up credentials for the HTTP API. In v5.0 we decided to improve this experience by adding a new active provisioning system that uses config files. This will make GitOps more natural as data sources and dashboards can be defined via files that can be version controlled. We hope to extend this system to later add support for users, orgs and alerts as well. + ## Config file Checkout the [configuration](/installation/configuration) page for more information on what you can configure in `grafana.ini`