k8s-grafana-troubleshooting SKILL.md skillA
k8s-grafana-troubleshooting from k8s-servant/k8s-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-grafana-troubleshooting@git:20261024.161b979Pins git:20261024.161b979 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- k8s-servant/k8s-skills
- Path
skills/k8s-grafana-troubleshooting/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261024.161b979, committed Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 10,080 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when Grafana on Kubernetes fails: the Grafana pod crash-loops after a change to its provisioning ("Datasource provisioning error", "Only one datasource per organization can be marked as default", "failed to parse"), a provisioned dashboard or datasource does not appear ("failed to load dashboard from", sidecar ConfigMap labels), panels show "No data" or the datasource returns "Bad Gateway" or "connection refused", "database is locked" with several replicas, permission errors on the data…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Grafana troubleshooting Find out why Grafana does not start, does not show a datasource or dashboard, or shows no data, and propose a fix. **Read first, ask before changing.** Run the investigation commands freely. Run a command under an "Ask first" line only after the user approves that exact command; if your credentials do not allow it, give it to the user to run. Never run a "Proposed fix"; hand it to the user. On Kubernetes, Grafana is usually **provisioned**: datasources and dashboard providers are YAML files under `/etc/grafana/provisioning/`, and dashboards are JSON files, all mounted from ConfigMaps. With the Grafana Helm chart (also inside kube-prometheus-stack) a **sidecar** container copies ConfigMaps labelled `grafana_dashboard` or `grafana_datasource` into the pod. With the **grafana-operator**, `Grafana`, `GrafanaDashboard` and `GrafanaDatasource` resources do the same. The commands use placeholders: `monitoring` (where Grafana runs), `my-grafana` (its Deployment and Service), `my-grafana-datasources` and `my-grafana-dashboards` (its ConfigMaps) and `my-app` (a dashboard). Replace them with the real names. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-grafana-troubleshooting@sha256:7cac9fc4dc366915The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.161b979, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 24, 2026.
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Source
k8s-servant/k8s-skills · 35 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u6d74m7cskyeozw2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=k8s-servant/k8s-skills/k8s-grafana-troubleshooting GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7cac9fc4dc366915cd518397da3ff409c214e285d8577c58bb77a58f43964bae
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