Observe Dashboard Terraform

This script is to ease the process of exporting an existing dashboard from Observe and placing that into an exiting terraform repository.

Requirements

• Python 3
• The following Python modules
  • requests
  • requests_toolbelt
  • gql

Usage

First configure the config.ini file with a block for the source tenant for the dashboard

[example]
customer_id = 12345678910
user_email = [email protected]
user_password = thisISaPASSWORD
domain = observeinc.com

customer_id is the string of digits at the start of your Observe URL, domain is from the rest of the domain. For example for the following Observe URL https://1111333444.eu-1.observeinc.com then customer_id is 1111333444 and domain is eu-1.observeinc.com. Username and password are you access credentials.

To perform en export, an example is the following

./write_terraform.py -c ./config.ini -e example -w 41006584 -d 41570960

Where:

• -c is the path to config.ini
• -e is the environment block in the config.ini file
• -w is the workspace id, this appears in the dashboard URL right after /workspace/
• -d is the dashboard id, this appears at the end of the dashboard URL, note this may be a comma separated list of dashboard IDs, e.g. -d 12345678,90123456,67890123

This is the dashboard URL for the above example https://12345678910.observeinc.com/workspace/41006584/dashboard/System-Overview-41570960

This will produce a directory called terraform_generated, this contains 3 items to move into the target Terraform modules

• i_41570960.tf, where the ID matches that of the dashboard, this is the TF definition
• json_files, this contains the JSON defintion of the dashboard, this is referened from the above tf file
• locals.tf, this contains the variables that will be populated into the defintion