Just the other day I ran again into a dashboard set to use browser time as opposed to UTC. Unfortunately I forget which dashboard it was, though I set it back to default (UTC) with:
- "timezone": "browser", + "timezone": "",
I think we should repeat the audit across all grafana.wmcloud.org dashboards and standardize on UTC (i.e. grafana's default). As to avoid the drift in timezones settings in the future, I'm not sure how to achieve that
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P:grafana: Default to UTC timezone | operations/puppet | production | +4 -0 |
As to effectively do the audit, we can adapt search-grafana-dashboards.js from https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grafana#Search/audit_metrics_usage_across_dashboards
Change #1213506 had a related patch set uploaded (by Majavah; author: Majavah):
[operations/puppet@production] P:grafana: Default to UTC timezone
Change #1213506 merged by Majavah:
[operations/puppet@production] P:grafana: Default to UTC timezone
After merging the default settigns patch above I went through all grafana.wmcloud.org dashboards and changed the few non-UTC ones to use the default (which is now UTC). There were some in browser time, and a few ones hardcoded to CET for some reason(?).