I am trying to do the following: Create a Dashboard using ARM template and have metrics (eg. Network In, Network Out) for a Virtual machine (eg. VM1). The dashboard created is "Testdashboard" Now using the same template, I want to supply parameters for an another VM (eg. VM2) to update the "Testdashboard" The manual equivalent operation is to create a dashboard and pin the charts from VM1, VM2 to the dashboard ("Testdashbaord" in this case). Is this possible with ARM template?

Programatically adding resources to ARM template

Gururaj Nagaraja Rao 6

I am trying to do the following:

Create a Dashboard using ARM template and have metrics (eg. Network In, Network Out) for a Virtual machine (eg. VM1). The dashboard created is "Testdashboard"
Now using the same template, I want to supply parameters for an another VM (eg. VM2) to update the "Testdashboard"

The manual equivalent operation is to create a dashboard and pin the charts from VM1, VM2 to the dashboard ("Testdashbaord" in this case). Is this possible with ARM template?

bharathn-msft 5,096 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-01-05T05:58:02.437+00:00
@Gururaj Nagaraja Rao Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform.

Checking to see if you already had a chance to review below documentation on how to programmatically create Azure Dashboards.

Create a dashboard in the Azure Portal using a ARM template

Fetch the JSON representation of the dashboard

In your particular scenario please see if incremental mode of ARM template is applicable. Please review the details shared and circle back if you have any further queries. Thank you

I will also see if we can repro the same scenario you are looking for and share any learnings we might have. Thanks
Sumeet Bahadkar 1 Reputation point

2021-01-07T14:17:22.273+00:00

Hi @bharathn-msft . I am @Gururaj Nagaraja Rao 's colleague and taking over for him.

What we are trying to do here is add new tiles to an existing dashboard programatically. I checked the incremental mode documentation you sent and though it is conceptually what we are looking for, it doesn't solve our problem. The documentation mentions that the incremental mode applies only for resources and not properties. Unfortunately, in this case the dashboard is the resource and tiles are its properties. Still, I did an experiment where I created a dashboard and added one tile to it. Then I created an ARM template for the same dashboard but with a different tile at a different position, and deployed it with incremental mode. What we want here to happen is that the existing tile is retained and the new tile is added to the dashboard. Instead, the existing tile was removed and then the new tile was added.

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