How do I import dashboards by id from grafana.com? Without json files and configMap

Question

I have a helm chart that deploys a kube-prometheus stack (prometheus, grafana, node-exporter), there are some json files (dashboards) in the grafana configuration, they are transferred to the grafana pod via configMap (common practice). I have a task to optimize this configuration to add grafana dashboards via their id from grafana.com and not to use json files (as they are very big). I know how to create a folder in grafana and specify the prometheus resource, but I don't understand how to export dashboards by id.

To create a folder I have a file (yaml) which is added via configmap to the directory /etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards

- name: 'default'
  org_id: 1
  folder: 'my-dashboards'
  type: 'file'
  options:
    folder: '/var/lib/grafana/dashboards'

How to do it and in which file I need to insert this configuration to make it work. I will be grateful for help.

I tried to create configurations I found on github (dashboardProviders), but it only creates a folder (the code I specified), without dashboards

UPD: what i have now

apiVersion: 1
providers:
  # <string> an unique provider name. Required
  - name: 'prometheus'
    # <int> Org id. Default to 1
    orgId: 1
    # <string> name of the dashboard folder.
    folder: 'my-dashboards'
    # <string> folder UID. will be automatically generated if not specified
    folderUid: ''
    # <string> provider type. Default to 'file'
    type: file
    # <bool> disable dashboard deletion
    disableDeletion: false
    # <int> how often Grafana will scan for changed dashboards
    updateIntervalSeconds: 10
    # <bool> allow updating provisioned dashboards from the UI
    allowUiUpdates: false
    options:
      # <string, required> path to dashboard files on disk. Required when using the 'file' type
      path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards
      # <bool> use folder names from filesystem to create folders in Grafana
      foldersFromFilesStructure: true

dashboards:
  default:
    MinIO:
      gnetId: 13502
      revision: 2
      datasource: prometheus

but it still doesn't work...why?

Answer 1

It is (or can be) a part of the grafana helm chart, from what I remember when used it in the past. That configuration needs to go into the values.yaml when using that helm chart.

Specifically here to enable/configure dashboardProviders and here to provision the dashboard using dashboard id from the grafana website.

Can also refer to some documentation here.

Hope it helps.

Update:

Using the below config I was able to import the MinIO Dashboard (the one OP tried to import):

dashboardProviders:
  dashboardproviders.yaml:
   apiVersion: 1
   providers:
   - name: 'default'
     orgId: 1
     folder: 'default'
     type: file
     disableDeletion: true
     editable: true
     options:
       path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/standard

dashboards:
  default:
    MinIO:
      gnetId: 13502
      revision: 2
      datasource: prometheus

Ofcourse I don't have the prometheus data source, hence the warning sign(s).