Dashboard import: migrate from other monitoring providers #476
Description
Problem
Teams migrating from other observability/monitoring platforms to Sentry have no automated path for bringing their existing dashboards over. This creates manual re-creation work and acts as a friction point during migration.
Proposed Solution
Add a CLI command (e.g. sentry-cli dashboards import) that accepts an exported dashboard definition from a third-party provider and converts it into a Sentry dashboard via the Sentry API.
Potential approach:
- Accept provider-specific export formats as input (file or stdin)
- Use LLM-assisted or heuristic mapping to translate widget types, queries, and layout to Sentry's dashboard schema
- Output a Sentry dashboard (optionally auto-importing via API token)
Scope
- Support common observability platform export formats
- Graceful handling of unsupported widget types (warn + skip)
- Dry-run / preview mode before committing to the API
Why CLI
The CLI has direct access to the Sentry API and is the natural home for automation and migration tooling that doesn't belong in the product UI.
Action taken on behalf of Miguel Betegón.