Customizing default settings for new dashboards

Default dashboard settings when creating a new one can be edited or added in dashboards/file/empty.json .

The simplest way to check the value of a setting is to export a dashboard using the export feature and read the exported JSON to find out the "setting":"value" pair you are interested in making the default for new dashboards.

Alternatively you can create a dashboard with all the default settings you want, export it and then replace dashboards/file/empty.json with the exported dashboard, this way you don't have to worry about breaking anything.

If you choose however to edit dashboards/file/empty.json, make sure you have valid JSON and that your settings are right by creating a new dashboard after you've saved your edit (and no there is no need to restart anything for the new settings to apply, isn't that nice? )

Examples

Change default time correction from "browser" to UTC:

add

"timezone":"utc"

Change default style from "dark" to "light"

add

"style":"light"