using raw dashboards in folders

[khumps]

The kube-prometheus documentation mentions using the rawDashboards field instead of the dashboards field when passing in pre-rendered JSON dashboards for "performance" reasons. However, I want to put my dashboards in folders which appears to only be possible with the folderDashboards field. Is there some undocumented folderRawDashboards field or does folderDashboards support using importstr?

[baconalot]

I would argue a new structure is needed to administer dashboard configuration separate from dashboard creation. Things like folder layout and starring are managed on a different level in grafana and mixing those with dashboard creation is bound to create headaches.
ex.

rawDashboards+:: {
            'overview.json': (importstr 'extra_dashboards/overview.json'),
            'jobs.json': (importstr 'extra_dashboards/jobs.json'),
},
dashboardConfig+:: {
            'overview': {folder:'myfolder', starred:true},
            'jobs': {folder:'anotherfolder'}
},

The referencing of the dashboards is of course the tricky part here.

[baconalot]

Or alternatively: switch to a dashboard structure that eats an object instead of only the definition.
ex.

dashboardsExtended+:: {
     'overview.json': {type:'raw', data:(importstr 'extra_dashboards/overview.json'), starred:true, folder:'myfolder'},
},

That solves the referencing problem