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### Dashboards

We also deprecated the [dashboard.json] in favor of our new dashboard provisioner that keeps dashboards on disk
We also deprecated the `[dashboard.json]` in favor of our new dashboard provisioner that keeps dashboards on disk
in sync with dashboards in Grafana's database. The dashboard provisioner has multiple advantages over the old
[dashboard.json] feature. Instead of storing the dashboard in memory we now insert the dashboard into the database,
`[dashboard.json]` feature. Instead of storing the dashboard in memory we now insert the dashboard into the database,
which makes it possible to star them, use one as the home dashboard, set permissions and other features in Grafana that
expects the dashboards to exist in the database. More info in the [dashboard provisioning docs](/administration/provisioning/#dashboards)

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We are also changing the route for getting dashboards to use this `uid` instead of the slug that the current route and API are using.
We will keep supporting the old route for backward compatibility. This will make it possible to change the title on dashboards without breaking links.
Sharing dashboards between instances becomes much easier since the uid is unique (unique enough). This might seem like a small change,
but we are incredibly excited about it since it will make it much easier to manage, collaborate and navigate between dashboards.
but we are incredibly excited about it since it will make it much easier to manage, collaborate and navigate between dashboards.

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