grafana/docs/README.md

Building the docs locally

When you contribute to documentation, it is a good practice to build the docs on your local machine to make sure your changes appear as you expect. This README explains the process for doing that.

Requirements

Docker >= 2.1.0.3 Yarn >= 1.22.4

Build the doc site

1. On the command line, first change to the docs folder: cd docs.
2. Run make docs-quick. This launches a preview of the website with the current grafana docs at http://localhost:3002/docs/grafana/next/ which will refresh automatically when changes are made to content in the sources directory.

If you have the grafana/website repo checked out in the same directory as the grafana repo, then you can run make docs-local-static to use local assets (such as images).

---

Content guidelines

Edit content in the sources directory.

Using relref for internal links

Use the Hugo shortcode relref any time you are linking to other internal docs pages.

Syntax is:

{{< relref "example.md" >}}

You might need to add more context for the link (containing folders and so on, folder/example.md) if Hugo says the relref is ambiguous.

Edit the side menu

The side menu is automatically build from the file structure. Use the weight front matter parameter to order pages.

Add images

Images are currently hosted in the grafana/website repo.

---

Deploy changes to grafana.com

When a PR is merged to main with changes in the docs/sources directory, those changes are automatically synced to the grafana/website repo and published to the staging site.

Generally, someone from marketing will publish to production each day: so as long as the sync is successful your docs edits will be published. Alternatively, you can refer to publishing to production if you'd like to do it yourself.