dashconverter.py - why must this exist as a python script?

[chellberg]

Hello DataDog team,

First, I want to thank the creators and maintainers of https://github.com/DataDog/Miscellany/blob/master/dashconverter.py - it was extremely useful and saved me a ton of time yesterday. It did leave me wondering why, given that converting a timeboard to a screenboard programmatically is possible, there isn't a button to do this in the web UI, so I thought I'd ask.

I see that the script was only added in June, so maybe it's a relatively new feature and just hasn't made it up to the top of the roadmap yet, or maybe delivering a web UI that handles the edge cases I didn't encounter using the python script adds a bunch of complexity, just curious.

[andrei-gabriel-p]

hello did you manage to run the script on local machine? because i keep getting some errors when I try to run telling me that it misses some module 'datadog' . So this tells me that it needs some dependencies but I don't understand how to solve this

[chellberg]

@andreiplaton hey, sorry just saw this - I did get it running, just had to pip install the dependencies it complained about not having. That involved figuring out which version of python/pip this script was expecting, which I think was 2 but I'm not sure right now.