Dashboards need a templating mechanism

[Michael Leinartas]

Some form of Graph templating would make dashboards easier to create in some cases.

There are two types of templates that can be explored:
Graph templates (add a new graph based on a template)
Dashboard templates (create a new dashboard based on a template)

The latter is implemented here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~aleh/+junk/graphite-improvements/revision/647 and being used by AppNexus. The issue with that implementation is that it makes strong assumptions about the naming scheme of metrics. It should give someone ideas for how such a feature might look

[Michael Leinartas (mleinartas)]

Migrated to Github: https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/issues/178