Dashboard v2 : referencing variables in tab grouping fail
Author: pavriet-boxtalCreated Sep 15, 2026Updated Sep 17, 2026
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What happened?
When creating a dashboard, I want 2 variables:
- loadbalancer, lists my aws network load balancers
- targetgroup, lists my aws targetgroup associated with the selected load balancer Creating the variables at the dashboard level works:
However, I anticipate needing a tab per load balancer. So I want the variables to be at the tab level. Doing that, the targetgroup variables fails
Here is the loadbalancer var config:
Here is the targetgroup var config (with and without filtering on loadbalancer):
What did you expect to happen?
I expect behavior to be the same for global and grouped variables
Did this work before?
N/A, I am just starting to work with v2
How do we reproduce it?
Create 2 variables, the 2nd using the 1st. At global or tab level
Is the bug inside a dashboard panel?
no
Environment (with versions)?
Grafana: v13.2.1 (56cd3e9288) OS: Amazon linux Browser: Firefox
Grafana platform?
Docker
Datasource(s)?
Cloudwatch (do not know version)
Source: grafana/grafana