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Grafana SQLite to Postgres migration breaks on data

Migrating a Grafana SQLite database to Postgres fails on timestamps, booleans and seeded rows with no clear guide.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

7 public reports · first reported 8 August 2026 · last reported 12 August 2026

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What's going wrong

People moving a self-hosted Grafana instance from SQLite to Postgres report that the migration fails on several kinds of stored data.

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