What happened?

I would like to be able to use the # character in grafana.ini configuration values.
Grafana currently treats # as a comment and breaks the configuration value.

I think this is down to how the ini package parses the configuration file (https://github.com/go-ini/ini). It is apparently possible to escape the # with Cfg, err := ini.LoadSources(ini.LoadOptions{SpaceBeforeInlineComment: true}, source) as shown in go-ini/ini#277.

Is there a possible workaround?

What did you expect to happen?

Inline comments with # are not parsed as a comment. This would allow me to use # in my configuration.

Did this work before?

I don't think so.

How do we reproduce it?

I had this problem with the following grafana.ini:

[auth.okta]
...
role_attribute_path = contains(groups[*], 'example#admin') && 'Admin'

and this user information:

{
  "sub": "test",
  "name": "Alice",
  "locale": "en_US",
  "email": "test@example.com",
  ...
  "groups": [
    "example#admin",
    "test-group"
  ]
}

With the above role_attribute_path, no role was found for the user. I validated the JMESpath expression with multiple tools and it seems to be correct.

The following role_attribute_path worked as expected:

[auth.okta]
...
role_attribute_path = contains(groups[*], 'test-group') && 'Admin'

Is the bug inside a dashboard panel?

No response

Environment (with versions)?

Grafana: 10.2.3
OS: linux

Grafana platform?

Kubernetes

Datasource(s)?

No response