diff --git a/kubernetes-addons/Observability/README.md b/kubernetes-addons/Observability/README.md
index a5cc48cb7..7732b59ca 100644
--- a/kubernetes-addons/Observability/README.md
+++ b/kubernetes-addons/Observability/README.md
@@ -121,13 +121,19 @@ Here are few Grafana dashboards for monitoring different aspects of OPEA applica
 You can either:
 
 - Import them manually to Grafana,
-- Use [`update-dashboards.sh`](./update-dashboards.sh) script to add them to Kubernetes as Grafana dashboard configMaps
-  - (Script assumes Prometheus / Grafana to be installed according to above instructions)
+- Use [`update-dashboards.sh`](./update-dashboards.sh) script to add them to Kubernetes as (more persistent) Grafana dashboard `configMap`s
+  - Script uses `$USER-<file name>` as dashboard `configMap` names, overwrites any pre-existing `configMap` with the same name, and _restarts Grafana_ so that it notices `configMap` updates
 - Or create your own dashboards based on them
 
-Note: when dashboard is imported to Grafana, you can directly save changes to it, but those dashboards go away if Grafana is removed / re-installed.
+When dashboard is imported to Grafana, you can directly save changes to it, but such dashboards go away if Grafana is removed / re-installed. When dashboard is in `configMap`, Grafana saves its changes to a (selected) file, but you need to re-apply those files to Kubernetes with the script, for your changes to be there when that Grafana dashboard page is reloaded in browser.
 
-Whereas with dashboard configMaps, Grafana saves changes to a selected file, but you need to remember to re-apply them to Kubernetes / Grafana, for your changes to be there when that dashboard is reloaded.
+Gotchas for dashboard `configMap` script usage:
+
+- If you change dashboard file name, you need to change also its 'uid' field (at end of the file), otherwise Grafana will see multiple `configMap`s for the same dashboard ID
+  - If there's no `uid` specified for the dashboard, Grafana will generate one on `configMap` load. Meaning that dashboard ID, and Grafana URL to it, will change on every reload
+- Script assumes Prometheus / Grafana to be installed according to above instructions. If not, list of `labels` within script need to be updated to match Prometheus / Grafana installation
+
+NOTE: Services provide metrics only after they have processed at least one query, before that dashboards can be empty!
 
 ![TGI dashboard](./assets/tgi.png)
 ![Scaling dashboard](./assets/opea-scaling.png)
diff --git a/kubernetes-addons/Observability/update-dashboards.sh b/kubernetes-addons/Observability/update-dashboards.sh
index 96ba89b42..848b59b17 100755
--- a/kubernetes-addons/Observability/update-dashboards.sh
+++ b/kubernetes-addons/Observability/update-dashboards.sh
@@ -6,12 +6,18 @@
 set -e
 
 # Grafana namespace
-ns=monitoring
+ns="monitoring"
+
+# Grafana app selector
+selector="app.kubernetes.io/name=grafana"
+
+# command for fetching Grafana pod name
+grafana="kubectl -n $ns get pod --selector $selector --field-selector=status.phase=Running -o name"
 
 # Labels needed in configMap to get (Helm installed) Grafana to load it as dashboard
 labels="grafana_dashboard=1 release=prometheus-stack app=kube-prometheus-stack-grafana"
 
-usage ()
+error_exit ()
 {
 	name=${0##*/}
 	echo
@@ -25,15 +31,9 @@ usage ()
 }
 
 if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
-	usage "no files specified"
+	error_exit "no files specified"
 fi
 
-for file in "$@"; do
-	if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
-		usage "JSON file '$file' does not exist"
-	fi
-done
-
 if [ -z "$(which jq)" ]; then
 	echo "ERROR: 'jq' required for dashboard checks, please install it first!"
 	exit 1
@@ -41,7 +41,19 @@ fi
 
 echo "Creating/updating following Grafana dashboards to '$ns' namespace:"
 for file in "$@"; do
-	echo "- $file ($(jq .uid "$file" | tail -1)): $(jq .title "$file" | tail -1)"
+	if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
+		error_exit "JSON file '$file' does not exist"
+	fi
+	# Dashboard 'uid' is optional, but it should have a title...
+	uid=$(jq .uid "$file" | tail -1)
+	if [ -z "$uid" ]; then
+		error_exit "'$file' dashboard has invalid JSON"
+	fi
+	title=$(jq .title "$file" | tail -1)
+	if [ "$title" = "null" ]; then
+		error_exit "'$file' dashboard has no 'title' field"
+	fi
+	echo "- $file (uid: $uid): $title"
 done
 
 # use tmp file so user can check what's wrong when there are errors
@@ -60,11 +72,25 @@ cleanup ()
 }
 trap cleanup EXIT
 
+pod=$($grafana)
+if [ -z "$pod" ]; then
+	echo "ERROR: Grafana missing from '$ns' namespace!"
+	exit
+fi
+
 echo
 for file in "$@"; do
 	base=${file##*/}
 	name=${base%.json}
-	name="$USER-$name"
+	# if no user prefix, add one
+	if [ "${name#"$USER"}" = "$name" ]; then
+		name="$USER-$name"
+	fi
+	# convert to k8s object name ("[a-z0-9][-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9]"):
+	# - upper-case -> lowercase, '_' -> '-'
+	# - drop anything outside [-a-z]
+	# - drop '-' prefix & suffix and successive '-' chars
+	name=$(echo "$name" | tr A-Z_ a-z- | tr -d -c a-z- | sed -e 's/^-*//' -e 's/-*$//' -e 's/--*/-/g')
 	echo "*** $ns/$name: $(jq .title "$file" | tail -1) ***"
 	set -x
 	# shellcheck disable=SC2086
@@ -77,4 +103,22 @@ done
 
 rm $tmp
 
+echo
+echo "Restarting Grafana so that it notices updated dashboards..."
+pod=$($grafana)
+echo "kubectl -n $ns delete $pod"
+kubectl -n "$ns" delete "$pod"
+
+echo
+echo "Waiting until new Grafana instance is running..."
+while true; do
+	sleep 2
+	pod=$($grafana)
+	if [ -n "$pod" ]; then
+		break
+	fi
+done
+echo "kubectl -n $ns wait $pod --for=condition=Ready"
+kubectl -n "$ns" wait "$pod" --for=condition=Ready
+
 echo "DONE!"