From efd6b250d9d21dd6c90f5bf36bd82dad42dad769 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leon Sorokin <leeoniya@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 05:08:31 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Chore: Remove Chance.js dependency from runtime code
 (#113457)

---
 .../provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.test.ts         | 4 ++--
 .../app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.ts | 6 ++----
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.test.ts b/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.test.ts
index ab7543453dd..805874f631f 100644
--- a/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.test.ts
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ describe('generateTimestamp', () => {
     expect(typeof timestamp).toBe('string');
 
     // Check that the timestamp follows the format YYYY-MM-DD-xxxxx
-    // where xxxxx is a random string of 5 alphabetic characters
-    expect(timestamp).toMatch(/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-[a-zA-Z]{5}$/);
+    // where xxxxx is a random string of 5 alpha-num characters
+    expect(timestamp).toMatch(/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}-[a-z\d]{5}$/i);
   });
 
   it('should generate unique timestamps', () => {
diff --git a/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.ts b/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.ts
index a1020951d41..8906cf3e3a7 100644
--- a/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/provisioning/components/utils/timestamp.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-import { Chance } from 'chance';
-
 import { dateTime } from '@grafana/data';
 
 /**
  * Generates a timestamp string in the format YYYY-MM-DD-xxxxx where xxxxx is a random string
  */
 export function generateTimestamp(): string {
-  const random = new Chance();
-  return `${dateTime().format('YYYY-MM-DD')}-${random.string({ length: 5, alpha: true })}`;
+  const randStr = Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 7);
+  return `${dateTime().format('YYYY-MM-DD')}-${randStr}`;
 }