diff --git a/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md b/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md
index b43ea68bcd8..7936a1708eb 100644
--- a/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md
+++ b/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ datasources:
 ```
 
 #### Custom Settings per Datasource
+Please refer to each datasource documentation for specific provisioning examples.
 
 | Datasource | Misc |
 | ---- | ---- |
diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/cloudwatch.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/cloudwatch.md
index cb4a408336e..f5586bef2d8 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/cloudwatch.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/cloudwatch.md
@@ -207,3 +207,37 @@ Amazon provides 1 million CloudWatch API requests each month at no additional ch
 it costs $0.01 per 1,000 GetMetricStatistics or ListMetrics requests. For each query Grafana will
 issue a GetMetricStatistics request and every time you pick a dimension in the query editor
 Grafana will issue a ListMetrics request.
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+Using a credentials file
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: Cloudwatch
+    type: cloudwatch
+    jsonData:
+      authType: credentials
+      defaultRegion: eu-west-2
+```
+
+Using `accessKey` and `secretKey`
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: Cloudwatch
+    type: cloudwatch
+    jsonData:
+      authType: keys
+      defaultRegion: eu-west-2
+    secureJsonData:
+      accessKey: "<your access key>"
+      secretKey: "<your secret key>"
+```
diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/elasticsearch.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/elasticsearch.md
index 6ce17113a9b..db17aafd271 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/elasticsearch.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/elasticsearch.md
@@ -137,3 +137,23 @@ Query | You can leave the search query blank or specify a lucene query
 Time | The name of the time field, needs to be date field.
 Text | Event description field.
 Tags | Optional field name to use for event tags (can be an array or a CSV string).
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: Elastic
+    type: elasticsearch
+    access: proxy
+    database: "[metrics-]YYYY.MM.DD"
+    url: http://localhost:9200
+    jsonData:
+      interval: Daily
+      timeField: "@timestamp"
+```
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diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/graphite.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/graphite.md
index 7c4187da9ae..97233572878 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/graphite.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/graphite.md
@@ -120,3 +120,21 @@ queries via the Dashboard menu / Annotations view.
 
 Graphite supports two ways to query annotations. A regular metric query, for this you use the `Graphite query` textbox. A Graphite events query, use the `Graphite event tags` textbox,
 specify a tag or wildcard (leave empty should also work)
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: Graphite
+    type: graphite
+    access: proxy
+    url: http://localhost:8080
+    jsonData:
+      graphiteVersion: "1.1"
+```
diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/influxdb.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/influxdb.md
index 6d0918a0d01..b49e0f9dfc6 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/influxdb.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/influxdb.md
@@ -174,3 +174,22 @@ SELECT title, description from events WHERE $timeFilter order asc
 For InfluxDB you need to enter a query like in the above example. You need to have the ```where $timeFilter```
 part. If you only select one column you will not need to enter anything in the column mapping fields. The
 Tags field can be a comma separated string.
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: InfluxDB
+    type: influxdb
+    access: proxy
+    database: site
+    user: grafana
+    password: grafana
+    url: http://localhost:8086
+```
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diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/mysql.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/mysql.md
index 7fae7441b6d..8eaab86a906 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/mysql.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/mysql.md
@@ -225,3 +225,21 @@ tags | Optional field name to use for event tags as a comma separated string.
 ## Alerting
 
 Time series queries should work in alerting conditions. Table formatted queries is not yet supported in alert rule conditions.
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: MySQL
+    type: mysql
+    url: localhost:3306
+    database: grafana
+    user: grafana
+    password: password
+```
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diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/opentsdb.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/opentsdb.md
index 03795473ff7..6333861dca7 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/opentsdb.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/opentsdb.md
@@ -88,3 +88,22 @@ Query | Description
 *tag_values(cpu, hostanme, env=$env, region=$region)* | Return tag values for cpu metric, selected env tag value, selected region tag value and tag key hostname
 
 For details on OpenTSDB metric queries checkout the official [OpenTSDB documentation](http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html)
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: OpenTsdb
+    type: opentsdb
+    access: proxy
+    url: http://localhost:4242
+    jsonData:
+      tsdbResolution: 1
+      tsdbVersion: 1
+```
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diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/postgres.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/postgres.md
index 7d52df2fd3e..00ad2db4c16 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/postgres.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/postgres.md
@@ -217,3 +217,24 @@ tags | Optional field name to use for event tags as a comma separated string.
 
 Time series queries should work in alerting conditions. Table formatted queries is not yet supported in alert rule
 conditions.
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: Postgres
+    type: postgres
+    url: localhost:5432
+    database: grafana
+    user: grafana
+    password: password
+    jsonData:
+      sslmode: "disable" # disable/require/verify-ca/verify-full
+
+```
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diff --git a/docs/sources/features/datasources/prometheus.md b/docs/sources/features/datasources/prometheus.md
index c9bb16441ca..17a24ed0684 100644
--- a/docs/sources/features/datasources/prometheus.md
+++ b/docs/sources/features/datasources/prometheus.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Name | Description
 *Basic Auth* | Enable basic authentication to the Prometheus data source.
 *User* | Name of your Prometheus user
 *Password* | Database user's password
-*Scrape interval* | This will be used as a lower limit for the Prometheus step query parameter. Default value is 15s. 
+*Scrape interval* | This will be used as a lower limit for the Prometheus step query parameter. Default value is 15s.
 
 ## Query editor
 
@@ -100,3 +100,19 @@ The step option is useful to limit the number of events returned from your query
 ## Getting Grafana metrics into Prometheus
 
 Since 4.6.0 Grafana exposes metrics for Prometheus on the `/metrics` endpoint. We also bundle a dashboard within Grafana so you can get started viewing your metrics faster. You can import the bundled dashboard by going to the data source edit page and click the dashboard tab. There you can find a dashboard for Grafana and one for Prometheus. Import and start viewing all the metrics!
+
+## Configure datasource with provisioning
+
+It's now possible to configure datasources using config files with Grafanas provisioning system. You can read more about how it works and all the settings you can set for datasources on the [provisioning docs page](/administration/provisioning/#datasources)
+
+Here are some provisioning examples for this datasource.
+
+```yaml
+apiVersion: 1
+
+datasources:
+  - name: Prometheus
+    type: prometheus
+    access: proxy
+    url: http://localhost:9090
+```
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