diff --git a/salt/grafana/templates/role.json b/salt/grafana/templates/role.json
index f76de3cad..f398f679b 100644
--- a/salt/grafana/templates/role.json
+++ b/salt/grafana/templates/role.json
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 {
     "allValue": null,
-    "current": {},
+    "current": {
+        "selected": true,
+        "tags": [],
+        "text": [],
+        "value": []
+    },
     "datasource": "InfluxDB",
     "definition": "show tag values with key=\"role\"",
     "description": null,