diff --git a/grafana/dashboards/ai-usage.json b/grafana/dashboards/ai-usage.json
index 9059255d0..2f97495a7 100644
--- a/grafana/dashboards/ai-usage.json
+++ b/grafana/dashboards/ai-usage.json
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
         "label": "Provider",
         "type": "query",
         "datasource": { "type": "frser-sqlite-datasource", "uid": "gittensory-db" },
-        "query": { "queryType": "table", "rawQueryText": "SELECT DISTINCT provider FROM ai_usage_events WHERE provider IS NOT NULL ORDER BY provider" },
+        "query": { "queryType": "table", "queryText": "SELECT DISTINCT provider FROM ai_usage_events WHERE provider IS NOT NULL ORDER BY provider", "rawQueryText": "SELECT DISTINCT provider FROM ai_usage_events WHERE provider IS NOT NULL ORDER BY provider" },
         "includeAll": true,
         "allValue": "$__all",
         "multi": false,
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
         "label": "Feature",
         "type": "query",
         "datasource": { "type": "frser-sqlite-datasource", "uid": "gittensory-db" },
-        "query": { "queryType": "table", "rawQueryText": "SELECT DISTINCT feature FROM ai_usage_events ORDER BY feature" },
+        "query": { "queryType": "table", "queryText": "SELECT DISTINCT feature FROM ai_usage_events ORDER BY feature", "rawQueryText": "SELECT DISTINCT feature FROM ai_usage_events ORDER BY feature" },
         "includeAll": true,
         "allValue": "$__all",
         "multi": false,
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
         "datasource": { "type": "frser-sqlite-datasource", "uid": "gittensory-db" },
         "query": {
           "queryType": "table",
+          "queryText": "SELECT DISTINCT model FROM ai_usage_events WHERE ('$provider' = '$__all' OR provider = '$provider') ORDER BY model",
           "rawQueryText": "SELECT DISTINCT model FROM ai_usage_events WHERE ('$provider' = '$__all' OR provider = '$provider') ORDER BY model"
         },
         "includeAll": true,
diff --git a/grafana/dashboards/github-prs.json b/grafana/dashboards/github-prs.json
index 9e4c40ee0..5833ecf0c 100644
--- a/grafana/dashboards/github-prs.json
+++ b/grafana/dashboards/github-prs.json
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
         "description": "Dynamic, never hardcoded: built from whichever repos are actually tracked in this self-hoster's own reporting DB. 'All repos' assumes a single-owner setup (the same assumption the dashboard's own GitHub-search-syntax scope always required, since GitHub search can't OR multiple repo: qualifiers in one query) — it widens to org:<owner> of the first tracked repo. A self-hoster tracking repos across multiple owners should pick a specific repo instead of 'All repos'.",
         "query": {
           "queryType": "table",
+          "queryText": "SELECT * FROM (SELECT 0 AS ord, 'All repos' AS \"__text\", (SELECT 'org:' || substr(repo, 1, instr(repo, '/') - 1) FROM review_targets LIMIT 1) AS \"__value\" UNION ALL SELECT 1 AS ord, repo AS \"__text\", 'repo:' || repo AS \"__value\" FROM (SELECT DISTINCT repo FROM review_targets ORDER BY repo)) ORDER BY ord, \"__text\"",
           "rawQueryText": "SELECT * FROM (SELECT 0 AS ord, 'All repos' AS \"__text\", (SELECT 'org:' || substr(repo, 1, instr(repo, '/') - 1) FROM review_targets LIMIT 1) AS \"__value\" UNION ALL SELECT 1 AS ord, repo AS \"__text\", 'repo:' || repo AS \"__value\" FROM (SELECT DISTINCT repo FROM review_targets ORDER BY repo)) ORDER BY ord, \"__text\""
         },
         "current": { "text": "All repos", "value": "org:JSONbored" },
diff --git a/grafana/dashboards/maintainer-reviews.json b/grafana/dashboards/maintainer-reviews.json
index e698d83e7..a8892e0b0 100644
--- a/grafana/dashboards/maintainer-reviews.json
+++ b/grafana/dashboards/maintainer-reviews.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
         "label": "Repo",
         "type": "query",
         "datasource": { "type": "frser-sqlite-datasource", "uid": "gittensory-db" },
-        "query": { "queryType": "table", "rawQueryText": "SELECT DISTINCT repo FROM review_targets ORDER BY repo" },
+        "query": { "queryType": "table", "queryText": "SELECT DISTINCT repo FROM review_targets ORDER BY repo", "rawQueryText": "SELECT DISTINCT repo FROM review_targets ORDER BY repo" },
         "includeAll": true,
         "allValue": "$__all",
         "multi": false,
diff --git a/test/unit/selfhost-grafana-variable-query-text.test.ts b/test/unit/selfhost-grafana-variable-query-text.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fb03e0851
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/selfhost-grafana-variable-query-text.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { readFileSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+// Regression guard (2026-07 fix): every "query"-type template variable across every dashboard silently
+// returned ZERO options in the live Grafana instance -- confirmed empirically against a running
+// frser-sqlite-datasource via POST /api/ds/query -- because the variable's `query` object only carried
+// `rawQueryText` (a display/round-trip field), never the `queryText` field the plugin actually needs to
+// execute the query. Panel targets were never affected: they already set BOTH fields at the top level (see
+// the `rawQueryText === queryText` check on panel targets elsewhere in this suite), which is exactly why
+// every table/timeseries panel rendered real data while every $variable dropdown showed a red error icon and
+// resolved to nothing -- cascading into "No data"/zeroed panels wherever a panel's WHERE clause referenced
+// one of those variables. This test scans every dashboard file, not just the ones fixed today, so a future
+// dashboard can never reintroduce this by copying the variable shape without the fix.
+const dashboardsDir = join(process.cwd(), "grafana/dashboards");
+
+type TemplateVar = {
+  name: string;
+  type: string;
+  datasource?: { type?: string };
+  query?: { queryText?: string; rawQueryText?: string } | string;
+};
+
+function readDashboardFiles(): Array<{ file: string; vars: TemplateVar[] }> {
+  return readdirSync(dashboardsDir)
+    .filter((f) => f.endsWith(".json"))
+    .map((file) => {
+      const dashboard = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(dashboardsDir, file), "utf8")) as {
+        templating?: { list?: TemplateVar[] };
+      };
+      return { file, vars: dashboard.templating?.list ?? [] };
+    });
+}
+
+describe("Grafana dashboards: every query-type template variable actually executes (2026-07 fix)", () => {
+  it("every SQL-datasource query variable's `query` object carries queryText, matching rawQueryText", () => {
+    const dashboards = readDashboardFiles();
+    expect(dashboards.length).toBeGreaterThan(3); // sanity: the scan found real dashboard files
+
+    const violations: string[] = [];
+    for (const { file, vars } of dashboards) {
+      for (const v of vars) {
+        if (v.type !== "query") continue;
+        if (typeof v.query !== "object" || v.query === null) continue;
+        // Only the frser-sqlite-datasource plugin exhibits this specific missing-queryText bug (confirmed
+        // empirically); a Prometheus/other query variable's `query` field is a plain string, not this shape,
+        // and is unaffected -- skip anything that isn't this plugin.
+        if (v.datasource?.type !== "frser-sqlite-datasource") continue;
+        const { queryText, rawQueryText } = v.query;
+        if (!queryText) {
+          violations.push(`${file}: $${v.name} is missing "queryText" in its query object (rawQueryText alone silently returns zero rows)`);
+        } else if (queryText !== rawQueryText) {
+          violations.push(`${file}: $${v.name}'s queryText and rawQueryText have diverged ("${queryText}" vs "${rawQueryText}")`);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    expect(violations).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});