diff --git a/mixin/dashboards/defaults.libsonnet b/mixin/dashboards/defaults.libsonnet
index 5dff5f2648..57f6191249 100644
--- a/mixin/dashboards/defaults.libsonnet
+++ b/mixin/dashboards/defaults.libsonnet
@@ -14,10 +14,7 @@ local utils = import '../lib/utils.libsonnet';
   // Automatically add a uid to each dashboard based on the base64 encoding
   // of the file name and set the timezone to be 'default'.
   grafanaDashboards:: {
-    local componentName = std.split(filename, '.')[0],
-    local componentParts = std.split(componentName, '_'),
-    local camelCase = utils.toCamelCase(componentParts),
-    local component = if std.length(componentParts) > 1 then camelCase else componentName,
+    local component = utils.sanitizeComponent(std.split(filename, '.')[0]),
 
     [filename]: grafanaDashboards[filename] {
       uid: std.md5(filename),
diff --git a/mixin/lib/utils.libsonnet b/mixin/lib/utils.libsonnet
index c114cb002e..ddf1e3a8c6 100644
--- a/mixin/lib/utils.libsonnet
+++ b/mixin/lib/utils.libsonnet
@@ -25,4 +25,8 @@
   ),
 
   toCamelCase(parts): std.join('', [parts[0], self.firstCharUppercase(parts)]),
+
+  componentParts(name): std.split(name, '_'),
+
+  sanitizeComponent(name): if std.length(self.componentParts(name)) > 1 then self.toCamelCase(self.componentParts(name)) else name,
 }