Dashboard API

Contents

• Dashboard HTTP API

  • Dashboard Snapshot PNG

  • Create dashboard

  • Get dashboard

  • Delete dashboard

  • Search dashboards

  • Create a New Folder

Dashboard Snapshot PNG

GET /api/v3/grafana/render/?target=

Returns PNG image of a dashboard panel. To display any data on the graph you must include a ‘target’, you can append multiple targets to the request as follows: ?target=foo.bar.A&target=foo.bar.B

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
target*	String	graphite query
from	String	Format: -<num>m|h|d|w|M|Y default: -6h
to	String	Format: now-<num>m|h|d|w|M|Y default: now
width	String	number measured in pixels default: 1000
height	String	number measured in pixels default: 500
style	String	Format: “light” | “dark ” default: dark

Curl Example:

curl -i -X GET \
"https://<api-key>@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v3/grafana/render/?target=foo.bar"

Response:

200

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: image/png

<image data>

400

Bad Request Invalid form data

401

Unauthorized

Time Queries:

• m = Minutes

• h = Hours

• d = Days

• w = Weeks

• M = Months

• Y = Years

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You can interact with your dashboard instance directly through Grafana's HTTP API

To use the Grafana API, you will need to create a new Grafana API key within the Grafana UI (Settings => Service Accounts => Add Service Account with Admin role => Generate Service Account Token). This token will be referred to as <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN> in the examples below.

Create Service Account & Token

In all examples <UID> refers to the URL subdomain of your hosted instance, uid refers to the unique identifier of the related resource. Below are examples of requests made using the Grafana API.

Create & Update dashboard

POST /api/dashboards/db

Creates a new dashboard or updates an existing dashboard

Example:

curl -X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>" \
"https://<UID>.hostedgraphite.com/api/dashboards/db" \
-d @dashboard.json

200

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "slug": "production-overview",
    "status": "success",
    "version": 1
}

400

Bad Request Invalid JSON

412

Conflict Dashboard already exists

Example dashboard.json file:

{
    "dashboard": {
        "title": "Minimal Dashboard",
        "panels": []
    },
    "folderId": 0,
    "overwrite": false
}

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Get dashboard

GET /api/dashboards/uid/:uid

Returns a dashboard given the dashboard's uid

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>

Curl examples:

curl -X GET \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>" \
"https://<UID>.hostedgraphite.com/api/dashboards/uid/<DASHBOARD-UID>"

Response:

200

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{ 
    "meta": { 
        "isStarred": false,
        "slug": "production-overview" 
    }, 
    "model": { 
        "id": null, 
        "title": "Production Overview",
        "tags": [ "templated" ],
        "timezone": "browser",
        "panels": [ { } ] 
        "schemaVersion": 6,
        "version": 0 
    }, 
}

400

Bad Request No dashboard specified

404

Not Found Dashboard not found

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Delete dashboard

DELETE /api/dashboards/uid/:uid

Deletes a dashboard given the dashboard slug.

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>

Example:

curl -X DELETE \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>" \
"https://<UID>.hostedgraphite.com/api/dashboards/uid/<DASHBOARD-UID>"

Response:

200

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "title": "Example Dash",
    "message": "Dashboard Example Dash deleted",
    "id": 3
}

400

Bad Request No dashboard specified

404

Dashboard not found

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Search dashboards

GET /api/search

Returns a list of dashboards given a search query.

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>

Example:

curl -X GET \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>" \
"https://<UID>.hostedgraphite.com/api/search"

Response:

200:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "title": "Production Overview",
        "uri": "db/production-overview",
        "type": "dash-db",
        "tags": [
            "templated",
            "production"
        ],
        "isStarred": true
    },
    {
        "id": 4,
        "title": "Production Webservers",
        "uri": "db/production-webservers",
        "type": "dash-db",
        "tags": [
            "production"
        ],
        "isStarred": true
    }
    ...
]

400

Bad Request Invalid form data

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Create a New Folder

POST /api/folders

Creates a new folder for dashboard organization.

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>

JSON Schema

Name	Type	Description
title	string	name of new folder

Example:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer  <SERVICE-ACCOUNT-TOKEN>" \
"https://<UID>.hostedgraphite.com/api/folders" -d '{"title": "Test Folder"}'

Response:

200

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "id": 70,
    "uid": "bfc49500-7c2d-4d73-ba43-d8ab677d4836",
    "title": "Test Folder",
    "url": "/dashboards/f/bfc49500-7c2d-4d73-ba43-d8ab677d4836/test-folder",
    "hasAcl": false,
    "canSave": true,
    "canEdit": true,
    "canAdmin": true,
    "canDelete": true,
    "createdBy": "Anonymous",
    "created": "2024-10-15T13:10:22.922696496Z",
    "updatedBy": "Anonymous",
    "updated": "2024-10-15T13:10:22.922696646Z",
    "version": 1
}

400

Errors (invalid json, missing or invalid fields, etc

409

Folder already exists