Grafana

Grafana Access Control API

The API can be used to create, update, get and list roles, and create or remove built-in role assignments. To use the API, you would need to enable fine-grained access control. This only available in Grafana Enterprise. The API does not currently work with an API Token. So in order to use these API endpoints you will have to use Basic auth.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 25

GET /access-control/roles Get all roles #

POST /access-control/roles Create a new custom role #

GET /access-control/roles/{roleUID} Get a role #

PUT /access-control/roles/{roleUID} Update a custom role #

DELETE /access-control/roles/{roleUID} Delete a custom role #

GET /access-control/roles/{roleUID}/assignments Get role assignments #

PUT /access-control/roles/{roleUID}/assignments Set role assignments #

GET /access-control/status Get status #

POST /access-control/teams/roles/search List roles assigned to multiple teams #

GET /access-control/teams/{teamId}/roles Get team roles #

PUT /access-control/teams/{teamId}/roles Update team role #

POST /access-control/teams/{teamId}/roles Add team role #

DELETE /access-control/teams/{teamId}/roles/{roleUID} Remove team role #

POST /access-control/users/roles/search List roles assigned to multiple users #

GET /access-control/users/{userId}/roles List roles assigned to a user #

PUT /access-control/users/{userId}/roles Set user role assignments #

POST /access-control/users/{userId}/roles Add a user role assignment #

DELETE /access-control/users/{userId}/roles/{roleUID} Remove a user role assignment #

GET /access-control/{resource}/description Get a description of a resource's access control properties #

GET /access-control/{resource}/{resourceID} Get permissions for a resource #

POST /access-control/{resource}/{resourceID} Set resource permissions #

POST /access-control/{resource}/{resourceID}/builtInRoles/{builtInRole} Set resource permissions for a built-in role #

POST /access-control/{resource}/{resourceID}/teams/{teamID} Set resource permissions for a team #

POST /access-control/{resource}/{resourceID}/users/{userID} Set resource permissions for a user #

POST /admin/provisioning/access-control/reload You need to have a permission with action `provisioning:reload` with scope… #

Documentation

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/authentication/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_versions/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_permissions/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_public/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder_dashboard_search/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder_permissions/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/data_source/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/datasource_permissions/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/datasource_lbac_rules/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/alerting_provisioning/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/annotations/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/org/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/user/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/team/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/team_sync/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/preferences/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/access_control/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/serviceaccount/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/sso-settings/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/admin/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/licensing/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/reporting/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/query_and_resource_caching/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/library_element/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/correlations/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/snapshot/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/short_url/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/query_history/

Specifications

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: 'The Grafana backend exposes an HTTP API, the same API is used by the frontend to do

    everything from saving dashboards, creating users and updating data sources.'
  title: Grafana HTTP API. Access Control API
  contact:
    name: Grafana Labs
    url: https://grafana.com
    email: hello@grafana.com
  version: 0.0.1
servers:
- url: /api
security:
- basic: []
- api_key: []
tags:


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