Grafana Dashboards API

The dashboards API from Grafana — 20 operation(s) for dashboards.

Operations 25

GET /dashboard/snapshots List snapshots #
POST /dashboards/db Create / Update dashboard #
GET /dashboards/home Get home dashboard #
POST /dashboards/import Import dashboard #
POST /dashboards/interpolate Interpolate dashboard. #
GET /dashboards/public-dashboards List public dashboards #
GET /dashboards/tags Get all dashboards tags of an organization #
GET /dashboards/uid/{dashboardUid}/public-dashboards Get public dashboard #
POST /dashboards/uid/{dashboardUid}/public-dashboards Create public dashboard #
DELETE /dashboards/uid/{dashboardUid}/public-dashboards/{uid} Delete public dashboard #
PATCH /dashboards/uid/{dashboardUid}/public-dashboards/{uid} Update public dashboard #
GET /dashboards/uid/{uid} Get dashboard by uid #
DELETE /dashboards/uid/{uid} Delete dashboard by uid #
GET /dashboards/uid/{uid}/permissions Gets all existing permissions for the given dashboard #
POST /dashboards/uid/{uid}/permissions Updates permissions for a dashboard #
POST /dashboards/uid/{uid}/restore Restore a dashboard to a given dashboard version using UID #
GET /dashboards/uid/{uid}/versions Gets all existing versions for the dashboard using UID #
GET /dashboards/uid/{uid}/versions/{DashboardVersionID} Get a specific dashboard version using UID #
GET /public/dashboards/{accessToken} View public dashboard #
GET /public/dashboards/{accessToken}/annotations Get public annotations #
POST /public/dashboards/{accessToken}/panels/{panelId}/query Query public dashboard #
POST /snapshots When creating a snapshot using the API, you have to provide the full dashboard… #
GET /snapshots-delete/{deleteKey} Delete Snapshot by deleteKey #
GET /snapshots/{key} Get Snapshot by Key #
DELETE /snapshots/{key} Delete Snapshot by Key #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/
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Authentication
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/authentication/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_versions/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_permissions/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_public/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder_dashboard_search/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder_permissions/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/data_source/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/datasource_permissions/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/datasource_lbac_rules/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/alerting_provisioning/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/annotations/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/org/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/user/
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https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/team/
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https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/team_sync/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/preferences/
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https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/access_control/
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https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/serviceaccount/
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https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/sso-settings/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/admin/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/licensing/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/reporting/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/query_and_resource_caching/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/library_element/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/correlations/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/snapshot/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/short_url/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/query_history/

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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. Dashboards 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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