Grafana

Grafana Data Sources API

If you are running Grafana Enterprise and have Fine-grained access control enabled, for some endpoints you would need to have relevant permissions. Refer to specific resources to understand what permissions are required.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 20

GET /datasources Get all data sources #

POST /datasources Create a data source #

GET /datasources/correlations Gets all correlations #

GET /datasources/id/{name} Get data source Id by Name. This function will be removed in the future #

GET /datasources/name/{name} Get a single data source by Name. This function will be removed in the future #

DELETE /datasources/name/{name} Delete an existing data source by name. #

GET /datasources/proxy/uid/{uid}/{datasource_proxy_route} Data source proxy GET calls #

POST /datasources/proxy/uid/{uid}/{datasource_proxy_route} Data source proxy POST calls #

DELETE /datasources/proxy/uid/{uid}/{datasource_proxy_route} Data source proxy DELETE calls #

GET /datasources/uid/{sourceUID}/correlations Gets all correlations originating from the given data source #

POST /datasources/uid/{sourceUID}/correlations Add correlation #

GET /datasources/uid/{sourceUID}/correlations/{correlationUID} Gets a correlation #

PATCH /datasources/uid/{sourceUID}/correlations/{correlationUID} Updates a correlation #

GET /datasources/uid/{uid} Get a single data source by UID #

PUT /datasources/uid/{uid} Update an existing data source #

DELETE /datasources/uid/{uid} Delete an existing data source by UID #

DELETE /datasources/uid/{uid}/correlations/{correlationUID} Delete a correlation #

GET /datasources/uid/{uid}/health Sends a health check request to the plugin datasource identified by the UID #

GET /datasources/uid/{uid}/resources/{datasource_proxy_route} Fetch data source resources #

POST /ds/query DataSource query metrics with expressions #

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. Datasources 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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