# Grafana Folders API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-com-folders-api/  
**Provider:** Grafana — https://apis.io/providers/grafana-com/  
**Base URL:** /api  
**Documentation:** https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/

Grafana Folders API is one of 49 APIs that [Grafana](https://apis.io/providers/grafana-com/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Folders. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and authentication docs.

Folders are identified by the identifier (id) and the unique identifier (uid). The identifier (id) of a folder is an auto-incrementing numeric value and is only unique per Grafana install. The unique identifier (uid) of a folder can be used for uniquely identify folders between multiple Grafana installs. It’s automatically generated if not provided when creating a folder. The uid allows having consistent URLs for accessing folders and when syncing folders between multiple Grafana installs. This means that changing the title of a folder will not break any bookmarked links to that folder. The uid can have a maximum length of 40 characters.

## Operations (9)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/folders` | Get all folders |
| POST | `/folders` | Create folder |
| GET | `/folders/{folder_uid}` | Get folder by uid |
| PUT | `/folders/{folder_uid}` | Update folder |
| DELETE | `/folders/{folder_uid}` | Delete folder |
| GET | `/folders/{folder_uid}/counts` | Gets the count of each descendant of a folder by kind. |
| POST | `/folders/{folder_uid}/move` | Move folder |
| GET | `/folders/{folder_uid}/permissions` | Gets all existing permissions for the folder with the given `uid` |
| POST | `/folders/{folder_uid}/permissions` | Updates permissions for a folder. |

## Machine-readable artifacts (32)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/grafana-com/refs/heads/main/openapi/grafana-com-folders-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/
- **Authentication** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/authentication/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_versions/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_permissions/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard_public/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder_dashboard_search/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/folder_permissions/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/data_source/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/datasource_permissions/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/datasource_lbac_rules/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/alerting_provisioning/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/annotations/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/org/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/user/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/team/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/team_sync/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/preferences/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/access_control/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/serviceaccount/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/sso-settings/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/admin/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/licensing/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/reporting/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/query_and_resource_caching/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/library_element/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/correlations/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/snapshot/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/short_url/
- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/query_history/

## Other Grafana APIs (12)

- [Grafana Cloud API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-cloud-api/)
- [Grafana Loki HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/loki-http-api/)
- [Grafana Mimir HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/mimir-http-api/)
- [Grafana Tempo HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/tempo-http-api/)
- [Grafana Pyroscope HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/pyroscope-http-api/)
- [Grafana k6 Cloud API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/k6-cloud-api/)
- [Grafana OnCall API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/oncall-api/)
- [Grafana Synthetic Monitoring API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/synthetic-monitoring-api/)
- [Grafana Access Control API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-com-access-control-api/)
- [Grafana Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-com-admin-api/)
- [Grafana Admin Ldap API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-com-admin-ldap-api/)
- [Grafana Admin Provisioning API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-com-admin-provisioning-api/)

## Tags

Folders

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