Grafana Users API

The users API from Grafana — 6 operation(s) for users.

Operations 7

GET /users Get users #
GET /users/lookup Get user by login or email #
GET /users/search Get users with paging #
GET /users/{user_id} Get user by id #
PUT /users/{user_id} Update user #
GET /users/{user_id}/orgs Get organizations for user #
GET /users/{user_id}/teams Get teams for user #

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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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/team/
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Documentation
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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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/access_control/
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Documentation
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/serviceaccount/
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Documentation
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 Specification

grafana-com-users-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
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. Users 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:
- name: Users
paths:
  /users:
    get:
      description: Returns all users that the authenticated user has permission to view, admin permission required.
      tags:
      - Users
      summary: Get users
      operationId: searchUsers
      parameters:
      - description: Limit the maximum number of users to return per page
        name: perpage
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          default: 1000
      - description: Page index for starting fetching users
        name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          default: 1
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/searchUsersResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorisedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbiddenError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internalServerError'
  /users/lookup:
    get:
      tags:
      - Users
      summary: Get user by login or email
      operationId: getUserByLoginOrEmail
      parameters:
      - description: loginOrEmail of the user
        name: loginOrEmail
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/userResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorisedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbiddenError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFoundError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internalServerError'
  /users/search:
    get:
      tags:
      - Users
      summary: Get users with paging
      operationId: searchUsersWithPaging
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/searchUsersWithPagingResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorisedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbiddenError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFoundError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internalServerError'
  /users/{user_id}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Users
      summary: Get user by id
      operationId: getUserByID
      parameters:
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/userResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorisedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbiddenError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFoundError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internalServerError'
    put:
      description: Update the user identified by id.
      tags:
      - Users
      summary: Update user
      operationId: updateUser
      parameters:
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/okResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorisedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbiddenError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFoundError'
        '409':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/conflictError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internalServerError'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateUserCommand'
        description: To change the email, name, login, theme, provide another one.
        required: true
  /users/{user_id}/orgs:
    get:
      description: Get organizations for user identified by id.
      tags:
      - Users
      summary: Get organizations for user
      operationId: getUserOrgList
      parameters:
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/getUserOrgListResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorisedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbiddenError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFoundError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internalServerError'
  /users/{user_id}/teams:
    get:
      description: Get teams for user identified by id.
      tags:
      - Users
      summary: Get teams for user
      operationId: getUserTeams
      parameters:
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/getUserTeamsResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/unauthorisedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/forbiddenError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/notFoundError'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/internalServerError'
components:
  responses:
    searchUsersResponse:
      description: (empty)
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserSearchHitDTO'
    unauthorisedError:
      description: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
    getUserOrgListResponse:
      description: (empty)
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserOrgDTO'
    internalServerError:
      description: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
    conflictError:
      description: ConflictError
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
    searchUsersWithPagingResponse:
      description: (empty)
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchUserQueryResult'
    okResponse:
      description: An OKResponse is returned if the request was successful.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SuccessResponseBody'
    forbiddenError:
      description: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
    userResponse:
      description: (empty)
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserProfileDTO'
    getUserTeamsResponse:
      description: (empty)
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/TeamDTO'
    notFoundError:
      description: NotFoundError is returned when the requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
  schemas:
    UserOrgDTO:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        orgId:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        role:
          type: string
          enum:
          - None
          - Viewer
          - Editor
          - Admin
    UpdateUserCommand:
      type: object
      properties:
        email:
          type: string
        login:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        theme:
          type: string
    ErrorResponseBody:
      type: object
      required:
      - message
      properties:
        error:
          description: Error An optional detailed description of the actual error. Only included if running in developer mode.
          type: string
        message:
          description: a human readable version of the error
          type: string
        status:
          description: 'Status An optional status to denote the cause of the error.


            For example, a 412 Precondition Failed error may include additional information of why that error happened.'
          type: string
    UserSearchHitDTO:
      type: object
      properties:
        accessControl:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: boolean
        authLabels:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        avatarUrl:
          type: string
        created:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        email:
          type: string
        id:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        isAdmin:
          type: boolean
        isDisabled:
          type: boolean
        isProvisioned:
          type: boolean
        lastSeenAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        lastSeenAtAge:
          type: string
        login:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        role:
          type: string
        uid:
          type: string
    TeamDTO:
      type: object
      required:
      - id
      - uid
      - orgId
      - name
      - isProvisioned
      - memberCount
      properties:
        accessControl:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: boolean
        avatarUrl:
          type: string
        email:
          type: string
        externalUID:
          type: string
        id:
          description: '@deprecated Use UID instead'
          type: integer
          format: int64
        isProvisioned:
          type: boolean
        memberCount:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        name:
          type: string
        orgId:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        permission:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/TeamPermissionType'
        uid:
          type: string
    TeamPermissionType:
      type: integer
      format: int64
    SearchUserQueryResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        page:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        perPage:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        totalCount:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        users:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserSearchHitDTO'
    UserProfileDTO:
      type: object
      properties:
        accessControl:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: boolean
        authLabels:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        avatarUrl:
          type: string
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        email:
          type: string
        id:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        isDisabled:
          type: boolean
        isExternal:
          type: boolean
        isExternallySynced:
          type: boolean
        isGrafanaAdmin:
          type: boolean
        isGrafanaAdminExternallySynced:
          type: boolean
        isProvisioned:
          type: boolean
        login:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        orgId:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        theme:
          type: string
        uid:
          type: string
        updatedAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    SuccessResponseBody:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
  securitySchemes:
    api_key:
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header
    basic:
      type: http
      scheme: basic