# Grafana Snapshot, Short URL, and Query History API

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

Grafana Snapshot, Short URL, and Query History API is one of 20 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 Observability, Grafana, Snapshots, and ShortURLs. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

Capture and share dashboard snapshots (rendered point-in-time copies including data), generate short URLs for long Explore queries and dashboard links, and read or write a user's Explore query history.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **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/
- **OpenAPI** — https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/public/api-merged.json

## Other Grafana APIs (12)

- [Grafana HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-http-api/)
- [Grafana Dashboard API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-dashboard-api/)
- [Grafana Folder and Search API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-folder-api/)
- [Grafana Data Source API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-data-source-api/)
- [Grafana Alerting Provisioning API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-alerting-api/)
- [Grafana Annotations API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-annotations-api/)
- [Grafana Organization and Users API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-org-api/)
- [Grafana Access Control (RBAC) API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-rbac-api/)
- [Grafana Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-admin-api/)
- [Grafana Library Elements API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-library-elements-api/)
- [Grafana Correlations API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-correlations-api/)
- [Grafana Cloud API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-cloud-api/)

## Tags

Observability, Grafana, Snapshots, ShortURLs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-snapshot-shorturl-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/grafana-com/.