Grafana Recording API

The Recording API from Grafana — 4 operation(s) for recording.

Operations 1

PUT /recording-rules Grafana Update Recording Rule #

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OpenAPI Specification

grafana-recording-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Grafana Recording API
  description: 'Grafana is an open-source analytics and visualization platform that helps you monitor and analyze data from various sources. It lets you create customizable dashboards with charts, graphs, and alerts to visualize metrics and logs in real-time. Commonly used for monitoring infrastructure, applications, and business metrics, Grafana connects to dozens of data sources like Prometheus, Elasticsearch, and cloud platforms, making it easier to understand system performance, troubleshoot issues, and track key indicators all in one place. '
  contact:
    name: Grafana Labs
    url: https://grafana.com
    email: hello@grafana.com
  version: 0.0.1
servers:
- url: http://{defaultHost}
  variables:
    defaultHost:
      default: www.example.com/api
- url: https://{defaultHost}
  variables:
    defaultHost:
      default: www.example.com/api
security:
- basic: []
- api_key: []
tags:
- name: Recording
paths:
  /recording-rules:
    parameters: []
    put:
      tags:
      - Recording
      summary: Grafana Update Recording Rule
      description: Updates an existing recording rule in Grafana's alerting system. Recording rules are used to pre-calculate frequently needed or computationally expensive expressions and save their results as a new set of time series. This operation allows you to modify the configuration of a recording rule including its query expressions, labels, evaluation interval, and other parameters. You need to provide the complete updated recording rule configuration in the request body, and the rule will be identified by its UID or name. This is commonly used when you need to adjust the recording rule's query, change its labels, modify the evaluation frequency, or update any other aspect of how the rule processes and stores metric data. Proper authentication and appropriate permissions are required to perform this operation.
      operationId: updateRecordingRule
      parameters: []
      requestBody:
        description: ''
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordingRuleJSON'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: (empty)
          headers: {}
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordingRuleJSON'
        '401':
          description: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
          headers: {}
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
        '403':
          description: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
          headers: {}
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
        '404':
          description: NotFoundError is returned when the requested resource was not found.
          headers: {}
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
        '500':
          description: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.
          headers: {}
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseBody'
      deprecated: false
      x-api-evangelist-processing:
        SplitPascalCaseOperationSummaries: true
        CaselCaseOperationIds: true
        WriteDescription: true
        ChooseTags: true
components:
  schemas:
    RecordingRuleJSON:
      title: RecordingRuleJSON
      type: object
      properties:
        active:
          type: boolean
        count:
          type: boolean
        description:
          type: string
        dest_data_source_uid:
          type: string
        id:
          type: string
        interval:
          type: integer
          contentEncoding: int64
        name:
          type: string
        prom_name:
          type: string
        queries:
          type: array
          items: {}
          description: ''
        range:
          type: integer
          contentEncoding: int64
        target_ref_id:
          type: string
      description: RecordingRuleJSON is the external representation of a recording rule
    ErrorResponseBody:
      title: ErrorResponseBody
      required:
      - message
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error An optional detailed description of the actual error. Only included if running in developer mode.
        message:
          type: string
          description: a human readable version of the error
        status:
          type: string
          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.'
  securitySchemes:
    api_key:
      type: apiKey
      name: Authorization
      in: header
    basic:
      type: http
      scheme: basic