Dashboard HTTP API

Hosted Graphite supports an HTTP API which allows you to fetch, create, and update your primary dashboards.

Create dashboard

POST /api/v2/grafana/dashboards/ - Creates a new dashboard

Curl example:

curl -X POST https://YOUR-API-KEY@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/dashboards/ \
     -d @dashboard.json

Example dashboard:

{
"title": "Production Overview",
"tags": [ "templated" ],
"timezone": "browser",
"panels": [
    {
    }
],
"schemaVersion": 6,
"version": 0
}

This example creates a dashboard with the name “Production Overview” in accordance with the title field above.

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "slug": "production-overview",
  "status": "success",
  "version": 1
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Created
  • 400 - Invalid JSON
  • 409 - Dashboard already exists

Update dashboard

PUT /api/v2/grafana/dashboards/ - Updates existing dashboard

Curl example:

curl -X PUT https://YOUR-API-KEY@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/dashboards/ \
     -d @dashboard.json

Example dashboard:

{
"id": 1
"title": "Production Overview",
"tags": [ "templated", "prod" ],
"timezone": "browser",
"panels": [
    {
    }
],
"schemaVersion": 6,
"message": "version control message" // this is optional
}

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
   "slug": "production-overview",
   "status": "success",
   "version": 2
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Updated
  • 400 - Invalid JSON

Get dashboard

GET /api/v2/grafana/dashboards/:slug - Returns a dashboard given the dashboard slug, a url friendly version of the dashboard title.

Curl example:

curl -X GET https://YOUR-API-KEY@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/dashboards/production-overview

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "meta": {
        "isStarred": false,
        "slug": "production-overview"
    },
    "model": {
        "id": null,
        "title": "Production Overview",
        "tags": [ "templated" ],
        "timezone": "browser",
        "panels": [
            {
            }
        ]
        "schemaVersion": 6,
        "version": 0
    },
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Found
  • 400 - No dashboard specified
  • 404 - Dashboard not found

Delete dashboard

DELETE /api/v2/grafana/dashboards/:slug - Deletes a dashboard given the dashboard slug.

Curl example:

curl -X DELETE https://YOUR-API-KEY@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/dashboards/production-overview

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

{"title": "Production Overview"}

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Deleted
  • 400 - No dashboard specified
  • 404 - Dashboard not found

Get dashboard tags

GET /api/v2/grafana/tags - Get all tags of dashboards.

Curl example:

curl -X GET https://YOUR-API-KEY@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/tags

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

[
    {
        "term":"templated",
        "count":1
    },
    {
        "term":"production",
        "count":4
    }
]

Status Codes:

  • 200 - OK

Search dashboards

GET /api/v2/grafana/search - Returns a list of dashboards given a search query.

Curl example:

curl -i -X GET https://YOUR-API-KEY@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/search?query=prod

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

[
    {
        "id":1,
        "title":"Production Overview",
        "uri":"db/production-overview",
        "type":"dash-db",
        "tags":[ templated, production ],
        "isStarred":true
    },
    {
        "id":4,
        "title":"Production Webservers",
        "uri":"db/production-webservers",
        "type":"dash-db",
        "tags":[ production ],
        "isStarred":true
    }
]

Curl Example to Return all Dashboards:

curl -i -X GET https://YOUR-API-KEY@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/search\?query\=%

Status Codes:

  • 200 - OK
  • 400 - Invalid form data

Dashboard Rendered PNGs

GET /api/v2/grafana/render/?target=foo.bar - Returns a link to a publicly accessible .PNG image of a dashboard panel

Curl Example:

curl -i -X GET "https://<api-key>@api.hostedgraphite.com/api/v2/grafana/render/?target=foo.bar"

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

http://i.mfhg.io/render-api/<user-id>/<filename>.png

Status Codes:

  • 200 - OK
  • 400 - Invalid form data

To display any data on the graph you must include a ‘target’, you can append multiple targets to the request as follows:

?target=foo.bar.A&target=foo.bar.B

Available Parameters (default values in brackets):

  • from (-6h)
    Format: -<num>m|h|d|w|M|Y
    Example: &from=-6h for the last 6 hours
  • to (now)
    Format: now-<num>m|h|d|w|M|Y
    Example: &to=now-2h for data up to 2 hours ago
  • width (1000)
    Format: number measured in pixels
    Example: &width=1200
  • height (500)
    Format: number measured in pixels
    Example: &height=500
  • theme (dark)
    Format: “light” | “dark”
    Example: &theme=light
  • fill (1)
    Format: number in range 0 (no fill) to 10
    Example: &fill=3

Time Queries:

  • m = Minutes
  • h = Hours
  • d = Days
  • w = Weeks
  • M = Months
  • Y = Years