Create Datasource Via API

Grafana Developers & API
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  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    9.7.7 in ubuntu 22
  • What are you trying to achieve?
    Copy the datasource obtained with a get and create the datasource with a post in a different grafana with the previous obtained data
  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    GET/POST via postman
  • What happened?
    bad request data
  • What did you expect to happen?
    create a datasource
  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?
    [{“id”:1,“uid”:“Oy1lzRPVk”,“orgId”:1,“name”:“InfluxDB”,“type”:“influxdb”,“typeName”:“InfluxDB”,“typeLogoUrl”:“public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/img/influxdb_logo.svg”,“access”:“proxy”,“url”:“http://localhost:8086”,“user”:“myUser”,“database”:“myDb”,“basicAuth”:false,“isDefault”:true,“jsonData”:{},“readOnly”:false}]
  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.
    {“message”:“bad request data”,“traceID”:“”}
  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?
    Data source HTTP API | Grafana documentation
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You are not supposed to provide id with your create request. Instead, the server will assign an id and you will get it back in the response.

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Thanks for the fast reply, but i already try without the id.

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that is my last POST and gives me the same bad request, 400 {“name”:“InfluxDB”,“type”:“influxdb”,“typeName”:“InfluxDB”,“typeLogoUrl”:“public/app/plugins/datasource/influxdb/img/influxdb_logo.svg”,“access”:“proxy”,“url”:“http://localhost:8086”,“user”:“USER”,“database”:“DATABASE”,“basicAuth”:false,“isDefault”:true,“jsonData”:{},“readOnly”:false}