Error uploading dashboard to grafana.com through API

Grafana
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Hi! I’m trying to upload a dashboard to grafana.com but I’m getting an error, this is the command i use:

curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRAFANA_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @dashboard.json https://grafana.com/api/dashboards/db

and this is the response i get:

{
  "code": "InvalidArgument",
  "message": "Unexpected parameter: dashboard"
}

The format of the son file follows the schema described here https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/dashboard/

Any help is very appreciated, thanks!

2

That is dashboard model for dashboard API. But you need different model, which you can get from the UI only (export dashboard from your browser). You can compare these 2 models and you will see difference.

3

Thanks a lot for your response @jangaraj i also tried with the exported model and got a similar error:

{
  "code": "InvalidArgument",
  "message": "Unexpected parameter: __inputs"
}
4

How did you know that URL https://grafana.com/api/dashboards/db is for dashboard uploading? IMHO you are mixing Grafana (product) HTTP API with Grafana.com (web portal) API.

Why you don’t use Grafana.com UI, when you want to publish your dashboard?

5

Yeah, that is possible, I verified that a GET to https://grafana.com/api/dashboards gives me a json with the complete list of dashboards, same as the dashboards list in the browser. Also, that queries to /api/dashboards require proper authentication and the response looks meaningful. But I haven’t found anywhere saying that this is possible, it would be great if someone in the community can clarify.

My goal is to host the dashboard json on a repo and upload it in the final stage of the CI/CD pipeline.

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6

Hi,
I’m also interested in the same process.
We want to publish our dashboard after a CICD process. (internal review, archive and public publication to grafana hub and so on…).
I still didn’t find any information about the url and the method to do this while there are api keys…
Thanks,
Thierry

Thanks