GEL admin API

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:05:47 +0000

GEL Admin API

NOTE: Admin API version v1 /admin/api/v1/ and v2 /admin/api/v2/ endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the new Admin API version v3 endpoints /admin/api/v3/ instead.

It is also possible to create tenants, access policies, and tokens using the plugin.

Tenants

A tenant is made up of the following fields:

name: The machine-readable name of a tenant. It must be between 3 and 64 characters and only include the following characters, [a-z0-9-_]. Once set, this field is immutable.
display_name: The human-readable name of a tenant. It can contain any set of characters and can be changed.
status: The current status of this tenant. It can have the following values:
- active
- inactive
- unknown
cluster: The name of the GEL cluster to which this tenant is scoped. You can only write to or query this tenant from this cluster.

List tenants

GET /admin/api/v1/instances GET /admin/api/v2/tenants

Deprecated: These endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint GET /admin/api/v3/tenants instead.

GET /admin/api/v3/tenants

Note
This endpoint only returns tenants in an active status. To get all tenants including inactive ones use the query parameter include-non-active=true.

Example:

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/tenants | jq
{
  "items": [
    {
      "name": "enterprise-logs-dev",
      "display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs dev tenant",
      "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
      "status": "active",
      "cluster": "dev-cluster"
    }
  ],
  "type": "tenant"
}

Create a tenant

POST /admin/api/v1/instances POST /admin/api/v2/tenants

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint POST /admin/api/v3/tenants instead.

POST /admin/api/v3/tenants

Because tenant names are unique, you cannot create a new tenant with the same name as a tenant that already exists but is in the inactive state. Instead, to use the same tenant name again you must re-enable the inactive tenant by updating its state to active. To make this change, use the Update Tenant endpoint. When creating a tenant via this API call, it is not required to specify the status field because the status is always overwritten by the API to active.

Example:

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/tenants \
--data '{"name":"dev", "display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs dev tenant", "cluster": "dev-cluster"}'

Update tenant

PUT /admin/api/v1/instances/{name} PUT /admin/api/v2/tenants/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/tenants instead.

PUT /admin/api/v3/tenants/{name}

Example:

curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/tenants/enterprise-logs-dev \
-X PUT -H 'If-Match: "123"` \
--data '{"display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs dev tenant", "status": "active", "cluster": "dev-cluster"}' | jq
{
  "name": "enterprise-logs-dev",
  "display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs dev tenant",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "active",
  "cluster": "dev-cluster"
}

Read tenant details

GET /admin/api/v1/instances/{name} GET /admin/api/v2/tenants/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint GET /admin/api/v3/tenants/{name} instead.

GET /admin/api/v3/tenants/{name}

Example:

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/tenants/enterprise-logs-dev | jq
{
  "name": "enterprise-logs-dev",
  "display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs dev tenant",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "active",
  "cluster": "dev-cluster"
}

Delete a tenant

DELETE /admin/api/v1/instances/{name} DELETE /admin/api/v2/tenants/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. In Admin API version v3, delete operations are no longer supported and have been replaced by soft deletes. Use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/tenants/{name} with "status": "inactive" instead. This operation will inactivate a tenant and subsequent HTTP requests for the tenant will fail with a 401 Unauthorized HTTP status code. To re-enable a tenant, use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/tenants/{name} with "status": "active".

PUT /admin/api/v3/tenants/{name}

Example API call for marking a tenant inactive:

curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/tenants/enterprise-logs-dev \
-X PUT -H 'If-Match: "123"` \
--data '{"status": "inactive", "cluster": "dev-cluster"}' | jq
{
  "name": "enterprise-logs-dev",
  "display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs dev tenant",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "inactive",
  "cluster": "dev-cluster"
}

Access policies

An access policy is made up of the following fields:

name: The machine-readable name of a policy.
display_name: The human-readable name of a tenant. It can contain any set of characters and can be changed.
created_at: An RFC3339-formatted date time.
realms: A list of realms.
scopes: A list of scopes.

A realm designates the tenant/cluster pairs for which the access policy allows requests:

tenant: You must set this field to an existing tenant or *. *, which denotes access to all tenants.
cluster: You must set this field to an existing cluster.

A scope designates what operations that the tokens, which are assigned to this access policy, are able to perform when calling the GEL API.

logs:read: Permission to view data from a tenant.
logs:write: Permission to write data to a tenant.
logs:delete: Permission to delete data from a tenant.
admin: Permission to perform admin operations.

List access policies

GET /admin/api/v1/accesspolicies GET /admin/api/v2/accesspolicies

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint GET /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies instead.

GET /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies

NOTES:

This endpoint only returns access policies in an active status. To get all access policies including inactive ones use the query parameter include-non-active=true

Example:

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/accesspolicies | jq
{
  "items": [
    {
      "name": "ap1",
      "display_name": "First access policy",
      "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
      "status": "active",
      "realms": [
        {
          "tenant": "enterprise-logs-dev",
          "cluster": "dev-cluster"
        }
      ],
      "scopes": [
        "logs:read",
        "logs:write"
      ]
    },
  ],
  "type": "access_policy"
}

Create access policy

POST /admin/api/v1/accesspolicies POST /admin/api/v2/accesspolicies

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint POST /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies instead.

POST /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies

Because access policy names are unique, you cannot create a new access policy with the same name as an access policy that already exists but is in the inactive state. Instead, to use the same access policy name again you must re-enable the inactive access policy by updating its state to active. To make this change, use the Update Access Policy endpoint. When creating an access policy via this API call, it is not required to specify the status field because the status is always overwritten by the API to active.

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/accesspolicies \
--data '{"name":"ap1", "display_name": "First access policy", \
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z", \
  "realms": [{"tenant": "enterprise-logs-dev", "cluster": "dev-cluster"}], \
  "scopes": ["logs:read", "logs:write"]}'

Update access policy

PUT /admin/api/v1/accesspolicies/{name} PUT /admin/api/v2/accesspolicies/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/{name} instead.

PUT /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/{name}

Example:

curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/enterprise-logs-dev \
-X PUT -H 'If-Match: "123"` \
--data '{"display_name": "First access policy", \
  "status": "active", \
  "realms": [{"tenant": "enterprise-logs-dev", "cluster": "dev-cluster"}], \
  "scopes": ["logs:read", "logs:write"]}' | jq
{
  "name": "ap1",
  "display_name": "First access policy",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "active",
  "realms": [
    {
      "tenant": "enterprise-logs-dev",
      "cluster": "dev-cluster"
    }
  ],
  "scopes": [
    "logs:read",
    "logs:write"
  ]
}

Get access policy

GET /admin/api/v1/accesspolicies/{name} GET /admin/api/v2/accesspolicies/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint GET /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/{name} instead.

GET /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/{name}

Example:

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/ap1 | jq
{
  "name": "ap1",
  "display_name": "First access policy",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "active",
  "realms": [
    {
      "tenant": "enterprise-logs-dev",
      "cluster": "dev-cluster"
    }
  ],
  "scopes": [
    "logs:read",
    "logs:write"
  ]
}

Delete access policy

DELETE /admin/api/v1/accesspolicies/{name} DELETE /admin/api/v2/accesspolicies/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. In Admin API version v3, delete operations are no longer supported and have been replaced by soft deletes. Use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/{name} with "status": "inactive" instead. This operation will inactivate an access policy and subsequent HTTP requests with an associated token will fail with a 401 Unauthorized HTTP status code. To re-enable an access policy, use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/{name} with "status": "active".

PUT /admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/{name}

Example API call for setting an access policy to inactive state:

curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/accesspolicies/enterprise-logs-dev \
-X PUT -H 'If-Match: "123"` \
--data '{"status": "inactive", "display_name": "First access policy", \
  "realms": [{"tenant": "enterprise-logs-dev", "cluster": "dev-cluster"}], \
  "scopes": ["logs:read", "logs:write"]}' | jq
{
  "name": "ap1",
  "display_name": "First access policy",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "inactive",
  "realms": [
    {
      "tenant": "enterprise-logs-dev",
      "cluster": "dev-cluster"
    }
  ],
  "scopes": [
    "logs:read",
    "logs:write"
  ]
}

Tokens

A token is made up of the following fields:

name: The machine-readable name of a policy.
display_name: The human-readable name of a tenant. It can contain any set of characters and can be changed.
created_at: An RFC3339-formatted date time.
expiration: An RFC3339-formatted date time.
access_policy: The name of the access policy

Create a token

POST /admin/api/v1/tokens POST /admin/api/v2/tokens

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint POST /admin/api/v3/tokens instead.

POST /admin/api/v3/tokens

Because token names are unique, you cannot create a new token with the same name as a token that already exists but is in the inactive state. Instead, to use the same token name again you must re-enable the inactive token by updating its state to active. To make this change, use the PUT /admin/api/v3/tokens/{name} endpoint. When creating a token via this API call, it is not required to specify the status field because the status is always overwritten by the API to active.

Example:

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/tokens \
--data '{"name":"devtoken", "display_name":"Dev token", \
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z", \
  "expiration": "2021-03-01T17:37:59.341728283Z", \
  "access_policy": "ap1"}'

Get token

GET /admin/api/v1/tokens/{name} GET /admin/api/v2/tokens/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. Use the endpoint GET /admin/api/v3/tokens/{name} instead.

GET /admin/api/v3/tokens/{name}

NOTES:

The current version of the token will be returned in an ETag header on the response.

Example:

$ curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:3100/admin/api/v3/tokens/logs-enterprise-token | jq
{
  "name": "logs-enterprise-token",
  "display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs Dev Token",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "active",
  "access_policy": "ap1",
  "expiration": "2021-03-01T17:37:59.341728283Z"
}

Delete a token

DELETE /admin/api/v1/tokens/{name} DELETE /admin/api/v2/tokens/{name}

Deprecated: these endpoints are deprecated and will be removed in a future release of GEL. In Admin API version v3, delete operations are no longer supported and have been replaced by soft deletes. Use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/tokens/{name} with "status": "inactive" instead. This operation will inactivate a token and subsequent HTTP requests with the token will fail with a 401 Unauthorized HTTP status code. To re-enable a token, use the endpoint PUT /admin/api/v3/tokens/{name} with "status": "active".

PUT /admin/api/v3/tokens/{name}

{
  "status": "inactive"
}

NOTES:

If-Match header matching the current version is required.

Example:

curl -u :$API_TOKEN localhost:8080/admin/api/v3/tokens/logs-enterprise-token \
-X PUT -H 'If-Match: "123"` \
--data '{"status": "inactive"}' | jq
{
  "name": "logs-enterprise-token",
  "display_name": "Grafana Enterprise Logs Dev Token",
  "created_at": "2021-02-01T17:37:59.341728283Z",
  "status": "inactive",
  "access_policy": "ap1",
  "expiration": "2021-03-01T17:37:59.341728283Z"
}

Verify that you can write data to your GEL tenant

The following command pushes a log line by using the Loki API. The TOKEN environment variable contains the preceding token that was created. The value 1612951327316545500 is the current Unix epoch time in nanoseconds at the time of writing; adjust this to the current time. On Linux, you can use the date +%s%N command:

$ date +%s%N
1612951327316545500

Next, the timestamp is used to push a log line:

$ curl -u :$TOKEN localhost:3100/loki/api/v1/push \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "X-Scope-OrdID: dev" \
--data '{"streams": [{ "stream": { "job": "example" }, "values": [ [ "1612951327316545500", "A log line" ] ] }]}'

Grafana Enterprise Logs reference topics on Grafana Labs

GEL admin API

GEL Admin API

Tenants

List tenants

Create a tenant

Update tenant

Read tenant details

Delete a tenant

Access policies

List access policies

Create access policy

Update access policy

Get access policy

Delete access policy

Tokens

Create a token

Get token

Delete a token

Verify that you can write data to your GEL tenant

GEL Node API

GEL Node API

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