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Dashboard Versions

Get all dashboard versions by dashboard UID

Query parameters:

  • limit - Maximum number of results to return. Defaults to 1000 if not set, or if an invalid value is passed in.
  • start - Version to start from when returning queries

GET /api/dashboards/uid/:uid/versions

Gets all existing dashboard versions for the dashboard with the given uid.

Example request for getting all dashboard versions:

http 
GET /api/dashboards/uid/QA7wKklGz/versions?limit=2?start=0 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example Response

http 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 428

{
  "continueToken": "",
  "versions": [
    {
      "id": 2,
      "dashboardId": 1,
      "uid": "QA7wKklGz",
      "parentVersion": 1,
      "restoredFrom": 0,
      "version": 2,
      "created": "2017-06-08T17:24:33-04:00",
      "createdBy": "admin",
      "message": "Updated panel title"
    },
    {
      "id": 1,
      "dashboardId": 1,
      "uid": "QA7wKklGz",
      "parentVersion": 0,
      "restoredFrom": 0,
      "version": 1,
      "created": "2017-06-08T17:23:33-04:00",
      "createdBy": "admin",
      "message": "Initial save"
    }
  ]
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Ok
  • 400 - Errors
  • 401 - Unauthorized
  • 404 - Dashboard version not found

Get dashboard version by dashboard UID

GET /api/dashboards/uid/:uid/versions/:version

Get the dashboard version with the given version, for the dashboard with the given UID.

Example request for getting a dashboard version:

http 
GET /api/dashboards/uid/QA7wKklGz/versions/1 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example response:

http 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 1300

{
  "id": 1,
  "dashboardId": 1,
  "uid": "QA7wKklGz",
  "parentVersion": 0,
  "restoredFrom": 0,
  "version": 1,
  "created": "2017-04-26T17:18:38-04:00",
  "message": "Initial save",
  "data": {
    "annotations": {
      "list": [

      ]
    },
    "editable": true,
    "gnetId": null,
    "graphTooltip": 0,
    "id": 1,
    "links": [

    ],
    "rows": [
      {
        "collapse": false,
        "height": "250px",
        "panels": [

        ],
        "repeat": null,
        "repeatIteration": null,
        "repeatRowId": null,
        "showTitle": false,
        "title": "Dashboard Row",
        "titleSize": "h6"
      }
    ],
    "schemaVersion": 14,
      "tags": [

    ],
    "templating": {
      "list": [

      ]
    },
    "time": {
      "from": "now-6h",
      "to": "now"
    },
    "timepicker": {},
    "timezone": "browser",
    "title": "test",
    "version": 1
  },
  "createdBy": "admin"
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Ok
  • 401 - Unauthorized
  • 404 - Dashboard version not found

Restore dashboard by dashboard UID

POST /api/dashboards/uid/:uid/restore

Restores a dashboard to a given dashboard version using uid.

Example request for restoring a dashboard version:

http 
POST /api/dashboards/uid/QA7wKklGz/restore
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

{
  "version": 1
}

JSON body schema:

  • version - The dashboard version to restore to

Example response:

http 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 67

{
  "id": 70,
  "slug": "my-dashboard",
  "status": "success",
  "uid": "QA7wKklGz",
  "url": "/d/QA7wKklGz/my-dashboard",
  "version": 3
}

JSON response body schema:

  • slug - the URL friendly slug of the dashboard’s title
  • status - whether the restoration was successful or not
  • version - the new dashboard version, following the restoration

Status codes:

  • 200 - OK
  • 400 - Bad request (specified version has the same content as the current dashboard)
  • 401 - Unauthorized
  • 404 - Not found (dashboard not found or dashboard version not found)
  • 500 - Internal server error (indicates issue retrieving dashboard tags from database)

Example error response

http 
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 46

{
  "message": "Dashboard version not found"
}

JSON response body schema:

  • message - Message explaining the reason for the request failure.

Compare dashboard versions

POST /api/dashboards/calculate-diff

Compares two dashboard versions by calculating the JSON diff of them.

Example request:

http 
POST /api/dashboards/calculate-diff HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

{
  "base": {
    "dashboardId": 1,
    "version": 1
  },
  "new": {
    "dashboardId": 1,
    "version": 2
  },
  "diffType": "json"
}

JSON body schema:

  • base - an object representing the base dashboard version
  • new - an object representing the new dashboard version
  • diffType - the type of diff to return. Can be “json” or “basic”.

Example response (JSON diff):

http 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

<p id="l1" class="diff-line diff-json-same">
  <!-- Diff omitted -->
</p>

The response is a textual representation of the diff, with the dashboard values being in JSON, similar to the diffs seen on sites like GitHub or GitLab.

Status Codes:

  • 200 - Ok
  • 400 - Bad request (invalid JSON sent)
  • 401 - Unauthorized
  • 404 - Not found

Example response (basic diff):

http 
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

<div class="diff-group">
  <!-- Diff omitted -->
</div>

The response here is a summary of the changes, derived from the diff between the two JSON objects.

Status Codes:

  • 200 - OK
  • 400 - Bad request (invalid JSON sent)
  • 401 - Unauthorized
  • 404 - Not found