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Folder/Dashboard Search API

Note

Starting in Grafana 13, /api endpoints are being deprecated in favor of the /apis route. Note that while Grafana is working on migrating existing APIs, currently there may not be an exact match to the legacy API you’re using.

This change doesn’t disrupt or break your current setup. Legacy APIs are not being disabled and remain fully accessible and operative, but /api routes will no longer be updated.

To learn more refer to the new API structure in Grafana.

Search folders and dashboards

GET /api/search/

Note: When using Role-based access control, search results will contain only dashboards and folders which you have access to.

Query parameters:

  • query – Search Query
  • tag – List of tags to search for
  • type – Type to search for, dash-folder or dash-db
  • dashboardIds – List of dashboard id’s to search for
  • dashboardUID - List of dashboard uid’s to search for, It is deprecated since Grafana v9.1, please use dashboardUIDs instead
  • dashboardUIDs – List of dashboard uid’s to search for
  • folderUIDs – List of folder UIDs to search in
  • starred – Flag indicating if only starred Dashboards should be returned
  • limit – Limit the number of returned results (max is 5000; default is 1000). If an invalid value is provided (for example, strings or special characters), the parameter defaults to 1000.
  • page – Use this parameter to access hits beyond limit. Numbering starts at 1. limit param acts as page size.

Example request for retrieving folders and dashboards at the root level:

http 
GET /api/search?query=&starred=false HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example response for retrieving folders and dashboards at the root level:

http 
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

[
  {
    "id": 163,
    "uid": "000000163",
    "orgId": 1,
    "title": "Folder",
    "url": "/dashboards/f/000000163/folder",
    "type": "dash-folder",
    "tags": [],
    "isStarred": false,
    "uri":"db/folder" // deprecated in Grafana v5.0
  },
  {
    "id":1,
    "uid": "cIBgcSjkk",
    "orgId": 1,
    "title":"Production Overview",
    "url": "/d/cIBgcSjkk/production-overview",
    "type":"dash-db",
    "tags":[prod],
    "isStarred":true,
    "uri":"db/production-overview" // deprecated in Grafana v5.0
  }
]

Example request searching for dashboards:

http 
GET /api/search?query=Production%20Overview&starred=true&tag=prod HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example response searching for dashboards:

http 
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json

[
  {
    "id":1,
    "uid": "cIBgcSjkk",
    "orgId": 1,
    "title":"Production Overview",
    "url": "/d/cIBgcSjkk/production-overview",
    "type":"dash-db",
    "tags":[prod],
    "isStarred":true,
    "folderId": 2,
    "folderUid": "000000163",
    "folderTitle": "Folder",
    "folderUrl": "/dashboards/f/000000163/folder",
    "uri":"db/production-overview" // deprecated in Grafana v5.0
  }
]