Folder HTTP API

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Enterprise Open source

New Folders APIs

If you are running Grafana Enterprise, for some endpoints you’ll need to have specific permissions. Refer to Role-based access control permissions for more information.

To view more about the new api structure, refer to API overview.

Get all folders

GET /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/:namespace/folders

Returns all folders that the authenticated user has permission to view within the given organization. Use the limit query parameter to control the maximum number of dashboards returned. To retrieve additional dashboards, utilize the continue token provided in the response to fetch the next page.

  • namespace: to read more about the namespace to use, see the API overview.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:readfolders:*

Example Request:

http 
GET /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/default/folders?limit=1 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example Response:

http 
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "kind": "FolderList",
  "apiVersion": "folder.grafana.app/v1beta1",
  "metadata": {
    "continue": "org:1/start:1158/folder:"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "kind": "Folder",
      "apiVersion": "folder.grafana.app/v1beta1",
      "metadata": {
        "name": "aef30vrzxs3y8d",
        "namespace": "default",
        "uid": "KCtv1FXDsJmTYQoTgcPnfuwZhDZge3uMpXOefaOHjb4X",
        "resourceVersion": "1741343686000",
        "creationTimestamp": "2025-03-07T10:34:46Z",
        "annotations": {
          "grafana.app/createdBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
          "grafana.app/updatedBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
          "grafana.app/updatedTimestamp": "2025-03-07T10:34:46Z"
        }
      },
      "spec": {
        "title": "example"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 – OK
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access Denied

Get folder by uid

GET /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/:namespace/folders/:uid

Will return the folder given the folder uid.

  • namespace: to read more about the namespace to use, see the API overview.
  • uid: the unique identifier of the folder to update. this will be the name in the folder response

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:readfolders:*

Example Request:

http 
GET /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/default/folders/aef30vrzxs3y8d HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example Response:

http 
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "kind": "Folder",
  "apiVersion": "folder.grafana.app/v1beta1",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "aef30vrzxs3y8d",
    "namespace": "default",
    "uid": "KCtv1FXDsJmTYQoTgcPnfuwZhDZge3uMpXOefaOHjb4X",
    "resourceVersion": "1741343686000",
    "creationTimestamp": "2025-03-07T10:34:46Z",
    "annotations": {
      "grafana.app/createdBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
      "grafana.app/updatedBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
      "grafana.app/updatedTimestamp": "2025-03-07T10:34:46Z",
      "grafana.app/folder": "fef30w4jaxla8b"
    }
  },
  "spec": {
    "title": "test"
  }
}

Note the annotation grafana.app/folder which contains the uid of the parent folder.

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Found
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access Denied
  • 404 – Folder not found

Create folder

POST /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/:namespace/folders

Creates a new folder.

  • namespace: to read more about the namespace to use, see the API overview.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

folders:create allows creating folders and subfolders. If granted with scope folders:uid:general, allows creating root level folders. Otherwise, allows creating subfolders under the specified folders.

ActionScope
folders:createfolders:*
folders:writefolders:*

Example Request:

http 
POST /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/default/folders HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

{
  "metadata": {
    "name": "aef30vrzxs3y8d",
    "annotations": {
      "grafana.app/folder": "fef30w4jaxla8b"
    }
  }
  "spec": {
    "title": "child-folder"
  },
}

JSON Body schema:

  • metadata.name – The Grafana unique identifier. If you do not want to provide this, set metadata.generateName to the prefix you would like for the uid.
  • metadata.annotations.grafana.app/folder - Optional field, the unique identifier of the parent folder under which the folder should be created. Requires nested folders to be enabled.
  • spec.title – The title of the folder.

Example Response:

http 
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "kind": "Folder",
  "apiVersion": "folder.grafana.app/v1beta1",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "eef33r1fprd34d",
    "namespace": "default",
    "uid": "X8momvVZnsXdOqvLD9I4ngqLVif2CgRWXHy9xb2UgjQX",
    "resourceVersion": "1741320415009",
    "creationTimestamp": "2025-03-07T04:06:55Z",
    "labels": {
      "grafana.app/deprecatedInternalID": "1159"
    },
    "annotations": {
      "grafana.app/folder": "fef30w4jaxla8b",
      "grafana.app/createdBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb"
    }
  },
  "spec": {
    "title": "child-folder"
  }
}

Status Codes:

  • 201 – Created
  • 400 – Errors (invalid json, missing or invalid fields, etc)
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access denied
  • 409 – Conflict (folder with the same uid already exists)

Update folder

PUT /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/:namespace/folders/:uid

Updates an existing folder identified by uid.

  • namespace: to read more about the namespace to use, see the API overview.
  • uid: the unique identifier of the folder to update. this will be the name in the folder response

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:writefolders:*

Example Request:

http 
PUT /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/default/folders/fef30w4jaxla8b HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

"metadata": {
    "name": "aef30vrzxs3y8d",
    "annotations": {
      "grafana.app/folder": "xkj92m5pqw3vn4"
    }
  }
  "spec": {
    "title": "updated title"
  },

JSON Body schema:

  • metadata.name – The unique identifier of the folder.
  • metadata.annotations.grafana.app/folder - Optional field, the unique identifier of the parent folder under which the folder should be - update this to move the folder under a different parent folder. Requires nested folders to be enabled.
  • spec.title – The title of the folder.

Example Response:

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

{
  "kind": "Folder",
  "apiVersion": "folder.grafana.app/v1beta1",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "fef30w4jaxla8b",
    "namespace": "default",
    "uid": "YaWLsFrMwEaTlIQwX2iMnhHlJuZHtZugps50BQoyjXEX",
    "resourceVersion": "1741345736000",
    "creationTimestamp": "2025-03-07T11:08:56Z",
    "annotations": {
      "grafana.app/folder": "xkj92m5pqw3vn4",
      "grafana.app/createdBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
      "grafana.app/updatedBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
      "grafana.app/updatedTimestamp": "2025-03-07T11:08:56Z"
    }
  },
  "spec": {
    "title": "updated title"
  }
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Updated
  • 400 – Errors (invalid json, missing or invalid fields, etc)
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access Denied
  • 404 – Folder not found
  • 412 – Precondition failed (the folder has been changed by someone else). With this status code, the response body will have the following properties:
http 
HTTP/1.1 412 Precondition Failed
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 97

{
  "message": "The folder has been changed by someone else",
  "status": "version-mismatch"
}

Delete folder

DELETE /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/:namespace/folders/:uid

Deletes an existing folder identified by UID along with all dashboards (and their alerts) stored in the folder. This operation cannot be reverted.

If Grafana Alerting is enabled, you can set an optional query parameter forceDeleteRules=false so that requests will fail with 400 (Bad Request) error if the folder contains any Grafana alerts. However, if this parameter is set to true then it will delete any Grafana alerts under this folder.

  • namespace: to read more about the namespace to use, see the API overview.
  • uid: the unique identifier of the folder to delete. this will be the name in the folder response

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:deletefolders:*

Example Request:

http 
DELETE /apis/folder.grafana.app/v1beta1/namespaces/default/folders/fef30w4jaxla8b HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example Response:

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

{
  "kind": "Folder",
  "apiVersion": "folder.grafana.app/v1beta1",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "fef30w4jaxla8b",
    "namespace": "default",
    "uid": "YaWLsFrMwEaTlIQwX2iMnhHlJuZHtZugps50BQoyjXEX",
    "resourceVersion": "1741345736000",
    "creationTimestamp": "2025-03-07T11:08:56Z",
    "annotations": {
      "grafana.app/folder": "xkj92m5pqw3vn4",
      "grafana.app/createdBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
      "grafana.app/updatedBy": "service-account:cef2t2rfm73lsb",
      "grafana.app/updatedTimestamp": "2025-03-07T11:08:56Z"
    }
  },
  "spec": {
    "title": "updated title"
  }
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Deleted
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 400 – Bad Request
  • 403 – Access Denied
  • 404 – Folder not found

APIs

Identifier (id) vs unique identifier (uid)

The unique identifier (uid) of a folder can be used for uniquely identify folders within an org. It’s automatically generated if not provided when creating a folder. The uid allows having consistent URLs for accessing folders and when syncing folders between multiple Grafana installs. This means that changing the title of a folder will not break any bookmarked links to that folder.

The uid can have a maximum length of 40 characters.

The identifier (id) of a folder is deprecated in favor of the unique identifier (uid).

Get all folders

GET /api/folders

Returns all folders that the authenticated user has permission to view. You can control the maximum number of folders returned through the limit query parameter, the default is 1000. You can also pass the page query parameter for fetching folders from a page other than the first one.

If nested folders are enabled, the operation expects an additional optional query parameter parentUid with the parent folder UID, and returns the immediate subfolders that the authenticated user has permission to view. If the parameter is not supplied, then the operation returns immediate subfolders under the root that the authenticated user has permission to view.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:readfolders:*

Example Request:

http 
GET /api/folders?limit=10 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example Response:

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

[
  {
    "id":1,
    "uid": "nErXDvCkzz",
    "title": "Department ABC"
  },
  {
    "id":2,
    "uid": "k3S1cklGk",
    "title": "Department RND"
  }
]

Get folder by uid

GET /api/folders/:uid

Will return the folder given the folder uid.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:readfolders:*

Example Request:

http 
GET /api/folders/nErXDvCkzzh HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example Response:

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

{
  "id":1,
  "uid": "nErXDvCkzz",
  "title": "Department ABC",
  "url": "/dashboards/f/nErXDvCkzz/department-abc",
  "hasAcl": false,
  "canSave": true,
  "canEdit": true,
  "canAdmin": true,
  "createdBy": "admin",
  "created": "2018-01-31T17:43:12+01:00",
  "updatedBy": "admin",
  "updated": "2018-01-31T17:43:12+01:00",
  "version": 1
}

If nested folders are enabled, and the folder is nested (lives under another folder), then the response additionally contains:

  • parentUid - The parent folder UID.
  • parents - An array with the whole tree hierarchy, starting from the root going down up to the parent folder.

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Found
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access Denied
  • 404 – Folder not found

Create folder

POST /api/folders

Creates a new folder.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

folders:create allows creating folders and subfolders. If granted with scope folders:uid:general, allows creating root level folders. Otherwise, allows creating subfolders under the specified folders.

ActionScope
folders:createfolders:*
folders:writefolders:*

Example Request:

http 
POST /api/folders HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

{
  "uid": "nErXDvCkzz",
  "title": "Department ABC",
  "parentUid": "fgnj5e52gel76g"
}

JSON Body schema:

  • uid – Optional unique identifier.
  • title – The title of the folder.
  • parentUid - Optional field, the unique identifier of the parent folder under which the folder should be created. Requires nested folders to be enabled.

Example Response:

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

{
  "id":1,
  "uid": "nErXDvCkzz",
  "title": "Department ABC",
  "url": "/dashboards/f/nErXDvCkzz/department-abc",
  "hasAcl": false,
  "canSave": true,
  "canEdit": true,
  "canAdmin": true,
  "createdBy": "admin",
  "created": "2018-01-31T17:43:12+01:00",
  "updatedBy": "admin",
  "updated": "2018-01-31T17:43:12+01:00",
  "version": 1
}

If nested folders are enabled, and the folder is nested (lives under another folder) then the response additionally contains:

  • parentUid - the parent folder UID.
  • parents - an array with the whole tree hierarchy starting from the root going down up to the parent folder.

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Created
  • 400 – Errors (invalid json, missing or invalid fields, etc)
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access Denied
  • 412 - Folder already exists

Update folder

PUT /api/folders/:uid

Updates an existing folder identified by uid.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:writefolders:*

Example Request:

http 
PUT /api/folders/nErXDvCkzz HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

{
  "title":"Department DEF",
  "version": 1
}

JSON Body schema:

  • title – The title of the folder.
  • version – Provide the current version to be able to update the folder. Not needed if overwrite=true.
  • overwrite – Set to true if you want to overwrite existing folder with newer version.

Example Response:

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

{
  "id":1,
  "uid": "nErXDvCkzz",
  "title": "Department DEF",
  "url": "/dashboards/f/nErXDvCkzz/department-def",
  "hasAcl": false,
  "canSave": true,
  "canEdit": true,
  "canAdmin": true,
  "createdBy": "admin",
  "created": "2018-01-31T17:43:12+01:00",
  "updatedBy": "admin",
  "updated": "2018-01-31T17:43:12+01:00",
  "version": 1
}

If nested folders are enabled, and the folder is nested (lives under another folder) then the response additionally contains:

  • parentUid - the parent folder UID.
  • parents - an array with the whole tree hierarchy starting from the root going down up to the parent folder.

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Updated
  • 400 – Errors (invalid json, missing or invalid fields, etc)
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access Denied
  • 404 – Folder not found
  • 412 – Precondition failed

The 412 status code is used for explaining that you cannot update the folder and why. There can be different reasons for this:

  • The folder has been changed by someone else, status=version-mismatch

The response body will have the following properties:

http 
HTTP/1.1 412 Precondition Failed
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 97

{
  "message": "The folder has been changed by someone else",
  "status": "version-mismatch"
}

Delete folder

DELETE /api/folders/:uid

Deletes an existing folder identified by UID along with all dashboards (and their alerts) stored in the folder. This operation cannot be reverted.

If Grafana Alerting is enabled, you can set an optional query parameter forceDeleteRules=false so that requests will fail with 400 (Bad Request) error if the folder contains any Grafana alerts. However, if this parameter is set to true then it will delete any Grafana alerts under this folder.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

ActionScope
folders:deletefolders:*

Example Request:

http 
DELETE /api/folders/nErXDvCkzz HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

Example Response:

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

{
  "message":"Folder deleted",
  "id": 2
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Deleted
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 400 – Bad Request
  • 403 – Access Denied
  • 404 – Folder not found

Move folder

POST /api/folders/:uid/move

Moves the folder.

This is relevant only if nested folders are enabled.

Required permissions

See note in the introduction for an explanation.

If moving the folder under another folder:

ActionScope
folders:createfolders:uid:<destination folder UID>
folders:*

If moving the folder under root:

ActionScope
folders:createfolders:uid:general
folders:*

JSON body schema:

  • parentUid – Optional unique identifier of the new parent folder. If this is empty, then the folder is moved under the root.

Example Request:

http 
POST /api/folders/a5393ec3-5568-4e88-8809-b866968ae8a6/move HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk

{
  "parentUid": "d80b18c0-266a-4aa4-ad5d-5537a00cb8e8",
}

Example Response:

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

{
	"id": 4,
	"uid": "a5393ec3-5568-4e88-8809-b866968ae8a6",
	"title": "just-testing",
	"url": "/dashboards/f/a5393ec3-5568-4e88-8809-b866968ae8a6/just-testing",
	"hasAcl": false,
	"canSave": true,
	"canEdit": true,
	"canAdmin": true,
	"canDelete": true,
	"createdBy": "Anonymous",
	"created": "2023-04-27T21:55:01.593741+03:00",
	"updatedBy": "Anonymous",
	"updated": "2023-04-27T21:55:15.747444+03:00",
	"parentUid": "d80b18c0-266a-4aa4-ad5d-5537a00cb8e8",
	"parents": [
		{
			"id": 2,
			"uid": "d80b18c0-266a-4aa4-ad5d-5537a00cb8e8",
			"title": "f0",
			"url": "",
			"hasAcl": false,
			"canSave": true,
			"canEdit": true,
			"canAdmin": true,
			"canDelete": true,
			"createdBy": "Anonymous",
			"created": "2023-04-27T21:53:46.070672+03:00",
			"updatedBy": "Anonymous",
			"updated": "2023-04-27T21:53:46.070673+03:00"
		}
	]
}

Status Codes:

  • 200 – Moved
  • 400 – Errors (invalid JSON, missing or invalid fields, and so on)
  • 401 – Unauthorized
  • 403 – Access denied
  • 404 – Not found