I have a visual in grafana. I can manually go to the menu click export and export the time series data in json. This works great. Is there a way I can script that in python?. Is there some api I can hit that will return the json of a visual?
I was googling around and it looks like I can use the api to create dashboards/visuals and administer them but not sure where how to use the api to export the data.
Here's a Python script to export then dashboard json, not the presented data. Tested on Python 2.7:
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Grafana dashboard exporter"""
import json
import os
import requests
HOST = 'http://localhost:3000'
API_KEY = os.environ["grafana_api_key"]
DIR = 'exported-dashboards/'
def main():
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % (API_KEY,)}
response = requests.get('%s/api/search?query=&' % (HOST,), headers=headers)
response.raise_for_status()
dashboards = response.json()
if not os.path.exists(DIR):
os.makedirs(DIR)
for d in dashboards:
print ("Saving: " + d['title'])
response = requests.get('%s/api/dashboards/%s' % (HOST, d['uri']), headers=headers)
data = response.json()['dashboard']
dash = json.dumps(data, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))
name = data['title'].replace(' ', '_').replace('/', '_').replace(':', '').replace('[', '').replace(']', '')
tmp = open(DIR + name + '.json', 'w')
tmp.write(dash)
tmp.write('\n')
tmp.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Usage: You should first create an API key in Grafana and then run:
grafana_api_key=my-key python export-dash.py
Credit: This is a simplified version of https://github.com/percona/grafana-dashboards/blob/master/misc/export-dash.py
http://docs.grafana.org/http_api/data_source/#data-source-proxy-calls. Visit your browser console (network tab) and you will see how it works there.
You could also use this Go client https://github.com/netsage-project/grafana-dashboard-manager
Its purpose is not what you are looking for, but it is possible to reuse that code.
