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Grafana Metrics API

The Metrics API from Grafana — 1 operation(s) for metrics.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

Grafana Metrics API is one of 78 APIs that Grafana publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Metrics. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, a getting-started guide, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 18 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 0.0.1.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: http://{defaultHost}, https://{defaultHost}.

1 operations 1 paths 18 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
0.0.1
Base URL
http://localhost:3000/api
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Basic
Contact
Grafana Labs
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Grafana Metrics API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (api_key). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basic). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Metrics 1
POST
/ds/query
Grafana Query Metrics With Expressions
queryMetricsWithExpressions body → 200207400401403500

Schemas 18

The contract defines 18 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are QueryStatisusedforstoringarbitrarystatisticsmetadatarelatedtoaqueryanditsresulte.g.totalrequesttimedataprocessingtime. (19 properties), FieldConfigrepresentsthedisplaypropertiesforaField. (18 properties), FrameMetamatches (13 properties), InternalDataLink (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

FrameMetamatches
object
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/packages/grafana-data/src/types/data.tsL11 NOTE -- in javascript this can accept any [key: string]: any; however…
13 properties
NoticeprovidesastructureforpresentingnotificationsinGrafanasuserinterface.
object
4 properties
FieldTypeConfig
object
FieldTypeConfig has type specific configs, only one should be active at a time
1 property
Threshold
object
Threshold a single step on the threshold list
3 properties
QueryDataResponsecontainstheresultsfromaQueryDataRequest.
object
It is the return type of a QueryData call.
1 property
InternalDataLink
object
InternalDataLink definition to allow Explore links to be constructed in the backend
6 properties
ErrorResponseBody
object
3 properties 1 required
LinkTransformationConfig
object
4 properties
FieldrepresentsatypedcolumnofdatawithinaFrame.
object
A Field is essentially a slice of various types with extra properties and methods. See NewField() for supported types. The slice data in the Field is a not exp…
3 properties
DataLink
object
DataLink define what
4 properties
FieldConfigrepresentsthedisplaypropertiesforaField.
object
18 properties
FrameisacolumnardatastructurewhereeachcolumnisaField.
object
Each Field is well typed by its FieldType and supports optional Labels. A Frame is a general data container for Grafana. A Frame can be table data or time seri…
4 properties
MetricRequest
object
4 properties 3 required
TimeRange
object
Redefining this to avoid an import cycle
2 properties
QueryStatisusedforstoringarbitrarystatisticsmetadatarelatedtoaqueryanditsresulte.g.totalrequesttimedataprocessingtime.
object
The embedded FieldConfig's display name must be set. It corresponds to the QueryResultMetaStat on the frontend (https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/…
19 properties
DataResponsecontainstheresultsfromaDataQuery.
object
A map of RefIDs (unique query identifiers) to this type makes up the Responses property of a QueryDataResponse. The Error property is used to allow for partial…
4 properties
EnumFieldConfig
object
Enum field config Vector values are used as lookup keys into the enum fields
4 properties
ThresholdsConfig
object
ThresholdsConfig setup thresholds
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

grafana-metrics-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
grafana:grafana-metrics-api
Base URL
http://localhost:3000/api
Docs
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/
Provider
Grafana
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