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Kong Dashboards API

The Dashboards API from Kong — 2 operation(s) for dashboards.

Kong Dashboards API is one of 139 APIs that Kong publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.

Tagged areas include Dashboards. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, a GitHub repository, an API reference, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema.

This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 41 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.14.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, {protocol}://{hostname}:{port}{path}.

5 operations 2 paths 41 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
3.14.0
Base URL
https://konghq.com/
Authentication
API Key
Contact
License
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Kong Dashboards API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Kong-Admin-Token (adminToken). By default, every request must be authenticated.

Paths & Operations 5

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Dashboards 5
GET
/v2/dashboards
List dashboards
dashboards-list 4 params → 200401403
POST
/v2/dashboards
Create a new dashboard
dashboards-create body → 201400401403
GET
/v2/dashboards/{dashboardId}
Get a single dashboard
dashboards-get 1 param → 200401403404
PUT
/v2/dashboards/{dashboardId}
Update an existing dashboard
dashboards-update 1 param body → 200400401403404
DELETE
/v2/dashboards/{dashboardId}
Delete an existing dashboard
dashboards-delete 1 param → 204401403404

Schemas 41

The contract defines 41 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DashboardResponse (7 properties), AdvancedQuery (6 properties), AgenticQuery (6 properties), LLMQuery (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Granularity
string
Force time grouping into buckets of the specified duration. Only has an effect if "time" is in the "dimensions" list. The granularity of the result may be coar…
UpdatedAt
string
An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity update date.
LLMFilters
array
A list of filters to apply to the query.
LLMMetrics
array
List of aggregated metrics to collect across the requested time span.
AgenticQuery
object
A query targeting the agentic usage analytics datasource.
6 properties 1 required
AdvancedFilters
array
A list of filters to apply to the query.
DashboardUpdateRequest
object
3 properties 2 required
UuidFieldFilter
object
Filter using one of the following operators: eq, oeq, neq
3 properties
AgenticFilters
array
A list of filters to apply to the query.
UUID
string
Contains a unique identifier used for this resource.
LLMQuery
object
A query targeting the LLM usage analytics datasource.
6 properties 1 required
Labels
object
Labels store metadata of an entity that can be used for filtering an entity list or for searching across entity types. Keys must be of length 1-63 characters,…
ForbiddenError
UnauthorizedError
MetricsRelativeTimeRangeDtoV2
object
A duration representing a relative-to-now span of time. Generally the start time is floored to the requested granularity. Eg 7d from now, with 1day granularity…
3 properties 2 required
DonutChart
object
A chart that can display one-dimensional data in a hollow, segmented circle. To use this chart, ensure that the query includes only one dimension (not time).
2 properties 1 required
ChoroplethMapChart
object
A chart that displays data on a world map. Each region on the map is colored based on the metric value. This chart works only with the apiusage datasource and…
2 properties 1 required
DashboardFilterParameters
object
5 properties
PaginatedMeta
object
returns the pagination information
1 property 1 required
StringFieldFilter
object
Filter using one of the following operators: eq, oeq, neq, contains, ocontains
5 properties
SingleValueChart
object
A chart that can render a single number. This chart works with a single metric and no dimensions.
3 properties 1 required
Dashboard
object
A JSON object describing a dashboard. A dashboard is an array of tiles. All tiles are of type 'chart', which query data and render a chart displaying that data…
2 properties 1 required
BarChart
object
A chart that can display non-timeseries data as bars. This type of chart supports up to 2 dimensions (not time). To render a bar chart of timeseries data, use…
3 properties 1 required
CreatedAt
string
An ISO-8601 timestamp representation of entity creation date.
BaseError
object
standard error
5 properties 4 required
AllFilterItems
object
3 properties 2 required
SortQuery
string
The asc suffix is optional as the default sort order is ascending. The desc suffix is used to specify a descending order. Multiple sort attributes may be provi…
AdvancedQuery
object
A query targeting the API usage analytics datasource.
6 properties 1 required
TimeseriesChart
object
A chart that can render timeseries data -- data from a query that has time as a dimension -- as lines or bars. This type of chart can support: - One or more me…
3 properties 1 required
Tile
AdvancedMetrics
array
List of aggregated metrics to collect across the requested time span. If no metrics are specified, requestcount will be computed by default.
Chart
The type of chart to render.
MetricsAbsoluteTimeRangeDtoV2
object
A duration representing an exact start and end time.
4 properties 1 required
DashboardResponse
object
7 properties 2 required
DateTimeFieldFilter
Filters on the given datetime (RFC-3339) field value.
ChartTile
object
A tile that queries data and renders a chart.
3 properties 3 required
PageMeta
object
Contains pagination query parameters and the total number of objects returned.
3 properties 3 required
AgenticMetrics
array
List of aggregated metrics to collect across the requested time span.
TimeRange
The time range to query.
NotFoundError
LabelsFieldFilter

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

kong-dashboards-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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