Post grafana dashboard to particular folder - grafana

Question

I am trying to use the grafana API to post dashboards to a specific folder. Using the following command, I can see the folder ID's for all folders in my grafana:
curl -X GET http://<username>:<password>#localhost:3000/api/folders?limit=200
[{"id":9,"uid":"6m0M3AZZk","title":"Apps"},{"id":38,"uid":"jEJ5aSVZz","title":"Cluster_Health"},{"id":31,"uid":"vsmJ2dGZz","title":"CPU by App"},{"id":51,"uid":"Fx9ajQXWz","title":"Data Pipeline"},{"id":6,"uid":"dYFMMhZWz","title":"home"},{"id":19,"uid":"qDwG6yWZz","title":"Node_Health"},{"id":18,"uid":"37pWeyWZk","title":"Pending_Data"},{"id":44,"uid":"nreWbxfWz","title":"Prod"},{"id":13,"uid":"PYzEBYZWk","title":"Services"},{"id":27,"uid":"byVe4IMWk","title":"API"}]
Now, I would like to post a dashboard to my Services folder (id 13). However, when I make my request, this dashboard is always going to the General folder. I am using a python script to make my request:
def post_dashboard(filepath):
with open(filepath, "r") as fin:
data = json.loads(fin.read())
data = json.dumps(data)
response = requests.post("http://localhost:3000/api/dashboards/db", headers=headers_raw, data=data)
print(response.json())
print(response.status_code)
My JSON file looks like this:
{"dashboard": {
"annotations": {
"list": [
{
"builtIn": 1,
"datasource": "-- Grafana --",
"enable": true,
"hide": true,
"iconColor": "rgba(0, 211, 255, 1)",
"name": "Annotations & Alerts",
"type": "dashboard"
}
]
},
"editable": true,
"gnetId": null,
"graphTooltip": 0,
"id": null,
"iteration": 1593098750052,
"links": [],
"panels": [
{
"aliasColors": {},
"bars": false,
"dashLength": 10,
"dashes": false,
"datasource": "Prometheus-1",
"description": "The amount of CPU taken up by redis from top command",
"fill": 0,
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 24,
"x": 0,
"y": 0
},
"id": 10,
"legend": {
"avg": false,
"current": false,
"max": false,
"min": false,
"show": true,
"total": false,
"values": false
},
"lines": true,
"linewidth": 1,
"links": [],
"nullPointMode": "null",
"percentage": false,
"pointradius": 2,
"points": false,
"renderer": "flot",
"seriesOverrides": [],
"spaceLength": 10,
"stack": false,
"steppedLine": false,
"targets": [
{
"expr": "app_cpu{node_type=\"process\", cluster_id=~\"$cluster\", app_name=~\".*redisserver.*\"}",
"format": "time_series",
"intervalFactor": 1,
"legendFormat": "{{ host_name }}",
"refId": "A"
}
],
"thresholds": [],
"timeFrom": null,
"timeRegions": [],
"timeShift": null,
"title": "CPU Used",
"tooltip": {
"shared": true,
"sort": 2,
"value_type": "individual"
},
"type": "graph",
"xaxis": {
"buckets": null,
"mode": "time",
"name": null,
"show": true,
"values": []
},
"yaxes": [
{
"format": "short",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
},
{
"format": "short",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
}
],
"yaxis": {
"align": false,
"alignLevel": null
}
},
{
"aliasColors": {},
"bars": false,
"dashLength": 10,
"dashes": false,
"datasource": "Prometheus-1",
"description": "The current amount of memory redis is consuming",
"fill": 0,
"gridPos": {
"h": 9,
"w": 12,
"x": 0,
"y": 8
},
"id": 2,
"legend": {
"avg": false,
"current": false,
"max": false,
"min": false,
"show": true,
"total": false,
"values": false
},
"lines": true,
"linewidth": 1,
"links": [],
"nullPointMode": "null",
"percentage": false,
"pointradius": 2,
"points": false,
"renderer": "flot",
"seriesOverrides": [],
"spaceLength": 10,
"stack": false,
"steppedLine": false,
"targets": [
{
"expr": "redis_mem_used{cluster_id=~\"$cluster\"}",
"format": "time_series",
"intervalFactor": 1,
"legendFormat": "{{ node }}",
"refId": "A"
}
],
"thresholds": [],
"timeFrom": null,
"timeRegions": [],
"timeShift": null,
"title": "Redis Memory Used",
"tooltip": {
"shared": true,
"sort": 2,
"value_type": "individual"
},
"type": "graph",
"xaxis": {
"buckets": null,
"mode": "time",
"name": null,
"show": true,
"values": []
},
"yaxes": [
{
"format": "decbytes",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
},
{
"format": "short",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
}
],
"yaxis": {
"align": false,
"alignLevel": null
}
},
{
"aliasColors": {},
"bars": false,
"dashLength": 10,
"dashes": false,
"datasource": "Prometheus-1",
"description": "The maximum amount of memory that redis has used",
"fill": 0,
"gridPos": {
"h": 9,
"w": 12,
"x": 12,
"y": 8
},
"id": 4,
"legend": {
"avg": false,
"current": false,
"max": false,
"min": false,
"show": true,
"total": false,
"values": false
},
"lines": true,
"linewidth": 1,
"links": [],
"nullPointMode": "null",
"percentage": false,
"pointradius": 2,
"points": false,
"renderer": "flot",
"seriesOverrides": [],
"spaceLength": 10,
"stack": false,
"steppedLine": false,
"targets": [
{
"expr": "redis_mem_peak{cluster_id=~\"$cluster\"}",
"format": "time_series",
"intervalFactor": 1,
"legendFormat": "{{ node }}",
"refId": "A"
}
],
"thresholds": [],
"timeFrom": null,
"timeRegions": [],
"timeShift": null,
"title": "Redis Peak Memory",
"tooltip": {
"shared": true,
"sort": 2,
"value_type": "individual"
},
"type": "graph",
"xaxis": {
"buckets": null,
"mode": "time",
"name": null,
"show": true,
"values": []
},
"yaxes": [
{
"format": "decbytes",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
},
{
"format": "short",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
}
],
"yaxis": {
"align": false,
"alignLevel": null
}
},
{
"aliasColors": {},
"bars": false,
"dashLength": 10,
"dashes": false,
"datasource": "Prometheus-1",
"description": "The amount of memory used by the LUA engine inside of redis",
"fill": 0,
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 0,
"y": 17
},
"id": 6,
"legend": {
"avg": false,
"current": false,
"max": false,
"min": false,
"show": true,
"total": false,
"values": false
},
"lines": true,
"linewidth": 1,
"links": [],
"nullPointMode": "null",
"percentage": false,
"pointradius": 2,
"points": false,
"renderer": "flot",
"seriesOverrides": [],
"spaceLength": 10,
"stack": false,
"steppedLine": false,
"targets": [
{
"expr": "redis_mem_lua{cluster_id=~\"$cluster\"}",
"format": "time_series",
"intervalFactor": 1,
"legendFormat": "{{ node }}",
"refId": "A"
}
],
"thresholds": [],
"timeFrom": null,
"timeRegions": [],
"timeShift": null,
"title": "LUA Mem Used",
"tooltip": {
"shared": true,
"sort": 2,
"value_type": "individual"
},
"type": "graph",
"xaxis": {
"buckets": null,
"mode": "time",
"name": null,
"show": true,
"values": []
},
"yaxes": [
{
"format": "decbytes",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
},
{
"format": "short",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
}
],
"yaxis": {
"align": false,
"alignLevel": null
}
},
{
"aliasColors": {},
"bars": false,
"dashLength": 10,
"dashes": false,
"datasource": "Prometheus-1",
"description": "The amount of memory used as observed by top",
"fill": 0,
"gridPos": {
"h": 8,
"w": 12,
"x": 12,
"y": 17
},
"id": 8,
"legend": {
"avg": false,
"current": false,
"max": false,
"min": false,
"show": true,
"total": false,
"values": false
},
"lines": true,
"linewidth": 1,
"links": [],
"nullPointMode": "null",
"percentage": false,
"pointradius": 2,
"points": false,
"renderer": "flot",
"seriesOverrides": [],
"spaceLength": 10,
"stack": false,
"steppedLine": false,
"targets": [
{
"expr": "redis_mem_rss{cluster_id=~\"$cluster\"}",
"format": "time_series",
"intervalFactor": 1,
"legendFormat": "{{ node }}",
"refId": "A"
}
],
"thresholds": [],
"timeFrom": null,
"timeRegions": [],
"timeShift": null,
"title": "RSS Mem Used",
"tooltip": {
"shared": true,
"sort": 2,
"value_type": "individual"
},
"type": "graph",
"xaxis": {
"buckets": null,
"mode": "time",
"name": null,
"show": true,
"values": []
},
"yaxes": [
{
"format": "decbytes",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
},
{
"format": "short",
"label": null,
"logBase": 1,
"max": null,
"min": null,
"show": true
}
],
"yaxis": {
"align": false,
"alignLevel": null
}
}
],
"schemaVersion": 18,
"style": "dark",
"tags": [],
"templating": {
"list": [
{
"allValue": null,
"current": {},
"datasource": "Prometheus-1",
"definition": "label_values(redis_mem_used, cluster_id)",
"hide": 0,
"includeAll": true,
"label": null,
"multi": true,
"name": "cluster",
"options": [],
"query": "label_values(redis_mem_used, cluster_id)",
"refresh": 1,
"regex": "",
"skipUrlSync": false,
"sort": 0,
"tagValuesQuery": "",
"tags": [],
"tagsQuery": "",
"type": "query",
"useTags": false
}
]
},
"time": {
"from": "now-6h",
"to": "now"
},
"timepicker": {
"refresh_intervals": [
"5s",
"10s",
"30s",
"1m",
"5m",
"15m",
"30m",
"1h",
"2h",
"1d"
],
"time_options": [
"5m",
"15m",
"1h",
"6h",
"12h",
"24h",
"2d",
"7d",
"30d"
]
},
"timezone": "",
"title": "Redis",
"uid": "rfdsk32",
"folder": "Services",
"folderTitle": "Services",
"folderId": 13,
"overwrite": true
}
}
My grafana version is 6.2.0. I have used several references that say that folderId should be the controlling keyword for which folder a dashboard goes to.
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/dashboard/#create-update-dashboard

Answer 1

You have used wrong payload structure:
{
"dashboard": {
...
"folderId": 13,
"overwrite": true
}
}
Correct structure is:
{
"dashboard": {
...
},
"folderId": 13,
"overwrite": true
}