I have written API calls according to Grafana's documentation (https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/http_api/dashboard/#gets-the-home-dashboard) but I always end up with a response of 401. For example, just to get a basic GET response for testing with the path /api/dashboards/home, I have done the following: On the Grafana settings, I have added an api key and set it to admin. I have tried calling the api using curl, Insomnia (like Postman) and via Python. (Replaced api key and grafana url values) curl: curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer <apikey>" https://<grafanaurl>/api/dashboards/home response: curl: (6) Could not resolve host: GET <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>401 Unauthorized</title> </head><body> <h1>Unauthorized</h1> <p>This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.</p> </body></html> python: import json import requests server= "https:<grafanaurl>" url = server + "/api/dashboards/home" headers = { "Authorization": "Bearer <apikey>", "Accept": "application/json", "Content-Type": "application/json" } r = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, verify=False) print(r) # print(r.json()) response: <Response [401]> Insomnia gives the same error message as curl. Am I doing something wrong? My organization uses LDAP authentication to automatically log us in to Grafana - could this be a reason why this doesn't work? If so, how would I work with this? I want to be able to call Grafana apis from within an application. Continue reading...
