grafana/docs/sources/http_api/dashboard_versions.md
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Update dashboard_versions.md (#38812)
getting a version by the id of the version doesn't work
you need to use the number of the version
2021-10-21 13:19:58 +02:00

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title = "Dashboard Versions HTTP API "
description = "Grafana Dashboard Versions HTTP API"
keywords = ["grafana", "http", "documentation", "api", "dashboard", "versions"]
aliases = ["/docs/grafana/latest/http_api/dashboardversions/"]
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# Dashboard Versions
## Get all dashboard versions
Query parameters:
- **limit** - Maximum number of results to return
- **start** - Version to start from when returning queries
`GET /api/dashboards/id/:dashboardId/versions`
Gets all existing dashboard versions for the dashboard with the given `dashboardId`.
**Example request for getting all dashboard versions**:
```http
GET /api/dashboards/id/1/versions?limit=2?start=0 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk
```
**Example Response**
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 428
```
Status Codes:
- **200** - Ok
- **400** - Errors
- **401** - Unauthorized
- **404** - Dashboard version not found
## Get dashboard version
`GET /api/dashboards/id/:dashboardId/versions/:id`
Get the dashboard version with the given version, for the dashboard with the given id.
**Example request for getting a dashboard version**:
```http
GET /api/dashboards/id/1/versions/1 HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk
```
**Example response**:
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 1300
```
Status Codes:
- **200** - Ok
- **401** - Unauthorized
- **404** - Dashboard version not found
## Restore dashboard
`POST /api/dashboards/id/:dashboardId/restore`
Restores a dashboard to a given dashboard version.
**Example request for restoring a dashboard version**:
```http
POST /api/dashboards/id/1/restore
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk
{
"version": 1
}
```
JSON body schema:
- **version** - The dashboard version to restore to
**Example response**:
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 67
```
JSON response body schema:
- **slug** - the URL friendly slug of the dashboard's title
- **status** - whether the restoration was successful or not
- **version** - the new dashboard version, following the restoration
Status codes:
- **200** - OK
- **401** - Unauthorized
- **404** - Not found (dashboard not found or dashboard version not found)
- **500** - Internal server error (indicates issue retrieving dashboard tags from database)
**Example error response**
```http
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 46
```
JSON response body schema:
- **message** - Message explaining the reason for the request failure.
## Compare dashboard versions
`POST /api/dashboards/calculate-diff`
Compares two dashboard versions by calculating the JSON diff of them.
**Example request**:
```http
POST /api/dashboards/calculate-diff HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk
```
JSON body schema:
- **base** - an object representing the base dashboard version
- **new** - an object representing the new dashboard version
- **diffType** - the type of diff to return. Can be "json" or "basic".
**Example response (JSON diff)**:
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
```
The response is a textual representation of the diff, with the dashboard values being in JSON, similar to the diffs seen on sites like GitHub or GitLab.
Status Codes:
- **200** - Ok
- **400** - Bad request (invalid JSON sent)
- **401** - Unauthorized
- **404** - Not found
**Example response (basic diff)**:
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
```
The response here is a summary of the changes, derived from the diff between the two JSON objects.
Status Codes:
- **200** - OK
- **400** - Bad request (invalid JSON sent)
- **401** - Unauthorized
- **404** - Not found