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Authentication options for the HTTP API
You can authenticate HTTP API requests using basic authentication, a service account token, or a session cookie (acquired via regular login or OAuth).
Basic auth
If basic auth is enabled (it is enabled by default), then you can authenticate your HTTP request via standard basic auth. Basic auth will also authenticate LDAP users.
curl example:
curl http://admin:admin@localhost:3000/api/org
{"id":1,"name":"Main Org."}
Service account token
To create a service account token, click on Administration in the left-side menu, click Users and access, then Service Accounts. For more information on how to use service account tokens, refer to the Service Accounts documentation.
You use the token in all requests in the Authorization
header, like this:
Example:
GET http://your.grafana.com/api/dashboards/db/mydash HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Bearer eyJrIjoiT0tTcG1pUlY2RnVKZTFVaDFsNFZXdE9ZWmNrMkZYbk
The Authorization
header value should be Bearer <YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN>
.