Automated Grafana Snapshots using Python

Grafana-snapshot.py

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

from requests import get, post

GRAFANA_DATE_FORMAT = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
GRAFANA_CREDS = ('user', 'password')

dashboardResponse = get('https://grafana.host/api/dashboards/a/dashboard', auth = GRAFANA_CREDS)

dashboard = dashboardResponse.json()['dashboard']
dashboardTimeRange = dashboard['time']

# the datetime objects below can be modified to specify any 'to' and 'from' date you want
timeNow = datetime.utcnow()
timeThirtyMinutesAgo = timeNow - timedelta(minutes = 30)
timeNowAsGrafanaString = timeNow.strftime(GRAFANA_DATE_FORMAT)

dashboardTimeRange['to'] = timeNowAsGrafanaString
dashboardTimeRange['from'] = timeThirtyMinutesAgo.strftime(GRAFANA_DATE_FORMAT)

snapshotRequest = {
    'name': 'python dashboard snapshot (%s)' % timeNowAsGrafanaString,
    'dashboard': dashboard
}

post('https://grafana.host/api/snapshots', json = snapshotRequest, auth = GRAFANA_CREDS)

Pipfile

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

[packages]
requests = "*"

[dev-packages]

[requires]
python_version = "3.6"