Cloudwatch datasource configured via API

Grafana
1

Hi,
I’m trying to configure a CloudWatch datasource via the API with a bash script that contains:

curl -s -X POST --header "Content-Type:application/json" \
http://${GRAFANA_USER}:${GRAFANA_PASS}@${GRAFANA_HOST}/api/datasources \
--data-binary @- <<EOF

{
  "name": "test_aws",
  "access": "proxy",
  "type": "cloudwatch",
  "defaultRegion": "eu-west-1"
}
EOF

The code above works but the “Default Region” section in the GUI is always blank and hence the datasource does not work. I couldn’t find any examples of how this should be configured via the API. I’d be grateful for any pointers…

2

The documentation is not great for this. You have to pass the custom Cloudwatch data in the jsonData property. Something like this:

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I’ll try and update the documentation to be more detailed.