Creating Datasource via API in Powershell is Failing

Grafana Configuration
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Hello!

I’m brand new to Grafana as of this week (as well as interacting with an API in any meaningful manner), and I’m struggling a bit with getting a datasource into my Grafana instance via your API. I was able to sus out the format behind getting a Dashboard created through the API, but in trying to do the same thing for a Datasource, I’m coming up short.

I get hit with the following error in Powershell:

Invoke-RestMethod : [{"fieldNames":["Name"],"classification":"RequiredError","message":"Required"},{"fieldNames":["Type"],"classification":"RequiredError","message":"Required"},{"fieldNames":["Access"],"classificat
ion":"RequiredError","message":"Required"}]

In reading a topic from the Github page, the only real solution that was working for people was when they were missing “application/json” as their content-type, but I’ve got that already. Below is my powershell code, can anyone advise?

$header = @{"Authorization" = "Bearer apikey="}
$createDatasourceUri = "http://localhost:3000/api/datasources"
$createDatasourcejson = @'
{
    "datasource": {
        "name": "prometheusApiTest",
        "type": "prometheus",
        "url": "http://localhost:9090",
        "access": "proxy",
        "basicAuth": false,
        "isDefault": true
    },
    "message": "creating test datasource from api call"
}
'@

$datasourceParameters = @{
    Method = "POST"
    URI = $createDatasourceUri
    Body = $createDatasourcejson
    Headers = $header
    ContentType = "application/json"
}

Invoke-RestMethod @datasourceParameters

I’m not sure what’s wrong, as this block of code is almost character-for-character the same as the Dashboard create, albeit with a different json payload. Any advice would be really appreciated!

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I’m a dummy, is the basic answer. There is no need to specify the datasource element in the json payload, I read the docs wrong. My b!