Force the refresh of a dashboard from a external source using /api/live/ws

Grafana Dashboards
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  • Grafana OSS 12.0.1

  • What are you trying to achieve?

    • Force the refresh of a dashboard from a external source using /api/live/ws

  • How are you trying to achieve it?

    • Using a nodejs code to push a order to dashboard

  • What happened?

    • Nothing.

  • What did you expect to happen?

    • a silent refresh of the dashboard

  • Can you copy/paste the configuration(s) that you are having problems with?

  * const ws = new WebSocket(grafanaUrl, {

      headers: {

        Authorization: \`Bearer ${apiToken}\`

      },

      rejectUnauthorized: false // ⚠️ seulement pour debug

    });

    

    ws.on('open', () => {

      console.log('✅ Connected to Grafana Live WebSocket');

    

      // Auth message (optional depending on Grafana version)

      const authMsg = {

        type: 'auth',

        payload: { Authorization: \`Bearer ${apiToken}\` }

      };

      ws.send(JSON.stringify(authMsg));

const refreshMsg = {

    action: 'dashboard-refresh',

    payload: {

      dashboardUid: dashboardUid 

    }

  };

  ws.send(JSON.stringify(refreshMsg));

  console.log(\`🔄 Refresh event sent for dashboard UID: ${dashboardUid}\`);

});
ws.on('message', (data) => {

console.log('📩 Message from Grafana:', data.toString());});

  • Did you receive any errors in the Grafana UI or in related logs? If so, please tell us exactly what they were.

    • in log :
logger=context userId=11 orgId=1 uname=sa-1-push-agent t=2025-11-15T18:31:15.215186654+01:00 level=info msg=“Request Completed” method=GET path=/api/live/ws status=-1 remote_addr=10.63.33.110 time_ms=18 duration=18.269947ms size=0 referer= handler=/api/live/ws status_source=server

  • Did you follow any online instructions? If so, what is the URL?

    • /api/live documentation