Grafana HTTP request through python to query data-source

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I am using Grafana official documentation as reference to query a data source via python. Should queries be sent as payload or params when using Grafana

/api/ds/query

I have come up the following Python code but it returns me “{‘message’: ‘id is invalid’}”.

headers = {"Accept": "application/json",
           "Content-Type": "application/json",
           "X-Grafana-Org-Id": "<org-id>",
           "Authorization": "Bearer <your token here>"
           }

api_url = f"{grafana_url}/api/ds/query"
payload = {
    "queries": [
        {
            "refId": "A",
            "datasource": {
                "uid": "<your data-source uid here>"
            },
            "format": "table",
        }
    ],
    "from": "now-1y",
    "to": "now"
}
response = requests.post(api_url, json=payload, headers=headers,verify = False)
response.json()

I know the data-source uid I am using is correct because I am able to make calls through following api:

/api/datasources/uid/:uid

This doesn’t makes sense to me.

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Welcome to forum

Why are you querying the datasource on top of grafana, why not query it directly and bypass grafana?

3

Thankyou!

The task requires me to do data-validation on Grafana as well as bypass it and do data-validation on the connected datasource.
So I am doing both. .

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