# How can I show data from my personal API to a gauge dashboard without a DB?

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**Tags:** api\
**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-can-i-show-data-from-my-personal-api-to-a-gauge-dashboard-without-a-db/25401 "2020-01-31T10:56:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![malamgir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/malamgir/32/9479_2.png) [@malamgir](https://community.grafana.com/u/malamgir)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/how-can-i-show-data-from-my-personal-api-to-a-gauge-dashboard-without-a-db/25401/2 "2020-01-31T13:46:19Z")

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> [@Grafana simplejson dashboard](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-simplejson-dashboard/5627/4):
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> Hi, I’m going to try to explain the steps involved using the SimpleJSON datasource plugin using the fake-simple-json-datasource linked above. Start fake-simple-json-datasource (nodejs required) git clone https://github.com/bergquist/fake-simple-json-datasource cd fake-simple-json-datasource npm install node index.js Configure a new Simple JSON datasource in Grafana using the url of your custom built REST API, for example [http://localhost:3333](http://localhost:3333) which is default port that the fake-simple-js…

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