# Instead of hosting grafana on kubernetes, Can grafana itself has their hosted environment, So we could directly make some API calls and generate dashboards **URL:** \ **Category:** Configuration\ **Tags:** query-help, plugins, api\ **Created:** [January 3, 2023, 6:40am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960 "2023-01-03T06:40:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phaneendharreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@phaneendharreddy](https://community.grafana.com/u/phaneendharreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 6:40am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960/1 "2023-01-03T06:40:00Z")
- What Grafana version and what operating system are you using? latest-version and ubuntu - **What** are you trying to achieve? With authorisation trying to create dashboards but currently installed locally to make API calls, will grafana host the same. So, I could just make some API calls directly to the host and perform CRUD operations on users, dashboards, oragnizations etc… ---
**Author:** ![usman.ahmad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/usman.ahmad/32/29706_2.png) [@usman.ahmad](https://community.grafana.com/u/usman.ahmad)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960/2 "2023-01-03T17:52:56Z")
Hi @phaneendharreddy, Welcome to the :grafana: community support forums !! I am not sure if I understand your question completely but I get the idea, that you can do like this; Use[Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/products/cloud/) (either can use the free trial version for testing or the paid one). Call the APIs from your local machine to the Grafana cloud and monitor your users, dashboard etc. Let us know if this answer helps you. ---
**Author:** ![phaneendharreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@phaneendharreddy](https://community.grafana.com/u/phaneendharreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 4:01am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960/4 "2023-01-04T04:01:51Z")
Hi @usman.ahmad Can Grafana itself manage our dashboards, users, orgs etc… with APIs ? I don’t want to deploy grafana on any hosting service to use APIs. If so, Can you please share me the BASE\_URL to authenticate and create dashboards ? ---
**Author:** ![usamaaltaf420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b782af/32.png) [@usamaaltaf420](https://community.grafana.com/u/usamaaltaf420)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960/5 "2023-01-04T09:02:44Z")
Grafana is an open-source data visualization and monitoring platform that allows you to create, explore, and share dashboards. While Grafana does not provide hosting services, it can be installed on your own hosting infrastructure, such as a server or virtual machine, or on a cloud platform like AWS, GCP, or Azure. ---
**Author:** ![usman.ahmad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/usman.ahmad/32/29706_2.png) [@usman.ahmad](https://community.grafana.com/u/usman.ahmad)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 9:31am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960/6 "2023-01-04T09:31:21Z")
> [@phaneendharreddy](#): > > Can Grafana itself manage our dashboards, users, orgs etc… with APIs ? Grafana does provide [HTTP API](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYROmc1X-90) to manage almost every component. But it cannot do all such operations automatically as you need to run such operations yourself or create some scripts (e.g. bash, python) to allow some normal tasks e.g. creating, deleting users etc. > [@phaneendharreddy](#): > > I don’t want to deploy grafana on any hosting service to use APIs. If so, Can you please share me the BASE\_URL to authenticate and create dashboards ? If you do not want to deploy Grafana on your own then the best possible option is to use the [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/pricing/) which is a self-managed service (which is easy to update or rollback with a paid support feature). OR as an alternative can use [AWS-managed Grafan](https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/?nc=sn&loc=1) (if required for your business). ---
**Author:** ![phaneendharreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@phaneendharreddy](https://community.grafana.com/u/phaneendharreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960/7 "2023-01-04T15:03:28Z")
Thanks @usman.ahmad Can you please specify the the base URL for the API on Grafana Cloud ? ---
**Author:** ![rujoesmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rujoesmith](https://community.grafana.com/u/rujoesmith)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 2:06am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/instead-of-hosting-grafana-on-kubernetes-can-grafana-itself-has-their-hosted-environment-so-we-could-directly-make-some-api-calls-and-generate-dashboards/78960/8 "2023-11-16T02:06:48Z")
looking for this too