Scheduling Snapshots

[nexusguy59]

Hello Guys/Ladies,

I have been researching for a bit on how to schedule a snapshot however, I haven’t found anything concrete on the subject. So I will try my best to explain. We need to be able to snapshot data at certain times of the year or through out the year. We would like to be able to schedule this to happen automagically. Is this possible? I think I already know the answer, Just wanted to pose the question to confirm my suspicion.

Thanks for your time

[mefraimsson]

Save snapshot to grafana database

Creating a snapshot via the api is unfortunately very hard to use externally. The problem is that the snapshot data is saved in the dashboard json on the Grafana frontend and then the dashboard json with the embedded snapshot data is sent to the api. Basically, you need the Grafana frontend to generate a snapshot. The API just saves the result. It is on our TODO list to make a better API for snapshotting that uses headless chrome to be able to do a server side render of a panel. See this issue…