Having trouble with create_new_snapshot() function

[smartyrahul]

First of all I am really thankful for your efforts to create this very useful library.

Now, I am having trouble with create_new_snapshot api, as when I use it, instead of static data, dashboard is keep on showing new data. Now interesting thing is, this is only happening if I am exporting it to snapshot.raintank.io, if I take local snapshot, it works fine.

Here is the code I used:

ref = grafana_api.search.search_dashboards()

for r in ref:
    print(r)
    dashboard1 = grafana_api.dashboard.get_dashboard(r['uid'])
    if r['uid'] == 'gatling':
        res = grafana_api.snapshots.create_new_snapshot(name="run_id_24"+r['title'], dashboard=dashboard1['dashboard'], external=True, key="abcd")
        print(res)
        break

Versions

• Grafana: [7.2.1]
• grafana_api: [ 1.0.3]
• Authentication: [Basic]

So can you guys help me with it.
Here I am attaching one of the snapshot link.

[peekjef72]

As far as I know, Grafana API doesn't provide any method to generate a snapshot content.
The api provided by grafana, and thus this python interface only give you a way to store a "json" content in grafana database.
If you want to build snapshot, you have to retrieve the dashboard and then get the data from the datasource and store the result in a valid format in JSON, and only then you can use the API to store the result.
You may have a look at the project https://github.com/peekjef72/grafana-snapshots-tool (still beta).
Feel free to give me some feebacks about it or if you have troubles in the installation part: I've produced some pull requests on grafana-api that is requirered for granafa-snapshoots-tool to work.