Examples of working with the gRPC API
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Updated at October 29, 2025
The examples below use grpcurl.
To use the examples, authenticate with the API and clone the cloudapi repository.
Request examples
List
Getting a list of dashboards in a folder. In the folder_id field, specify the ID of the folder you want to get a list of dashboards for.
grpcurl -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>" \
-d '{"folder_id": "<folder_ID>"}' \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
-proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/monitoring/v3/dashboard_service.proto \
monitoring.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 yandex.cloud.monitoring.v3.DashboardService.List
Get
Getting information about a dashboard. In the dashboard_id field, specify the ID of the dashboard you want to get information about.
grpcurl -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>" \
-d '{"dashboard_id": "<dashboard_ID>"}' \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
-proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/monitoring/v3/dashboard_service.proto \
monitoring.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 yandex.cloud.monitoring.v3.DashboardService.Get
Create
Creating a dashboard:
grpcurl -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>" \
-d @ \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
-proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/monitoring/v3/dashboard_service.proto \
monitoring.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 yandex.cloud.monitoring.v3.DashboardService.Create <payload.json
Example of payload.json
In the folderId field, specify the ID of the folder where you want to create a dashboard.
{
"folderId": "<folder_ID>",
"name": "dashboard-local",
"description": "Dashboard description",
"title": "Example title",
"labels": {
"label1": "value1"
},
"widgets": [
{
"position": {
"y": "8",
"w": "36",
"h": "8"
},
"chart": {
"id": "61jjd****",
"queries": {
"targets": [
{
"query": "disk_flush_ops_failed{folderId=<folder_ID>, service=compute}"
}
],
"downsampling": {
}
},
"visualizationSettings": {
"interpolate": "INTERPOLATE_LINEAR",
"colorSchemeSettings": {
"automatic": {
}
},
"yaxisSettings": {
"left": {
"type": "YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR",
"min": "0",
"max": "5",
"unitFormat": "UNIT_NONE",
"precision": "0"
},
"right": {
"type": "YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR",
"unitFormat": "UNIT_NONE",
"precision": "0"
}
}
},
"seriesOverrides": [
{
"targetIndex": "0",
"settings": {
"yaxisPosition": "YAXIS_POSITION_LEFT"
}
}
],
"nameHidingSettings": {
},
"title": "Example"
}
}
],
"parametrization": {
}
}
Response example
{
"id": "21526195-7cf4-45ce-895b-3fbf********",
"description": "Operation synchronous",
"createdAt": "2022-12-13T12:38:48.239Z",
"modifiedAt": "2022-12-13T12:38:48.239Z",
"done": true,
"response": {"@type":"type.googleapis.com/yandex.cloud.monitoring.v3.Dashboard","createdAt":"2022-12-13T12:38:48.151Z","createdBy":"aje2kcbb10f2********","description":"Dashboard description","etag":"0","folderId":"b1gc1t4cb638********","id":"fbee8i4vn87s********","labels":{"label1":"value1"},"modifiedAt":"2022-12-13T12:38:48.151Z","modifiedBy":"aje2kcbb10f2********","name":"dashboard-local","parametrization":{},"title":"Example title","widgets":[{"position":{"y":"8","w":"36","h":"8"},"chart":{"id":"61jjd238n","queries":{"targets":[{"query":"disk_flush_ops_failed{folderId=b1gc1t4cb638********, service=compute}"}],"downsampling":{}},"visualizationSettings":{"interpolate":"INTERPOLATE_LINEAR","colorSchemeSettings":{"automatic":{}},"yaxisSettings":{"left":{"type":"YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR","min":"0","max":"5","unitFormat":"UNIT_NONE","precision":"0"},"right":{"type":"YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR","unitFormat":"UNIT_NONE","precision":"0"}}},"seriesOverrides":[{"targetIndex":"0","settings":{"yaxisPosition":"YAXIS_POSITION_LEFT"}}],"nameHidingSettings":{},"title":"Example"}}]}
}
Update
Updating a dashboard:
grpcurl -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>" \
-d @ \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
-proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/monitoring/v3/dashboard_service.proto \
monitoring.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 yandex.cloud.monitoring.v3.DashboardService.Update <payload.json
Example of payload.json
In the dashboard_id field, specify the ID of the dashboard you want to update. In the folderId field, specify the ID of the folder with the dashboard.
{
"dashboard_id" : "<dashboard_ID>",
"name": "dashboard-local",
"description": "New dashboard description",
"title": "Example title",
"labels": {
"label1": "value2"
},
"widgets": [
{
"position": {
"y": "8",
"w": "36",
"h": "8"
},
"chart": {
"id": "61jjd****",
"queries": {
"targets": [
{
"query": "disk_flush_ops_failed{folderId=<folder_ID>, service=compute}"
}
],
"downsampling": {
}
},
"visualizationSettings": {
"interpolate": "INTERPOLATE_LINEAR",
"colorSchemeSettings": {
"automatic": {
}
},
"yaxisSettings": {
"left": {
"type": "YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR",
"min": "0",
"max": "5",
"unitFormat": "UNIT_NONE",
"precision": "0"
},
"right": {
"type": "YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR",
"unitFormat": "UNIT_NONE",
"precision": "0"
}
}
},
"seriesOverrides": [
{
"targetIndex": "0",
"settings": {
"yaxisPosition": "YAXIS_POSITION_LEFT"
}
}
],
"nameHidingSettings": {
},
"title": "Example"
}
}
],
"parametrization": {
}
}
Response example
{
"id": "7cc53fff-8a4c-4a5c-b11e-326b********",
"description": "Operation synchronous",
"createdAt": "2022-12-13T12:42:39.444Z",
"modifiedAt": "2022-12-13T12:42:39.444Z",
"done": true,
"response": {"@type":"type.googleapis.com/yandex.cloud.monitoring.v3.Dashboard","createdAt":"2022-12-13T12:38:48.151Z","createdBy":"aje2kcbb10f2********","description":"New dashboard description","etag":"1","folderId":"b1gc1t4cb638********","id":"fbee8i4vn87s********","labels":{"label1":"value2"},"modifiedAt":"2022-12-13T12:42:39.293Z","modifiedBy":"aje2kcbb10f2********","name":"dashboard-local","parametrization":{},"title":"Example title","widgets":[{"position":{"y":"8","w":"36","h":"8"},"chart":{"id":"61jjd238n","queries":{"targets":[{"query":"disk_flush_ops_failed{folderId=b1gc1t4cb638********, service=compute}"}],"downsampling":{}},"visualizationSettings":{"interpolate":"INTERPOLATE_LINEAR","colorSchemeSettings":{"automatic":{}},"yaxisSettings":{"left":{"type":"YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR","min":"0","max":"5","unitFormat":"UNIT_NONE","precision":"0"},"right":{"type":"YAXIS_TYPE_LINEAR","unitFormat":"UNIT_NONE","precision":"0"}}},"seriesOverrides":[{"targetIndex":"0","settings":{"yaxisPosition":"YAXIS_POSITION_LEFT"}}],"nameHidingSettings":{},"title":"Example"}}]}
}
Delete
Deleting a dashboard. In the dashboard_id field, specify the ID of the dashboard you want to delete.
grpcurl -rpc-header "Authorization: Bearer <IAM_token>" \
-d '{"dashboard_id": "<dashboard_ID>", "etag": "1"}' \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/ \
-import-path ~/cloudapi/third_party/googleapis/ \
-proto ~/cloudapi/yandex/cloud/monitoring/v3/dashboard_service.proto \
monitoring.api.cloud.yandex.net:443 yandex.cloud.monitoring.v3.DashboardService.Delete
Example of an error response
{
"id": "836b0169-b8c7-46bc-9bbd-2c7d********",
"description": "Operation synchronous",
"createdAt": "1970-06-21T01:39:24.338616078Z",
"modifiedAt": "1970-06-21T01:39:24.338637614Z",
"done": true,
"error": {
"code": 6,
"message": "ALREADY_EXISTS: dashboard 'monr2knetn2d********' with etag '1' is out of date"
}
}
Example of a successful response
{
"id": "b0c14ed1-a11f-4791-8444-9018********",
"description": "Operation synchronous",
"createdAt": "1971-04-10T09:43:35.513978582Z",
"modifiedAt": "1971-04-10T09:43:35.513983176Z",
"done": true,
"response": {
"@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.protobuf.Empty",
"value": {
}
}
}