Sending Graphite Metrics to Grafana Cloud with Python

graphite-format.py

import requests
import json

# Go to "My Account" (grafana.com/orgs/your-organization),
# then under your Grafana stack, click the "Details" button under Graphite.
# Under the section titled "Using Grafana with Grafana Cloud Graphite" you will see
# your username. You can also generate an API key here, or do so in the account
# overview side navigation.

USER_ID = '123456'
API_KEY = 'your-api-key-123-!!!'

body = [
    {
        "name": "test.metric",
        "interval": 10,
        "value": 12.345,
        "tags": ["foo=bar", "source=grafana_cloud_docs"],
        "time": 1534685580
    },
    {
        "name": "test.metric",
        "interval": 10,
        "value": 12.345,
        "tags": ["foo=baz", "source=grafana_cloud_docs"],
        "time": 1534685590
    }
]

# Endpoint is on the same page as the userid / API Key
response = requests.post('https://[...].grafana.net/graphite/metrics', 
                         headers = {
                           'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                           'Authorization': f'Bearer {USER_ID}:{API_KEY}'
                         },
                         data = str(json.dumps(body))
)

data = response.json()

print(data)