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  1. Welcome to Telemetry 👋
  2. Quick start guide
  3. Wide events vs. metrics
  4. Ingesting data
    1. Better Stack collector
    2. OpenTelemetry
    3. Vector
    4. Ingesting via HTTP API
    5. Ingesting metrics
    6. Ingesting logs
    7. Migrating to Better Stack
  5. Using the product
    1. AI SRE ↗
    2. MCP server ↗
    3. Transforming ingested data
    4. Querying data
    5. Tracing
    6. Grafana
    7. Alerts
  6. Telemetry API
    1. Getting an API token
    2. Sources & collectors
    3. Dashboards
      1. Dashboards API
      2. Charts API
      3. Chart comments API
      4. Dashboard sections API
        1. List all sections GET
        2. Get a single section GET
        3. Create a section POST
        4. Update a section PATCH
        5. Remove a section DELETE
      5. Dashboard alerts API
      6. Dashboard groups API
    4. Explorations
    5. Alerts API
    6. Connections API
    7. Query API ↗
    8. Usage API ↗
  7. Alternative to
    1. Lightstep

Get a single dashboard section

Retrieves a single section by its ID from a specific dashboard.

GET https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboards/{dashboard_id}/sections/{id}

URL parameters

dashboard_id
required integer

The unique identifier of the dashboard.

id
required integer

The unique identifier of the section.

Headers

Authorization
required string

Bearer $TOKEN

200

Returns the section.

Response body

{
  "data": {
    "id": "890",
    "type": "section",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "Key Metrics",
      "y": 0,
      "collapsed": false,
      "explanation": null
    }
  }
}
404

The specified dashboard or section was not found.

Response attributes

id
string

The ID of the section.

type
string

Always section.

attributes.name
string or null

The section's title, or null when it has none.

attributes.y
integer

The section's vertical position on the dashboard grid, counted from 0 at the top.

attributes.collapsed
boolean

Whether the section is collapsed.

attributes.explanation
string or null

An explanation of the section, or null when not set.

Example request

cURL
curl --request GET \
     --url "https://telemetry.betterstack.com/api/v2/dashboards/1234/sections/890" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"


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