---
title: "Restore a dashboard to a given dashboard version using UID."
method: POST
path: "/dashboards/uid/{uid}/restore"
tags: ["dashboards", "versions"]
deprecated: true
---

# Restore a dashboard to a given dashboard version using UID.

`POST /dashboards/uid/{uid}/restore`

## Request

- Base URL: `/api` (relative, and the document’s source URL is not known)
- URL: `/api/dashboards/uid/{uid}/restore`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - API key in header `Authorization`

> **Deprecated.**

This API will be removed when /apis/dashboard.grafana.app/v1 is released.
You can restore a dashboard by reading it from history, then creating it again.

## Path parameters

- `uid` string, required

## Request body

- RestoreDashboardVersionCommand
  - `version` integer

## Response `200`

(empty)

- object
  - `folderUid` string: FolderUID The unique identifier (uid) of the folder the dashboard belongs to.
  - `id` integer, required: ID The unique identifier (id) of the created/updated dashboard.
  - `status` string, required: Status status of the response.
  - `title` string, required: Slug The slug of the dashboard.
  - `uid` string, required: UID The unique identifier (uid) of the created/updated dashboard.
  - `url` string, required: URL The relative URL for accessing the created/updated dashboard.
  - `version` integer, required: Version The version of the dashboard.

## Other responses

- `400`: BadRequestError is returned when the request is invalid and it cannot be processed.
- `401`: UnauthorizedError is returned when the request is not authenticated.
- `403`: ForbiddenError is returned if the user/token has insufficient permissions to access the requested resource.
- `404`: NotFoundError is returned when the requested resource was not found.
- `500`: InternalServerError is a general error indicating something went wrong internally.

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