# Grafana Credential Error invalid API key

**URL:** <https://community.n8n.io/t/grafana-credential-error-invalid-api-key/21138>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** credentials, grafana\
**Created:** [December 25, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/grafana-credential-error-invalid-api-key/21138 "2022-12-25T13:49:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![asuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@asuhan](https://community.n8n.io/u/asuhan)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 1:49pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/grafana-credential-error-invalid-api-key/21138/1 "2022-12-25T13:49:41Z")

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## Please help - I create authorization in Grafana as described in the instructions [docs.n8n](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/credentials/grafana/?utm_source=n8n_app&utm_medium=left_nav_menu&utm_campaign=create_new_credentials_modal), but the authorization is created with an error.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you.  
Regards, Aleksandr.

 ![grafana_2](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/b/6/b6ab7c61f35e02b3a8e4cece6fc5c59e4ace87b2.png)  
 ![grafana_1](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/6/3/639c53c9eb467ee0556845cdb91f52c582d7737e.png)

## Information on your n8n setup

- **n8n version:** Version 0.209.2
- \*\*Database you’re using (default: SQLite):\*\*default
- **Running n8n with the execution process [own(default), main]:** main
- **Running n8n via [Docker, npm, n8n.cloud, desktop app]:** Docker

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**Author:** ![MutedJam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/mutedjam/32/70851_2.png) [@MutedJam](https://community.n8n.io/u/MutedJam)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 10:45am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/grafana-credential-error-invalid-api-key/21138/2 "2022-12-28T10:45:33Z")

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Hi @asuhan, I am sorry to hear you are having trouble. I just tried out creating fresh credentials for a Grafana-hosted instance on n8n@0.209.2 running via. This worked as expected for me:

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/8/3/8390e38edcd0d831c0be6fcd6658360275d7aecf.png)

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/b/d/bd5687d43e763f17c05ec08672eb39cc2e1bf7c4.png)

So it seems your API key is indeed invalid as suggested by the error message coming from Grafana in your screenshot.

Did you possibly add any white spaces when entering it or could it have expired?

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**Author:** ![asuhan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@asuhan](https://community.n8n.io/u/asuhan)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/grafana-credential-error-invalid-api-key/21138/3 "2022-12-28T12:22:34Z")

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Good afternoon, MutedJam. Thank you. It turned out that I had to connect a service account and enter the token from it.

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**Author:** ![MutedJam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/mutedjam/32/70851_2.png) [@MutedJam](https://community.n8n.io/u/MutedJam)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/grafana-credential-error-invalid-api-key/21138/4 "2022-12-28T12:57:17Z")

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Awesome, glad to hear you managed to sort it out. Thanks so much for confirming!

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/system/32/36532_2.png) [@system](https://community.n8n.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/grafana-credential-error-invalid-api-key/21138/5 "2023-01-04T12:58:14Z")

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