SigNoz/signoz · error

errors.CodeInvalidInput

errors.CodeInvalidInput

Error message

id is not a valid uuid

What it means

NewStorableDashboardFromDashboard converts a Dashboard into its storable form by parsing dashboard.ID with valuer.NewUUID. If the ID is not a parseable UUID (empty string, random string, malformed), the UUID parse fails and this invalid-input error is returned.

Source

Thrown at pkg/types/dashboardtypes/dashboard.go:78

	UpdatableDashboard = StorableDashboardData

	PostableDashboard = StorableDashboardData

	ListableDashboard []*GettableDashboard
)

// readString reads a string field from the untyped data blob, yielding "" when
// the key is absent, null, or not a string.
func (d StorableDashboardData) readString(key string) string {
	s, _ := d[key].(string)
	return s
}

func NewStorableDashboardFromDashboard(dashboard *Dashboard) (*StorableDashboard, error) {
	dashboardID, err := valuer.NewUUID(dashboard.ID)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, errors.TypeInvalidInput, errors.CodeInvalidInput, "id is not a valid uuid")
	}

	if !dashboard.Source.IsValid() {
		return nil, errors.Newf(errors.TypeInvalidInput, ErrCodeDashboardInvalidSource, "invalid dashboard source %q, must be one of user, system, integration", dashboard.Source.StringValue())
	}

	return &StorableDashboard{
		Identifiable: types.Identifiable{
			ID: dashboardID,
		},
		TimeAuditable: types.TimeAuditable{
			CreatedAt: dashboard.CreatedAt,
			UpdatedAt: dashboard.UpdatedAt,
		},
		UserAuditable: types.UserAuditable{
			CreatedBy: dashboard.CreatedBy,
			UpdatedBy: dashboard.UpdatedBy,
		},

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Solutions

1. Omit/empty the ID for Create so a UUID is generated server-side, and pass the returned UUID on Update
2. Generate a proper UUID (github.com/google/uuid.New()) client-side if you must supply an ID
3. Validate the ID format before calling the API

Example fix

// before
dashboard.ID = "my-cool-dashboard"

// after
import "github.com/google/uuid"
dashboard.ID = uuid.New().String()

import (
  "github.com/google/uuid"
)

func validDashboardID(id string) bool {
    if id == "" { return true } // server assigns on create
    _, err := uuid.Parse(id)
    return err == nil
}

func isUUID(s string) bool {
    if s == "" { return false }
    _, err := uuid.Parse(s)
    return err == nil
}

sd, err := NewStorableDashboardFromDashboard(d)
if err != nil && strings.Contains(err.Error(), "id is not a valid uuid") {
    d.ID = uuid.New().String()
    sd, err = NewStorableDashboardFromDashboard(d)
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling Create/Update/LockUnlock with dashboard.ID set to a non-UUID string such as "my-dashboard" or an empty string where a UUID is required.

Common situations: Clients generating their own slug-style IDs instead of server-assigned UUIDs; frontend forms not clearing an ID field on clone/duplicate flows; test fixtures with placeholder IDs like "test-1".

Related errors

• ErrCodePublicDashboardInvalidInput
• invalid_input
• dashboard_invalid_patch
• public_dashboard_invalid_input
• invalid org id: %w

AI-assisted analysis of SigNoz/signoz@5069bf80b0 (2026-08-28). Data as JSON: /api/errors/f14b3220e1e753ea. Report an issue: GitHub.