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Hi, I am trying to programmatically create experim...

acoustic-morning-65689

03/27/2025, 8:56 PM

Hi, I am trying to programmatically create experiments and have successfully done so using the REST API. However, when I view my published experiment dashboard, it shows

Experiment snapshot error

. This goes away if I manually push the

Update

button on the experiment. Is there a way to get this to update regularly or automatically? I configured my experiments to update automatically every 30 seconds using a crontab setting. But it doesn't update the way that I expected. Is there any way to check that the experiment update is actually working? EDIT: SOLVED -- See thread

acoustic-morning-65689

03/27/2025, 9:28 PM

Looks like I need access to the

/experiments/:id/snapshot

API. I tried hitting it from my

admin

role API key, but I get a

401 jwt malformed

error.

acoustic-morning-65689

03/27/2025, 11:45 PM

Maybe this will work 🤔 https://docs.growthbook.io/api/#tag/experiments/operation/postExperimentSnapshot

acoustic-morning-65689

03/28/2025, 12:04 AM

This worked!

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curl -v -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer [obfuscated]" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"triggeredBy": "manual"}' \
  <https://api.growthbook.io/api/v1/experiments/:id/snapshot>

fresh-football-47124

03/28/2025, 8:23 AM

cool

fresh-football-47124

03/28/2025, 8:23 AM

it should automatically update too when the cron job kicks in

acoustic-morning-65689

03/28/2025, 2:26 PM

I set the cron job to run every 30s, but it didn't seem to work. Is there any audit information for the cron job?

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fresh-football-47124

05/20/2025, 11:20 PM

30sec if far too short

fresh-football-47124

05/20/2025, 11:20 PM

the errors will be in the docker logs

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