From 859cc92da70d5e37acc736031a325fc1479b772e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Todd Treece <360020+toddtreece@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 15:44:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Prometheus: Set default method to POST in new HTTP client
 (#49198)

---
 pkg/tsdb/prometheus/client/provider.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkg/tsdb/prometheus/client/provider.go b/pkg/tsdb/prometheus/client/provider.go
index 743da828b17..808f1630068 100644
--- a/pkg/tsdb/prometheus/client/provider.go
+++ b/pkg/tsdb/prometheus/client/provider.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package client
 
 import (
+	"net/http"
+
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go/backend"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/services/featuremgmt"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/setting"
@@ -31,6 +33,9 @@ func NewProvider(
 	log log.Logger,
 ) *Provider {
 	httpMethod, _ := maputil.GetStringOptional(jsonData, "httpMethod")
+	if httpMethod == "" {
+		httpMethod = http.MethodPost
+	}
 	return &Provider{
 		settings:       settings,
 		jsonData:       jsonData,