diff --git a/plugins/modules/grafana_silence.py b/plugins/modules/grafana_silence.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+# Copyright: (c) 2023, Rémi REY (@rrey)
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
+
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+---
+module: grafana_silence
+author:
+  - Falk (@flkhndlr)
+version_added: "1.5.5"
+short_description: Manage Grafana Silences
+description:
+  - Create/delete Grafana Silences through the Alertmanager Silence API.
+requirements:
+  - The Alertmanager API is only available starting Grafana 8 and the module will fail if the server version is lower than version 8.
+options:
+  comment:
+    description:
+      - The comment that describes the silence.
+    required: true
+    type: str
+  created_by:
+    description:
+      - The author that creates the silence.
+    required: true
+    type: str
+  starts_at:
+    description:
+      - ISO 8601 Timestamp with milliseconds  e.g. "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z" when the silence starts.
+    type: str
+  ends_at:
+    description:
+      - ISO 8601 Timestamp with milliseconds  e.g. "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z" when the silence will end.
+    type: str
+  matchers:
+    description:
+      - List of matchers to select which alerts are affected by the silence.
+    type: list
+    elements: str
+  state:
+    description:
+      - Delete the first occurrence of a silence with the same settings.
+    default: present
+    type: str
+    choices: ["present", "absent"]
+  skip_version_check:
+    description:
+      - Skip Grafana version check and try to reach api endpoint anyway.
+      - This parameter can be useful if you enabled `hide_version` in grafana.ini
+    required: False
+    type: bool
+    default: False
+    version_added: "1.2.0"
+extends_documentation_fragment:
+- community.grafana.basic_auth
+- community.grafana.api_key
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+---
+- name: Create a silence
+  community.grafana.grafana_silence:
+      url: "https://grafana.example.com"
+      grafana_api_key: "{{ some_api_token_value }}"
+      comment: "a testcomment"
+      created_by: "me"
+      starts_at: "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z"
+      ends_at: "2029-07-29T08:55:45.000Z"
+      matchers:
+        - isEqual: true
+          isRegex: true
+          name: environment
+          value: test
+      state: present
+
+- name: Delete a silence
+  community.grafana.grafana_silence:
+      url: "https://grafana.example.com"
+      grafana_api_key: "{{ some_api_token_value }}"
+      comment: "a testcomment"
+      created_by: "me"
+      starts_at: "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z"
+      ends_at: "2029-07-29T08:55:45.000Z"
+      matchers:
+        - isEqual: true
+          isRegex: true
+          name: environment
+          value: test
+      state: absent
+'''
+
+RETURN = '''
+---
+silence:
+    description: Information about the Silence
+    returned: On success
+    type: complex
+    contains:
+        id:
+            description: The id of the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: str
+            sample:
+                - ec27df6b-ac3c-412f-ae0b-6e3e1f41c9c3
+        comment:
+            description: The comment of the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: str
+            sample:
+                - this is a test
+        createdBy:
+            description: The author of the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: str
+            sample:
+                - me
+        startsAt:
+            description: The begin timestamp of the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: str
+            sample:
+                - "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z"
+        endsAt:
+            description: The end timestamp of the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: str
+            sample:
+                - "2029-07-29T08:55:45.000Z"
+        matchers:
+            description: The matchers of the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: list
+            sample:
+                - [{"isEqual": true, "isRegex": true, "name": "environment", "value": "test"}]
+        status:
+            description: The status of the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: object
+            sample:
+                - {"state": "pending"}
+        updatedAt:
+            description: The timestamp of the last update for the Silence
+            returned: success
+            type: str
+            sample:
+                - "2023-07-27T13:27:33.042Z"
+'''
+
+import json
+
+from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
+from ansible.module_utils.urls import fetch_url, basic_auth_header
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
+from ansible_collections.community.grafana.plugins.module_utils import base
+from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import quote
+
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+
+class GrafanaError(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class GrafanaSilenceInterface(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, module):
+        self._module = module
+        # {{{ Authentication header
+        self.headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
+        module.params['force_basic_auth'] = True
+        if module.params.get('grafana_api_key', None):
+            self.headers["Authorization"] = "Bearer %s" % module.params['grafana_api_key']
+        else:
+            self.headers["Authorization"] = basic_auth_header(module.params['url_username'], module.params['url_password'])
+        # }}}
+        self.grafana_url = base.clean_url(module.params.get("url"))
+        if module.params.get("skip_version_check") is False:
+            try:
+                grafana_version = self.get_version()
+            except GrafanaError as e:
+                self._module.fail_json(failed=True, msg=to_text(e))
+            if grafana_version["major"] < 5:
+                self._module.fail_json(failed=True, msg="Silences API is available starting Grafana v8")
+
+    def _send_request(self, url, data=None, headers=None, method="GET"):
+        if data is not None:
+            data = json.dumps(data)
+        if not headers:
+            headers = []
+
+        full_url = "{grafana_url}{path}".format(grafana_url=self.grafana_url, path=url)
+        resp, info = fetch_url(self._module, full_url, data=data, headers=headers, method=method)
+        status_code = info["status"]
+        if status_code == 404:
+            return None
+        elif status_code == 401:
+            self._module.fail_json(failed=True, msg="Unauthorized to perform action '%s' on '%s'" % (method, full_url))
+        elif status_code == 403:
+            self._module.fail_json(failed=True, msg="Permission Denied")
+        elif status_code == 202:
+            return self._module.from_json(resp.read())
+        elif status_code == 200:
+            return self._module.from_json(resp.read())
+        elif status_code == 400:
+            self._module.fail_json(failed=True, msg=info)
+        self._module.fail_json(failed=True, msg="Grafana Silences API answered with HTTP %d" % status_code)
+
+    def get_version(self):
+        url = "/api/health"
+        response = self._send_request(url, data=None, headers=self.headers, method="GET")
+        version = response.get("version")
+        if version is not None:
+            major, minor, rev = version.split(".")
+            return {"major": int(major), "minor": int(minor), "rev": int(rev)}
+        raise GrafanaError("Failed to retrieve version from '%s'" % url)
+
+    def create_silence(self, comment, createdBy, startsAt ,endsAt, matchers):
+        url = "/api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/silences"
+        silence = dict(comment=comment, createdBy=createdBy, startsAt=startsAt, endsAt=endsAt, matchers=matchers)
+        response = self._send_request(url, data=silence, headers=self.headers, method="POST")
+        return response
+
+    def get_silence(self, comment, createdBy, startsAt ,endsAt, matchers):
+        url = "/api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/silences"
+
+        responses = self._send_request(url, headers=self.headers, method="GET")
+
+        for response in responses:
+            if response["comment"] == comment and response["createdBy"] == createdBy and \
+                    response["startsAt"] == startsAt and response["endsAt"] == endsAt and \
+                    response["matchers"] == matchers:
+                return response
+            else:
+                return None
+        return None
+
+    def get_silence_by_id(self, silence_id):
+        url = "/api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/silence/{SilenceId}".format(SilenceId=silence_id)
+        response = self._send_request(url, headers=self.headers, method="GET")
+        return response
+
+    def get_silences(self):
+        url = "/api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/silences"
+        response = self._send_request(url, headers=self.headers, method="GET")
+        return response
+
+    def delete_silence(self, silence_id):
+        url = "/api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/silence/{SilenceId}".format(SilenceId=silence_id)
+        response = self._send_request(url, headers=self.headers, method="DELETE")
+        return response
+
+
+
+def setup_module_object():
+    module = AnsibleModule(
+        argument_spec=argument_spec,
+        supports_check_mode=False,
+        required_together=base.grafana_required_together(),
+        mutually_exclusive=base.grafana_mutually_exclusive(),
+    )
+    return module
+
+
+argument_spec = base.grafana_argument_spec()
+argument_spec.update(
+    comment=dict(type='str', required=True),
+    state=dict(type='str', required=True),
+    created_by=dict(type='str', required=True),
+    starts_at=dict(type='str', required=True),
+    ends_at=dict(type='str', required=True),
+    matchers=dict(type='list', elements='dict', required=True),
+)
+
+
+def main():
+
+    module = setup_module_object()
+    comment = module.params['comment']
+    created_by = module.params['created_by']
+    starts_at = module.params['starts_at']
+    ends_at = module.params['ends_at']
+    matchers = module.params['matchers']
+    state = module.params['state']
+
+    changed = False
+    failed = False
+    silence = ""
+    grafana_iface = GrafanaSilenceInterface(module)
+
+    if state == 'present':
+        silence = grafana_iface.get_silence(comment, created_by, starts_at, ends_at, matchers)
+        if silence is None:
+            silence = grafana_iface.create_silence(comment, created_by, starts_at, ends_at, matchers)
+            silence = grafana_iface.get_silence_by_id(silence["silenceID"])
+            changed = True
+        else:
+            module.exit_json(failed=failed, changed=changed,
+                             msg="Silence with same parameters already exists! eg. '%s'" % silence["id"])
+    elif state == 'absent':
+        silence = grafana_iface.get_silence(comment, created_by, starts_at, ends_at, matchers)
+        if silence is not None:
+            grafana_iface.delete_silence(silence["id"])
+            changed = True
+        else:
+            failed = True
+            module.exit_json(failed=failed, changed=changed,
+                             msg="No Silence with the same parameters found! Deletion not possible")
+    module.exit_json(failed=failed, changed=changed, silence=silence)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/grafana_silence/defaults/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/grafana_silence/defaults/main.yml
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+---
+
+grafana_url: "http://localhost:3000/"
+grafana_username: "admin"
+grafana_password: "admin"
+
+...
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/grafana_silence/tasks/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/grafana_silence/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+- name: Create new silence
+  grafana_silence:
+    url: "{{ grafana_url }}"
+    url_username: "{{ grafana_username }}"
+    url_password: "{{ grafana_password }}"
+    comment: "a testcomment"
+    created_by: "me"
+    starts_at: "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z"
+    ends_at: "2029-07-29T08:55:45.000Z"
+    matchers:
+      - isEqual: true
+        isRegex: true
+        name: environment
+        value: test
+    state: present
+  register: result
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - "result.changed == true"
+      - "result.failed == false"
+      - "result.silence.id != ''"
+
+- name: Check idempotency on silence creation
+  grafana_silence:
+    url: "{{ grafana_url }}"
+    url_username: "{{ grafana_username }}"
+    url_password: "{{ grafana_password }}"
+    comment: "a testcomment"
+    created_by: "me"
+    starts_at: "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z"
+    ends_at: "2029-07-29T08:55:45.000Z"
+    matchers:
+      - isEqual: true
+        isRegex: true
+        name: environment
+        value: test
+    state: present
+  register: result
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - "result.changed == false"
+      - "result.msg != ''"
+
+- name: Delete the silence
+  grafana_silence:
+    url: "{{ grafana_url }}"
+    url_username: "{{ grafana_username }}"
+    url_password: "{{ grafana_password }}"
+    comment: "a testcomment"
+    created_by: "me"
+    starts_at: "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z"
+    ends_at: "2029-07-29T08:55:45.000Z"
+    matchers:
+      - isEqual: true
+        isRegex: true
+        name: environment
+        value: test
+    state: absent
+  register: result
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - "result.changed == true"
+      - "result.failed == false"
+      - "result.silence.id != ''"
+      - - "result.silence.createdBy != 'me'"
+
+- name: Check idempotency on silence deletion
+  grafana_silence:
+    url: "{{ grafana_url }}"
+    url_username: "{{ grafana_username }}"
+    url_password: "{{ grafana_password }}"
+    comment: "a testcomment"
+    created_by: "me"
+    starts_at: "2029-07-29T08:45:45.000Z"
+    ends_at: "2029-07-29T08:55:45.000Z"
+    matchers:
+      - isEqual: true
+        isRegex: true
+        name: environment
+        value: test
+    state: absent
+  register: result
+  ignore_errors: yes
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - "result.changed == false"
+      - "result.failed == true"
+      - "result.msg == 'No Silence with the same parameters found! Deletion not possible'"
+