diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/grafana_dashboard.py b/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/grafana_dashboard.py
index 4b4ae9bacc7..67f99e8433a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/grafana_dashboard.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/monitoring/grafana_dashboard.py
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ def get_grafana_version(module, grafana_url, headers):
     if info['status'] == 200:
         try:
             settings = json.loads(r.read())
-            grafana_version = string.split(settings['buildInfo']['version'], '.')[0]
+            grafana_version = settings['buildInfo']['version'].split('.')[0]
         except Exception as e:
             raise GrafanaAPIException(e)
     else: