Ansible playbooks
Although Grafana does not yet have an officially supported Ansible collection or role, users can manage different resources on Grafana Cloud programmatically by writing ansible playbooks that use the Ansible’s builtin uri module to call the HTTP APIs to manage resources for Grafana Cloud portal as well as those within a stack. Use the following guide to get started with using Ansible to manage your Grafana Cloud stack:
- Creating and managing a Grafana Cloud stack using Ansible describes how to create a Grafana Cloud stack and add a data source and dashboard using Ansible.
- Installing Grafana Agent on a Linux host using Ansible describes how to install the Grafana Agent on a Linux node using Ansible and use it to push logs to Grafana Cloud.
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