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title: "Configure the AI Observability plugin | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Configure plugin settings, RBAC roles, and data source connections in the Grafana AI Observability plugin."
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# Configure the AI Observability plugin

The Grafana AI Observability plugin provides the UI for browsing conversations, managing agents, configuring evaluation, and viewing dashboards. This article covers plugin configuration and access control.

## Plugin roles

AI Observability defines five plugin roles that control access to features:

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| Role                  | Permissions                                                                                       |
|-----------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Sigil Viewer          | Landing page and tutorial.                                                                        |
| Sigil Data Reader     | Read access to dashboards, traces, model cards, and evaluation pages without conversation access. |
| Sigil Reader          | Dashboards, conversations, traces, model cards, and evaluation results.                           |
| Sigil Feedback Writer | Write conversation feedback (ratings and annotations).                                            |
| Sigil Admin           | Full access including feedback, evaluation configuration, alert rules, and data source settings.  |

## Assign roles

Assign AI Observability roles to Grafana roles or teams using RBAC:

1. Navigate to **Administration** > **Users and access** > **Roles**.
2. Find or create the role you want to assign AI Observability permissions to.
3. Add the appropriate `grafana-sigil-app.*` permissions.

## Connect data sources

The AI Observability plugin queries Prometheus (metrics), Tempo (traces), and the AI Observability API (generations). In **Configuration**, set:

- The AI Observability API endpoint.
- The Prometheus data source for metrics dashboards.
- The Tempo data source for trace drilldown.

For Grafana Cloud deployments, data sources are configured automatically.

## Plugin pages

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| Page          | Path                                   | Description                                           |
|---------------|----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
| Analytics     | `/a/grafana-sigil-app/analytics`       | Activity, latency, error, token, and cost dashboards. |
| Conversations | `/a/grafana-sigil-app/conversations`   | Browse and search conversations.                      |
| Tools         | `/a/grafana-sigil-app/analytics/tools` | Tool usage analytics.                                 |
| Agents        | `/a/grafana-sigil-app/agents`          | Agent catalog with version history.                   |
| Evaluation    | `/a/grafana-sigil-app/evaluation`      | Evaluation rules, evaluators, and scores.             |
| Setup         | `/a/grafana-sigil-app/setup`           | Onboarding wizard and demo data seeding.              |
| Configuration | `/plugins/grafana-sigil-app`           | Plugin settings (Admin only).                         |

## Command palette

AI Observability registers its pages in the Grafana command palette. Press `Cmd+K` (Mac) or `Ctrl+K` (Linux/Windows) and type “AI Observability” to quickly navigate to any AI Observability page.

## Next steps

- [Use built-in dashboards](/docs/grafana-cloud/machine-learning/ai-observability/guides/dashboards)
- [Browse conversations](/docs/grafana-cloud/machine-learning/ai-observability/guides/conversations)