Get started with Grafana Assistant

Grafana Assistant is an AI-powered observability agent. Ask it questions in plain language — “Show me CPU usage” or “Create a dashboard for my database” — and it works across your metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and databases to give you answers without needing deep expertise in each tool.

What Assistant can do

Assistant acts as your observability expert through five core workflows:

Run investigations: Ask questions about performance, launch investigations, and correlate metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and SQL data.
Manage dashboards: Create new monitoring dashboards or refine existing panels, layouts, and variables.
Query data: Build and refine PromQL, LogQL, TraceQL, SQL, and k6 queries with validation and optimization tips.
Navigate Grafana resources: Find dashboards, data sources, and related tools without leaving the conversation.
Knowledge and best practices: Ask for Grafana guidance, observability concepts, and monitoring strategies in context.

Choose your setup

Assistant runs directly in Grafana Cloud, or you can install it in a self-managed Grafana instance and connect it to a Grafana Cloud stack.

Set up Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud
Enable Grafana Assistant in your Grafana Cloud stack and start chatting with your metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and databases.
Set up Grafana Assistant in self-managed Grafana
Install the Grafana Assistant app in a self-managed Grafana instance, connect it to a Grafana Cloud stack, and review the reduced feature set compared with Grafana Cloud.