Use Grafana Assistant and Assistant Investigations

These guides explain how to use Grafana Assistant to perform common tasks in Grafana Cloud and in self-managed Grafana connected to a Grafana Cloud Assistant backend. Learn how to query your data, build dashboards, and investigate incidents using natural language.

Some guides describe features that are not available in self-managed deployments, especially investigations, infrastructure memory, Grafana Cloud MCP connections, and other Grafana Cloud-only workflows.

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Topics in this hub

Get onboarding support
Use Grafana Assistant to learn Grafana features, observability concepts, and build monitoring strategies.
Query data
Use Grafana Assistant to write, explain, and optimize queries for Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, SQL databases, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, Zabbix, and other supported data sources.
Use Learn mode
Use Grafana Assistant Learn mode to get personalized observability lessons based on your role, goals, and infrastructure.
Manage dashboards
Find, understand, create, and edit Grafana dashboards with the Assistant.
Navigate Grafana resources
Locate resources, build deep links, and coordinate incident response with Grafana Assistant.
Infrastructure memory
Learn how Grafana Assistant automatically builds and maintains knowledge about your infrastructure to improve accuracy.
Run investigations
Use Grafana Assistant to explore issues, correlate signals, and run investigations in Assistant Workspace.
Create Skills
Create and manage skills to encode team knowledge and guide Assistant agents.
Manage and investigate alerts
Use Grafana Assistant to list rules, investigate history, manage silences, and troubleshoot routing.
Use Automations
Create saved Grafana Assistant prompts that you can run on demand or on a recurring schedule.
Incident response and management
Manage on-call schedules, request shift swaps, and track incidents using the Assistant.
Use Grafana Assistant CLI
Use Grafana Assistant CLI for terminal chat, automation, and local project access.
Slack integration
Configure and use the Grafana Assistant Slack integration to interact with Assistant directly from Slack channels.
Use Knowledge Graph mode
Use Grafana Assistant Knowledge Graph mode to troubleshoot entity modeling, configuration, custom insights, and rule management.
Manage Alloy pipelines in Fleet Management
Use Grafana Assistant to validate, create, inspect, and update Alloy pipelines in Grafana Fleet Management.