Grafana Cloud

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.

Before you begin

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, 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 launch multi-agent investigations.
  • 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.
  • Manage Alloy pipelines in Fleet Management
    Use Grafana Assistant to validate, create, inspect, and update Alloy pipelines in Grafana Fleet Management.