Get onboarding support
Use Grafana Assistant to learn how to use Grafana Cloud features, understand observability concepts, and design monitoring strategies for your services.
What you’ll achieve
- Get step-by-step instructions for Grafana workflows.
- Learn about metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.
- Design monitoring plans for new services.
Get help with Grafana
Ask the Assistant for actionable instructions when you are stuck or want to learn a new feature.
- Describe the task. Explain what you want to do in natural language.
- Add context. Use
@mentions to point to specific dashboards or panels.
Get feature help
How do I share a dashboard snapshot?
Provide the steps to configure alerting rules for the @panel I mentioned.
Learn observability concepts
Ask the Assistant to clarify observability signals and how they apply to your environment.
- Ask tailored questions. Ask about a concept like “aggregated metrics”.
- Link to your data. Mention a service or dashboard so the explanation references your telemetry.
Clarify concepts
Explain how Tempo traces differ from logs in my checkout service.
Why should we collect profiles for this application?
Build monitoring strategies
Design monitoring coverage when you launch a new service or update your architecture.
- Describe the service. Summarize the architecture and business goals.
- Request a plan. Ask for recommended signals, dashboard layouts, and alerting rules.
Request a strategy
We are launching a payments API. Suggest the metrics, logs, and traces we should collect.
Next steps
- Explore Query data workflows.
- Learn about Navigate Grafana resources.



