Introduction to Grafana Assistant

Grafana Assistant brings natural-language intelligence to Grafana Cloud so you can explore telemetry, build dashboards, and launch investigations without memorizing syntax. The Assistant runs within your Grafana session, respects your permissions, and uses a network of tools, including metrics, logs, traces, profiles, SQL, and infrastructure memories, to ground every response in your data.

What the Assistant does

The Assistant combines large language models with Grafana-integrated tools. Each chat prompt can call Grafana APIs, run data source queries, or launch investigations. Conversation context, infrastructure memories, and @ mentions keep responses specific to your environment. Because the Assistant operates inside Grafana Cloud, every action passes through existing security, auditing, and RBAC layers.

Key concepts to understand first

The Assistant works best when you understand the guardrails that shape usage, the way conversations retain context, and how teams collaborate around responses. Use these concept guides to build that foundation before diving into hands-on workflows.

Pricing and governance

Start here to understand the policies, limits, and access controls that keep the Assistant aligned with organizational guardrails.

Understand pricing and limits explains the pricing model, token accounting, and weekly usage caps so you know how conversations and investigations consume budget.
Review privacy and security covers data handling, third-party providers, and security measures, and access controls.
Manage Assistant access with RBAC shows how to assign organization and Assistant-specific roles so the right users can chat, launch investigations, or administer settings.

Conversations and prompting

Use these concepts to learn how the Assistant interprets prompts, preserves context, and augments responses with memories.

Apply prompting fundamentals teaches core prompting patterns, including how to use @ mentions and clarifications.
Manage conversation context describes how history, mentions, and memories influence each response and when it’s best to start a new chat.
Understand infrastructure memories explains how discovery scans create reusable service context for both chat and investigations.

Collaboration and quality

Read these guides to coordinate with teammates, provide feedback, and extend conversations with investigations.

Collaborate with Grafana Assistant outlines how to share conversations, summaries, and reusable prompts with teammates.
Share feedback and track quality signals shows how to provide thumbs-up or thumbs-down reactions, interpret limit indicators, and understand how Grafana Labs uses your input.
Understand Assistant investigations details how multi-agent investigations extend beyond chat for complex incidents.

Get started

Follow the Get started with Grafana Assistant guide to enable the Assistant, accept the terms, connect data sources, and learn how the onboarding tutorial introduces chat, navigation, and dashboard workflows. The guide also covers the first conversation, how to use mentions, and ways to provide feedback after each response.

Workflow guides

Once you grasp the concepts, jump into the workflow hubs. Each area collects step-by-step guides arranged from introductory tasks to advanced scenarios, plus links to deeper workflows.

Grafana Assistant workflows support multiple audiences: site reliability engineers and operators who triage incidents, dashboard authors and analysts who publish insights, and platform administrators who coordinate access and automation.

To get value fast, choose the outcome you want, such as analysis, dashboards, queries, navigation, or knowledge sharing, open the matching hub, and follow the tasks plus related resources to deepen or hand off the work.

Learn with Grafana Assistant

Capture institutional knowledge and observability guidance. The Learn with Grafana Assistant hub provides product explanations, concept refreshers, and monitoring strategy playbooks.

Navigate Grafana resources

Find the right Grafana assets fast. The Navigate Grafana resources hub focuses on locating dashboards, data sources, incident views, and sharing navigation summaries.

Generate and refine queries

Draft, validate, and optimize queries without memorizing syntax. The Generate and refine queries hub includes PromQL, LogQL, TraceQL, SQL, and k6 workflows plus optimization techniques.

Run data analysis and investigations

Answer operational questions or launch deeper investigations. The Run data analysis and investigations hub covers quick questions, cross-signal correlation, infrastructure memories, and multi-agent investigations.

Manage dashboards with Assistant

Translate requirements into dashboards or polish existing panels. The Manage dashboards with Assistant hub walks through creation, refinement, variables, layouts, and related rule automations.

Configure Assistant rules

Define behavioral guardrails that shape every conversation. The Configure Assistant rules hub shows how to encode hints, communication style, best practices, and workflow escalations.

What’s next

Follow Get started with Grafana Assistant to enable the feature and try your first workflows.
Review Manage your data privacy and security to understand data handling, third-party providers, security measures, and access controls.
Review Pricing and limits to understand projected costs and limits.