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title: "Explore Assistant capabilities | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn about Grafana Assistant surfaces, context features, reusable instructions, automations, and advanced investigation capabilities."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Explore Assistant capabilities

Explore the core Grafana Assistant features from simple surfaces to advanced investigation and configuration-aware workflows. Start with Workspace and data source support, then move into reusable instructions, automations, infrastructure context, and specialized modes.

## Feature topics

[Workspace  
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Use the full-page Assistant experience for conversations, context, canvas output, dashboard drafts, and investigations.](workspace/)

[Data source support  
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Review supported data sources and query types before you write prompts that query telemetry.](../guides/querying/#supported-data-sources)

[Learn mode  
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Get personalized observability lessons based on your role, goals, and infrastructure.](learn-mode/)

[Assistant CLI  
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Use Assistant from your terminal for interactive chat, one-off prompts, automation, and local project context.](cli/)

[Skills  
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Create reusable instructions and team knowledge that Assistant can discover or run as slash commands.](skills/)

[Automations  
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Save prompts and run them manually or on a recurring schedule.](automations/)

[Infrastructure memory  
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Understand how Assistant builds context about your services, dependencies, and telemetry.](infrastructure-memory/)

[Assistant Investigations  
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Launch longer-running investigations that correlate metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in Workspace.](investigation/)

[Knowledge Graph mode  
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Troubleshoot entity relationships, custom insights, rule management, and knowledge graph configuration.](knowledge-graph/)