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Assistant SearchUse Assistant Search
Note
is currently in public preview. Grafana Labs offers limited support, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.
Assistant Search helps you find indexed Grafana resources and Assistant memory by describing what you need. Instead of remembering exact names, folders, or labels, you can search in natural language across supported Grafana content.
What you’ll achieve
Use Assistant Search when you want to quickly find resources related to a service, symptom, incident, or operational area. It can return matching dashboards, incidents, investigations, infrastructure context, and alert rules when those collections are available for your stack.
For example, you can search for “payment service latency” to find related dashboards, indexed Grafana IRM incidents, previous Assistant investigations, and alert rules that match the same area.
Before you begin
Before you use Assistant Search, make sure Grafana Assistant is available for your Grafana Cloud stack and Assistant Search is enabled for your organization.
Assistant Search follows Grafana access controls. Results are filtered by the resources you can access, including dashboard and data source permissions where applicable. If you can’t access a resource directly in Grafana, Assistant Search doesn’t use it to answer your query.
Search Grafana resources
To open Assistant Search, open Grafana Assistant from the Grafana navigation menu, then select Assistant Search on the Assistant home page. If you’re already in an Assistant chat, open the Assistant menu and select Assistant Search.
In the Search across Grafana field, describe the resource, system, or problem you want to find.
Assistant Search looks across supported collections and returns the closest matches. Depending on your stack configuration, results can include:
- Dashboards and dashboard panel context.
- Grafana IRM incidents.
- Grafana Assistant Investigations.
- Infrastructure context from Assistant memory.
- Alert rules.
Search results link back to the source resource when a direct link is available.
Example searches
Use natural language to search for operational areas, symptoms, services, or resources. For example:
payment service latency
dashboards for checkout errors
previous investigations about Mimir query latency
alert rules for auth service saturation
infrastructure context for query frontend memory
incidents related to Kafka timeouts
Use AI overview results
When enrichment is available, Assistant Search can also create an AI-generated overview from the search results. Use the overview to understand why the results are relevant and how they relate to your query.
The overview is generated from the search results and any supported live context available to Assistant. Review the linked sources before you make operational decisions.
