Sift investigations
Sift is a powerful, free diagnostic assistant included in Grafana Cloud designed to perform investigations on your infrastructure telemetry. When you run a Sift investigations, Sift will run a number of checks and curate a rich list of “interesting results” which includes a over a dozen points of investigative summaries.
With Sift, you can reduce your time to action for investigations and quickly identify critical details during incidents. By employing a series of individual checks, Sift examines specific aspects of your infrastructure during investigations, groups the analyses together, and provides insights and links across Grafana to add a new foundational level of clarity and linearity to your investigative processes.
Explore Sift
Sift investigations: Learn more about how Sift work in Grafana Cloud.
Configure Sift: Configure your Sift investigation analysis settings.
Sift panel: Find out more about the Sift panel and how to show results directly on your dashboards.
Sift analyses: Read more about the configurable analyses in Sift.
RBAC permissions
Sift can also be managed using RBAC similar to Dynamic Alerting. See the Dynamic Alerting RBAC page for how to configure RBAC.
The Sift specific RBAC roles are:
- Sift Editors:
- Start investigations
- Edit configurations
- Sift Viewers:
- View investigations
