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title: "Analyze alerts and build dashboards with Grafana Assistant | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Use Grafana Assistant to analyze alerts and generate dashboards in Cloud Provider Observability for AWS, Azure, and GCP."
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# Analyze alerts and build dashboards with Grafana Assistant

Cloud Provider Observability integrates with Grafana Assistant so you can analyze alerts and generate dashboards without leaving the app.

## Before you begin

To use Grafana Assistant in Cloud Provider Observability, you must have:

- Grafana Assistant enabled on your Grafana Cloud stack. Refer to [Get started with Grafana Assistant](/docs/grafana-cloud/machine-learning/assistant/get-started/).
- Cloud Provider Observability installed and configured with at least one provider connection.
- An account with the [Grafana Cloud Editor basic role or above](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/monitor-cloud-provider/rbac/#grafana-cloud-basic-roles), or a [custom role](/docs/grafana/latest/administration/roles-and-permissions/access-control/create-custom-roles/) that includes the `grafana-assistant-app.tokens:access` permission.

## Analyze alerts for a provider

To analyze all alerts for a cloud provider, follow these steps:

1. In the main menu, select **Observability** > **Cloud provider** and then select your provider (**AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP**).
2. Select the **Alerts** tab.
3. Optionally, use the **State**, **Health**, **Severity**, and **Service** filters to refine the alerts you want to analyze.
4. Click **Analyze with Assistant**.

Grafana Assistant opens with the visible alert list loaded as context.

## Analyze a single firing alert

Each row in the alerts table that has a **Firing** state includes an **Analyze** icon on the right side of the row. Clicking this icon opens Grafana Assistant with the context scoped to that alert only.

To analyze a single firing alert, follow these steps:

1. In the main menu, select **Observability** > **Cloud provider** and then select your provider.
2. Select the **Alerts** tab.
3. In the alert row you want to investigate, click the **Analyze** icon.

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> The **Analyze** icon only appears on rows with a **Firing** state.

Grafana Assistant opens with the context of that specific alert.

## Generate a custom dashboard for a service

You can use Grafana Assistant to generate a custom dashboard for a specific cloud service. After building the custom dashboard, you can add it as a quick-access link on the service configuration page.

To generate a dashboard with Grafana Assistant, follow these steps:

1. In the main menu, select **Observability** > **Cloud provider** and then select your provider.
2. Select the **Services** tab.
3. Locate the service you want to add a dashboard for, then click **Configure**.
4. Under **Customize your quick links and add new ones to your custom dashboards**, click **Generate with AI**.
5. Click **Save** when you are satisfied with the dashboard.
6. Click **Save** after reviewing the Title, Description, and Folder information, making edits if necessary.

To add the custom dashboard as a quick-link access link, follow these steps:

1. Click the **Return to AWS EC2 configuration** link in the Grafana Assistant panel.
2. In the **Select a dashboard** dropdown, select the dashboard you generated.
3. Click **Add**.
4. Optionally, select **Set as default** to use this dashboard as the default view for this service.
5. Click **Save**.