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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.
• Cloud Provider Observability installed and configured with at least one provider connection.
• An account with the Grafana Cloud Editor basic role or above, or a custom role 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.

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.