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title: "Grafana Assistant | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Guided conversations that help Grafana teams analyze, troubleshoot, and ship faster in Grafana Cloud or in self-managed Grafana connected to Grafana Cloud."
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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).

# Grafana Assistant

Accelerate dashboard creation, analytics, and troubleshooting with guided conversations in Grafana Cloud or in self-managed Grafana connected to a Grafana Cloud Assistant backend.

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> Note
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> Grafana Assistant is an AI Feature. Learn more in the [Grafana Labs Supplemental Terms for AI Features](/legal/supplemental-terms/).

## Overview

Grafana Assistant brings a purpose-built LLM to Grafana so operators, developers, and SREs can troubleshoot issues, manage dashboards, and answer product questions in minutes. You can run it directly in Grafana Cloud, try it in the public [Grafana Play sandbox](https://play.grafana.org/), or use it from a self-managed Grafana deployment that connects to a Grafana Cloud Assistant backend. Strong privacy and security controls ensure conversations respect RBAC, route through vetted service providers, and rely on your telemetry to produce action-ready results.

Whether you’re analyzing data, polishing dashboards for executives, or guiding teammates to navigation and knowledge resources, Assistant removes manual querying and helps teams move faster. Some advanced features, including investigations and Grafana Cloud MCP connections, are available only with the full Grafana Cloud feature set.

Organizations save hours of toil and reduce operational cost by letting Assistant surface insights while engineers focus on higher-value work.

Developers can extend these capabilities in plugins and external systems using the [SDKs and APIs for developers](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/reference).

## Explore next steps

[Get started  
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Enable Grafana Assistant and connect your data sources to get started.](get-started/)

[Self-managed  
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Connect Grafana Assistant for a self-managed Grafana to a Grafana Cloud stack and see how the feature set compares to using Assistant in Grafana Cloud only.](get-started/self-managed/)

[Privacy and security  
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Review data handling, provider commitments, RBAC guardrails, and feedback controls that govern the service.](privacy-and-security/)

[Explore Assistant capabilities  
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Learn about Workspace, data source support, Skills, Automations, infrastructure memory, investigations, and specialized modes.](platform/)

[Prompting guides  
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Explore practical prompting workflows including querying data, navigating Grafana, dashboarding, alerting, and incident response.](guides/)

[Configure Assistant  
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Configure rules, MCP servers, IRM webhooks, and external Assistant connections.](configure/)

[Reference  
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Integrate Grafana Assistant into plugins, external applications, and Go AI backends using SDKs and APIs.](reference/)