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title: "Prompting guides for Grafana Assistant | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Learn how to prompt Grafana Assistant to onboard, query data, navigate resources, manage dashboards, inspect alerts, work with incidents, author k6 scripts, and use supported features."
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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).

# Prompting guides for Grafana Assistant

These guides explain how to prompt Grafana Assistant for common tasks in Grafana Cloud and in self-managed Grafana connected to a Grafana Cloud Assistant backend. Learn how to query your data, build dashboards, author k6 scripts, manage alerts, and work through incident response tasks using natural language.

Some guides describe prompts for features that are not available in self-managed deployments, especially investigations, infrastructure memory, Grafana Cloud MCP connections, and other Grafana Cloud-only workflows.

## Before you begin

- Review [Pricing and limits](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/pricing).
- Review [Privacy and security](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/privacy-and-security).
- Set up and [Get started with Grafana Assistant](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/get-started).

## Topics in this hub

- [Get onboarding support](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/onboarding/)  
  Use Grafana Assistant to learn Grafana features, observability concepts, and build monitoring strategies.
- [Query data](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/querying/)  
  Use Grafana Assistant to write, explain, and optimize queries for Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, SQL databases, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, New Relic, Zabbix, and other supported data sources.
- [Manage dashboards](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/dashboarding/)  
  Find, understand, create, and edit Grafana dashboards with the Assistant.
- [Author k6 scripts](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/k6-script-authoring/)  
  Use Grafana Assistant k6 Script Authoring mode to create, analyze, improve, and convert k6 performance test scripts.
- [Navigate Grafana resources](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/navigation/)  
  Locate resources, build deep links, and coordinate incident response with Grafana Assistant.
- [Manage and investigate alerts](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/alerting/)  
  Use Grafana Assistant to list rules, investigate history, manage silences, and troubleshoot routing.
- [Incident response and management](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/irm/)  
  Manage on-call schedules, request shift swaps, and track incidents using the Assistant.
- [Manage Alloy pipelines in Fleet Management](/docs/grafana-cloud/platform/grafana-assistant/guides/fleet-management/)  
  Use Grafana Assistant to validate, create, inspect, and update Alloy pipelines in Grafana Fleet Management.