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title: "Journey overview | Grafana Labs"
description: "Overview of the Introduction to Grafana Assistant guide"
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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).

## Review your outcomes

Use this journey to build a foundation for setup, navigation, querying, dashboarding, and guided learning with Assistant.

- **Enable** Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud or connect it to a self-managed Grafana deployment.
- **Navigate** Grafana resources using natural language, without browsing folders.
- **Generate** and explain queries for metrics, logs, traces, and other data sources.
- **Create and edit** dashboards without writing queries from scratch.
- **Use** Learn mode to get guided observability lessons tailored to your environment.

## Identify the audience

This journey is for users who want to work with Grafana through natural-language prompts.

- **Developers** who want to query observability data and build dashboards without memorizing PromQL or LogQL.
- **SREs and platform engineers** who need fast access to dashboards and data during incidents.
- **Anyone new to Grafana** who wants a conversational way to explore their observability stack.

## Review the journey coverage

The journey follows a short sequence from concepts and setup to common Assistant workflows.

| Section                   | Skills                                                                  |
|---------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Introduction**          | Understand what Assistant is, deployment models, privacy and security.  |
| **Get started**           | Enable Assistant in Grafana Cloud or self-managed Grafana, Learn mode.  |
| **Use Grafana Assistant** | Navigate resources, query data, manage dashboards, and find next steps. |

## Plan the journey duration

~30-40 minutes