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title: "Open and enable the Assistant plugin | Grafana Labs"
description: "Open the Grafana Assistant plugin and enable it for your Grafana Cloud stack when required."
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# Open and enable the Assistant plugin

How you enable Assistant depends on your Grafana Cloud agreement. On some Free and Pro stacks, terms acceptance is handled automatically when a user first uses an Assistant feature. Stacks that require supplemental AI terms must be enabled from plugin settings by an administrator.

**Already available?** Look for the sparkle icon in the top-right toolbar, or **Assistant** in the left navigation. If you see either one, Assistant is on for your stack. Skip the enable steps and continue.

Open **Plugins**, search for Grafana Assistant, and open the plugin page.

1. Go to **Plugins**.
2. Search for **Grafana Assistant**.
3. Open **Grafana Assistant**.

You should be on the Grafana Assistant plugin page.

Check whether Assistant is already on: sparkle icon in the top-right toolbar, or **Assistant** in the left navigation. If you see either, skip this section.

Only continue if the plugin page shows an **Enable Assistant** (or **Assistant enabled**) checkbox.

1. Open the **Grafana Assistant** plugin page if you are not already there.
2. If you see an **Assistant enabled** or **Enable Assistant** checkbox, select it. If there is no checkbox, skip. An installed plugin page without that control usually means Assistant is already available.
3. Click **Save** if you changed the enable setting.

When Assistant is available, you should see the sparkle icon in the top-right toolbar and/or **Assistant** in the left navigation.

For full setup instructions, refer to [Set up Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud](/docs/grafana-cloud/machine-learning/assistant/get-started/grafana-cloud/#enable-assistant-in-grafana-cloud).

In the next milestone, you’ll open Assistant and send your first prompt.