grafana-helper

What problem does it solve?

This Skill automates Grafana operational tasks via the REST API, eliminating repetitive UI interactions for dashboards, datasources, alerts, and annotations.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Dashboard management: Search, retrieve, create, update, and manage dashboards through the Grafana HTTP API.
• Datasource & metric access: List, get, and query Prometheus/Loki data sources and metrics; access labels and metadata as needed.
• Alerts & annotations: Create and update alert rules and annotations, manage folders, and orchestrate alerting workflows via API.
• Cloud and self-hosted workflows: Works with Grafana Cloud and self-hosted deployments to automate monitoring tasks and ready-made Sift/Asserts integrations.
• Use Case: Automatically inventory dashboards, validate essential dashboards exist, perform health checks, and generate a consolidated report.

Quick Start

1. Set environment variables export GRAFANA_URL="https://your-grafana" export GRAFANA_API_KEY="your-api-key" AUTH="Authorization: Bearer $GRAFANA_API_KEY"
2. Test the connection curl -H "$AUTH" "$GRAFANA_URL/api/health"
3. Example: list dashboards curl -H "$AUTH" "$GRAFANA_URL/api/search?type=dash-db"