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Add a note (userNote activity) to an existing incident's timeline using its ID.

Read the agent catalog of Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin): which agents send telemetry, what their system prompts and tools are, how their prompt versions evolved, and how each version scored.

List, search, and fetch LLM conversations from Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin).

Manage the curated conversations of Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin): bookmark conversations as saved conversations and group them into collections.

Manage the evaluation rules and guards of Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin): the configuration that decides when evaluators run.

Manage the evaluator catalog of Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin): read evaluators, evaluator templates, and the judge model catalog, and create, test, or delete evaluators.

Manage the offline experiments of Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin), their trials, and their scores.

Fetch a single LLM generation and its evaluation scores from Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin).

Manage the test suites of Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin), their versions, and their test cases.

Manage Grafana alerting routing configuration, including notification policies, contact points and time intervals.

Manage Grafana alert rules with full CRUD capabilities and filtering.

Manage Grafana alerting silences.

Audits a Loki label strategy and optionally diagnoses query performance.

Send a message to Grafana Assistant and wait for the full text reply.

Check datasource health.

Create a new annotation on a dashboard or panel.

Create a datasource.

Create a Grafana folder.

Create a new Grafana incident.

Start a Grafana Assistant investigation: an agentic, multi-step root-cause analysis across the stack's metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.

Create a Grafana snapshot from a full dashboard payload.

Delete a Grafana snapshot by snapshot key.

Get column names for an Athena table.

Get column schema for a ClickHouse table.

Start here when users ask about their infrastructure, services, or architecture.

Get column schema for a Snowflake table.

Generate deeplink URLs for Grafana resources.

Get a specific alert group from Grafana OnCall by its ID.

Fetch Grafana annotations using filters such as dashboard UID, time range and tags.

Returns annotation tags with optional filtering by tag name.

Get assertion summary for a given entity with its type, name, env, site, namespace, and a time range

Get the list of users currently on-call for a specific Grafana OnCall schedule ID.

Retrieves the complete dashboard, including panels, variables, and settings, for a specific dashboard identified by its UID.

Retrieve panel queries from a Grafana dashboard.

Get specific parts of a dashboard using JSONPath expressions to minimize context window usage.

Get a compact summary of a dashboard including title\, panel count\, panel types\, variables\, and other metadata without the full JSON.

Retrieves detailed information about a specific datasource by UID or name.

Get a single incident by ID.

Get one Grafana Assistant investigation (AI-driven root-cause investigation) by ID.

Get the working thread of one Grafana Assistant investigation (AI-driven root-cause investigation) by ID: the user-visible conversation between the investigation agent and its tools.

Get detailed information for a specific Grafana OnCall shift using its ID.

Render a Grafana dashboard panel or full dashboard as a PNG image.

Check whether a Grafana plugin is installed and retrieve its details (name, version, type, enabled status).

Get example queries for a specific datasource type.

List available permissions and assignment capabilities for a Grafana resource type.

List all permissions set on a specific Grafana resource (e.

List all assignments for a specific role, showing which users, teams, and service accounts have been assigned this role.

Get detailed information about a specific Grafana role by its UID, including permissions, metadata, and configuration.

Get a Grafana snapshot by key, including snapshot metadata and dashboard payload.

Make an authenticated HTTP request to the Grafana API.

Install a Grafana plugin by its plugin ID.

List alert groups from Grafana OnCall with filtering options.

List all roles in Grafana.

START HERE for Athena: List available data catalogs (e.

List databases in an Athena catalog.

List tables in an Athena database.

START HERE for ClickHouse: List available tables (name, database, engine, row count, size).

List dimension keys for a CloudWatch metric.

List metrics for a CloudWatch namespace.

START HERE for CloudWatch: List available namespaces (AWS/EC2, AWS/ECS, AWS/RDS, etc.

List all configured datasources in Grafana.

Discover available metric paths in a Graphite datasource by browsing the metric tree.

List available tag names in a Graphite datasource that uses tag-based metrics.

List Grafana incidents.

List the evidence citation index for one Grafana Assistant investigation (AI-driven root-cause investigation) by ID.

List the agent profiles available for Grafana Assistant investigations (AI-driven root-cause investigations) on this Grafana Cloud stack.

List Grafana Assistant investigations (AI-driven root-cause investigations) on this Grafana Cloud stack.

Lists all available label/field names (keys) found in logs within a specified Loki or VictoriaLogs datasource and time range.

Retrieves all unique values associated with a specific `labelName` within a Loki or VictoriaLogs datasource and time range.

List Grafana OnCall schedules, optionally filtering by team ID.

List teams configured in Grafana OnCall.

List users from Grafana OnCall.

List label names in a PromQL-compatible datasource (Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, Cloud Monitoring, etc.

Use after list_prometheus_metric_names to find label values for filtering queries.

List Prometheus metric metadata.

DISCOVERY: Call this first to find available metrics before querying.

Lists all available label names (keys) found in profiles within a specified Pyroscope datasource, time range, and optional label matchers.

Lists all available label values for a particular label name found in profiles within a specified Pyroscope datasource, time range, and optional label matchers.

Lists all available profile types available in a specified Pyroscope datasource and time range.

List Grafana dashboard snapshots with optional query and result limit filters.

START HERE for Snowflake: List available tables (database, schema, name, kind, row count, size) via INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

List all roles assigned to one or more teams.

Search for Grafana teams by a query string.

List all roles assigned to one or more users.

List users in the Grafana organization.

Query Amazon Athena via Grafana.

Query ClickHouse via Grafana.

Query AWS CloudWatch metrics via Grafana.

Executes a search query against an Elasticsearch or OpenSearch datasource and retrieves matching documents.

WORKFLOW: list_graphite_metrics -> query_graphite.

Analyses metric data density for one or more Graphite series over a time window.

Query an InfluxDB datasource via Grafana.

Executes a log query against a Loki or VictoriaLogs datasource and returns matching log entries (or metric samples on Loki).

Retrieves detected log patterns from a Loki datasource for a given stream selector and time range.

Retrieves index-level statistics about log streams matching a given selector within a Loki or VictoriaLogs datasource and time range.

WORKFLOW: list_prometheus_metric_names -> list_prometheus_label_values -> query_prometheus.

Query Prometheus histogram percentiles.

Unified Pyroscope query tool for fetching profiles or metrics from Pyroscope.

Executes a search query against a Quickwit datasource and retrieves matching documents.

Query Snowflake via Grafana.

Executes one or more dashboard panel queries with optional time range and variable overrides.

Search for Grafana dashboards by a query string.

Search for Grafana folders by a query string.

Search the Grafana plugin catalog by keyword to discover available plugins before installing or getting plugin details on a specific instance.

Generates an Alloy loki.

Documentation on Tempo configuration.

Documentation on TraceQL search.

Get a list of available attribute names that can be used in TraceQL queries.

Get a list of values for a fully scoped attribute name.

Retrieve a specific trace by ID

Retrieve a single metric value given a TraceQL metrics query.

Retrieve a metric series given a TraceQL metrics query.

Search for traces using TraceQL queries

Update the state of a Grafana OnCall alert group: acknowledge, unacknowledge, resolve, or unresolve it by ID.

Updates the provided properties of an annotation by ID.

Create or update a dashboard.

Update non-secret datasource fields by UID.

Update an existing Grafana incident by ID.