Best AI Assistant for Grafana

What Carly can do with Grafana

Pull dashboard metrics on demand

Email or text Carly to get the current values from any Grafana dashboard panel. She reports the metric value, trend direction, and whether it's within normal range — no navigating through dashboard folders.

Review alert statuses and history

Ask Carly for a summary of your Grafana alerts and she lists which ones are firing, pending, or resolved — with timestamps, severity, and the metric values that triggered them. Great for morning check-ins or incident reviews.

Check data source health

Text Carly to check the status of your Grafana data sources — Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, or any other connected source. She reports whether each is reachable, responding, and returning data normally.

Get metric comparisons across time

Ask Carly to compare a metric across two time windows — like this week vs. last week or pre-deploy vs. post-deploy. She pulls the values from Grafana and highlights any significant changes.

Why engineering teams are using AI to manage Grafana

Grafana is the observability layer for most infrastructure stacks — pulling together metrics from Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, and dozens of other data sources into dashboards that teams rely on daily. But the more dashboards you build, the harder it gets to stay on top of them. Checking a dashboard means opening the browser, navigating to the right folder, selecting the right time range, and scanning panels for anomalies. When you're managing multiple services across staging and production, that's a lot of clicking.

AI tools for Grafana should let you query your dashboards without opening them. Instead of interrupting your workflow to check whether a metric is trending up or whether an alert fired overnight, you should be able to ask and get the data back immediately. Your dashboards are tracking everything around the clock — your ability to read them shouldn't require the Grafana UI.

How Carly works as your AI Grafana assistant

Carly connects to your Grafana instance through the API. Once connected, you interact with your dashboards, alerts, and data sources over email or text — like having an observability engineer on call who can pull up any panel instantly.

Want to know if your API latency spiked after a deploy? Email Carly and she pulls the relevant metric from your Grafana dashboard and reports the current value, trend, and whether it's outside normal range. Need a quick summary of which alerts fired overnight? Text Carly and she lists every triggered and resolved alert with timestamps and severity. Wondering if a specific data source is having issues? Ask Carly and she checks the health status of your Prometheus, InfluxDB, or any other connected source.

Because Carly connects to 200+ tools, she can tie your Grafana data into broader context. She can cross-reference a metric spike in Grafana with a recent GitHub deployment, or check if a Sentry error surge aligns with the latency increase you're seeing on your dashboard.

Who uses Carly with Grafana

On-call engineers who need fast metric checks without navigating through dashboard folders. Engineering managers who want a quick infrastructure pulse before standups without opening Grafana. SRE teams monitoring multiple services who need alert summaries across all their dashboards. Platform engineers managing Grafana for their organization who want faster data source health checks and dashboard status reports.

See it in action

Mail

Grafana — morning infrastructure check 2 messages

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You 7:45 AM

To: Carly

Carly, can you pull the current status of our Grafana alerts? Also grab the p99 latency and error rate for the payments service from the production overview dashboard for the last 6 hours.

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Carly 7:46 AM

To: You

Here's your morning infrastructure check from Grafana: **Alert Summary** • 1 firing: "High Memory Usage — worker-pool-3" — triggered at 3:22 AM, memory at 91.4% • 2 resolved overnight: - "Elevated Error Rate — auth-service" — fired 11:14 PM, resolved 11:38 PM - "Slow Query — reporting-db" — fired 1:05 AM, resolved 1:12 AM • All other alerts: OK **Payments Service (last 6 hours)** • p99 latency: 185ms (stable, normal range is 150–220ms) • Error rate: 0.12% — down from 0.18% yesterday • Request volume: 42.3K requests The worker-pool-3 memory alert is still active — it's been above 90% since 3 AM. Want me to check if anything changed in the deployment pipeline, or pull the full memory trend for that node?

How to connect Grafana to Carly

1

Sign up for Carly

Create your account in under 2 minutes.

2

Connect Grafana

Authorize the Grafana integration from your Carly dashboard. One click, and you're connected.

3

Start giving instructions

Email or text Carly with what you need done in Grafana. She handles the rest.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best AI tool for Grafana?

Carly is an AI assistant that connects to Grafana and lets you check dashboard metrics, review alert statuses, pull panel data, and monitor data source health — all by email or text. She works from outside the Grafana UI so you can query your observability data without logging in.

Can AI pull metrics from Grafana dashboards?

Yes. With Carly, you email or text a request like "pull the p99 latency from my production dashboard" and Carly queries Grafana and sends you the current value, trend, and context. No dashboard login required.

How does Carly connect to Grafana?

Go to your Carly dashboard, click Connect next to Grafana, and provide your Grafana instance URL and API key. Once connected, Carly can query dashboards, check alert statuses, and monitor data source health across your entire Grafana setup.

Can Carly summarize Grafana alerts?

Yes. Ask Carly for your alert summary and she lists every firing, pending, and recently resolved alert — with timestamps, severity levels, and the metric values that triggered them. Useful for morning check-ins and incident reviews.

Can Carly check Grafana data source health?

Yes. Ask Carly about any data source — Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elasticsearch, or others — and she reports whether it's reachable, responding normally, and returning data. Helpful for diagnosing dashboard gaps or query failures.

Is Carly different from Grafana's built-in alerting?

Yes. Grafana alerting notifies you when thresholds are breached based on rules you configure. Carly is an on-demand assistant you email or text anytime — she gives you metric values, alert summaries, and data source health checks whenever you ask, not just when a rule fires.

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