Grafana agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and RevampKey

5 ready-made playbooks that teach an AI agent how to do real Grafana work: which tools to call, what to check first, and when to stop and ask you.

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All 5 Grafana skills

Each skill is one job. You ask in plain words and the agent loads the skill that matches, then follows its steps.

Start hereAsks before writing22 Grafana tools

Use the Grafana MCP server safely

Sets the ground rules for working with Grafana through the MCP server: confirm the instance, org and permissions, pick the right tool, keep queries small, and ask before any change.

Use it when

You have just connected Grafana and want to know what the assistant can see
A Grafana task is about to start and you want to confirm the right instance and org first
You need to know which tools change Grafana and which only read it

Tools it uses

check_datasources_health
get_current_oncall_users
get_dashboard_by_uid
get_alert_group
get_annotation_tags
get_dashboard_panel_queries
find_error_pattern_logs
find_slow_requests
diff_tempo_traces
analyze_loki_labels
alerting_manage_rules
alerting_manage_silences
alerting_manage_routing
create_incident
add_activity_to_incident
generate_deeplink
create_annotation
delete_annotation
create_snapshot
delete_snapshot
create_datasource
create_folder

Example

Before we look at the checkout alerts, confirm which Grafana we are on and what this token can read.

We are connected to the production Grafana, org 'Platform', with a read-only view of 14 dashboards and all 6 datasources. The write tools are available, so I will ask before changing anything. Two datasources returned no data for the last hour, so I will check those before trusting empty results.

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Asks before writing6 Grafana tools

Audit Grafana alert rules, silences and routing

Reviews alert rules, silences and notification routing for staleness, noise and misrouting, then proposes changes. It reads first and asks before changing any rule or silence.

Use it when

Cleaning up noisy or unused alert rules after a quarter of pages nobody acted on
Checking whether old silences are still needed before they hide a real problem
Confirming critical alerts route to a team that is actually on call

Tools it uses

alerting_manage_rules
alerting_manage_routing
alerting_manage_silences
check_datasources_health
analyze_loki_labels
get_current_oncall_users

Example

Audit our Grafana alert rules and silences for the payments folder, and tell me which ones are noisy or no longer needed.

I read 46 rules in the payments folder and 5 active silences. 7 rules are noisy: they flap several times an hour and resolve within two minutes with no action. 2 silences have no comment and no expiry, and one of them still matches a live service. I've made no changes; each proposal below needs your yes before I apply it.

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Read-only3 Grafana tools

Review Grafana dashboard panels and queries

Audits a Grafana dashboard's panels and their queries, checks the datasources behind them, and reports broken, duplicated or expensive panels. It is read-only and changes nothing.

Use it when

A dashboard has been showing No data and you want to know why
You want a periodic quality check on a team's shared dashboards
You suspect some panels are duplicated or running heavy queries

Tools it uses

get_dashboard_by_uid
get_dashboard_panel_queries
check_datasources_health

Example

Review the Checkout Service dashboard. Are any panels broken, duplicated or expensive?

Checkout Service has 14 panels across 2 datasources, and one datasource is failing its health check. That single failure accounts for 4 panels showing No data, so I have grouped them as one high-priority finding. I also found 2 duplicate latency panels and 1 panel running a 30-day range at a 10-second refresh. I made no changes.

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Asks before writing13 Grafana tools

Triage an active Grafana incident

Walks through a live Grafana incident: confirms the firing alert group and on-call owner, correlates error and slow-request patterns, and drafts timeline entries. It asks before writing anything to the incident.

Use it when

An alert has paged you and you need to know what is failing
You want to know who is on call right now and what they are seeing
Users report errors and you need to find the pattern in logs and traces

Tools it uses

get_alert_group
get_current_oncall_users
find_error_pattern_logs
find_slow_requests
analyze_loki_labels
check_datasources_health
diff_tempo_traces
get_dashboard_by_uid
get_dashboard_panel_queries
add_activity_to_incident
create_annotation
create_incident
generate_deeplink

Example

The checkout alert has been firing for 40 minutes. Who is on call, and what errors are we seeing?

The checkout latency alert has been firing for 40 minutes. The on-call owner is the payments-platform primary on the weekday schedule. Error logs show one dominant signature, a connection timeout to the payments database, concentrated in two of the six pods. I have drafted an activity entry and an annotation at the first timeout spike. Shall I write them?

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Asks before writing7 Grafana tools

Annotate changes on Grafana graphs with AI

Records deployments, rollouts and manual changes as Grafana annotations with consistent tags, so every graph shows a change timeline. It confirms the dashboard, time and timezone and asks before writing anything.

Use it when

A deploy went out and the team wants it visible on the service dashboard
A config or feature flag change needs a record on the latency panels
A rollback needs its own marker tied back to the original deploy

Tools it uses

get_annotations
get_annotation_tags
get_dashboard_by_uid
get_dashboard_panel_queries
generate_deeplink
create_annotation
delete_annotation

Example

Mark the payments-api 2.14.3 deploy at 14:05 UTC on the payments service dashboard, tagged prod and deploy.

Here is what I will write, nothing is saved yet. Dashboard: Payments Service (latency and error panels). Time: 14:05 UTC today. Text: "payments-api 2.14.3: new retry policy (CHG-482)". Tags: payments-api, deploy, prod. Existing annotations near that time: none found. Reply yes to create it and I will read it back to confirm the tag filter finds it.

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How Grafana skills work

Connect Grafana
The Grafana MCP server gives the agent its tools.
Ask in plain words
“Audit our Grafana alert rules and silences for the payments folder, and tell me which ones are noisy or no longer needed.” Each SKILL.md says when it applies, so only the one that fits is loaded.
Approve any change
The agent calls the tools in order, checks its work, and shows you any change before it makes it.

How to install Grafana skills

In RevampKey the skills install themselves when you connect Grafana. In other tools each skill is one folder with a SKILL.md file, and you also need the Grafana MCP server connected there.

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for s in essentials alert-rule-and-silence-audit dashboard-panel-query-review incident-response-triage observability-change-annotation; do curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/grafana-mcp-server-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/grafana-mcp-server/skills/$s/SKILL.md done
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Into this project’s .claude/skills folder

Connect the Grafana MCP server in Claude Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials alert-rule-and-silence-audit dashboard-panel-query-review incident-response-triage observability-change-annotation; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/grafana-mcp-server-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/grafana-mcp-server/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Audit our Grafana alert rules and silences for the payments folder, and tell me which ones are noisy or no longer needed.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Grafana MCP server in Cursor.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials alert-rule-and-silence-audit dashboard-panel-query-review incident-response-triage observability-change-annotation; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/grafana-mcp-server-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/grafana-mcp-server/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Audit our Grafana alert rules and silences for the payments folder, and tell me which ones are noisy or no longer needed.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Grafana MCP server in Codex.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials alert-rule-and-silence-audit dashboard-panel-query-review incident-response-triage observability-change-annotation; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/grafana-mcp-server-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/grafana-mcp-server/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Audit our Grafana alert rules and silences for the payments folder, and tell me which ones are noisy or no longer needed.”

Into the shared .agents/skills folder

Connect the Grafana MCP server in VS Code.

Run this in your project folder to add all 5 skills:

for s in essentials alert-rule-and-silence-audit dashboard-panel-query-review incident-response-triage observability-change-annotation; do
  curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .agents/skills/grafana-mcp-server-$s/SKILL.md https://revampkey.com/marketplace/grafana-mcp-server/skills/$s/SKILL.md
done

Ask in plain language, for example “Audit our Grafana alert rules and silences for the payments folder, and tell me which ones are noisy or no longer needed.”

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Grafana skills FAQ

What is a Grafana agent skill?

A SKILL.md file: a short playbook an AI agent loads when your request matches it. Each Grafana skill describes one job, which Grafana tools to use in which order, what to check first and when to stop and ask you.

Do the Grafana skills change anything on their own?

1 of the 5 only read. The others tell the agent to show you the change and wait for a yes before it creates, edits or deletes anything in Grafana.

Which tools can use these skills?

Any agent that reads the open Agent Skills format: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code with Copilot and RevampKey. In RevampKey they are attached when you connect Grafana; elsewhere you copy the folders into your project or skills directory.

Do I need the Grafana MCP server too?

Yes. The skills tell the agent how to do the work; the Grafana MCP server gives it the tools to do it. The Grafana MCP setup guide covers every client.

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All 5 Grafana skills

Use the Grafana MCP server safely

Use it when

Tools it uses

Audit Grafana alert rules, silences and routing

Use it when

Tools it uses

Review Grafana dashboard panels and queries

Use it when

Tools it uses

Triage an active Grafana incident

Use it when

Tools it uses

Annotate changes on Grafana graphs with AI

Use it when

Tools it uses

Get all 5 without copying a file

How Grafana skills work

How to install Grafana skills

RevampKey or copy the files?

In RevampKey

Copy into your project

Grafana skills FAQ

Put Grafana’s best workflows in your agent

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