First-party app
Grafana

Grafana

Manage dashboards, data sources, annotations, and alert rules on any Grafana instance.

stable Monitoring & Observability

About

Grafana ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 8 actions, 3 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.grafana
Version
0.1.2
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Monitoring & Observability

Overview

Grafana puts a monitoring stack under workflow control — reading and creating dashboards, inspecting configured data sources, dropping an annotation onto a specific panel or the whole board, and auditing what alert rules are currently armed — against a self-hosted, on-prem or Grafana Cloud instance alike, since a team’s own stack can live at any hostname.

Alert rule actions read what is currently configured to fire and under what conditions, useful for auditing an instance’s alerting setup or feeding it into a broader monitoring workflow. Because every Grafana instance’s API looks the same regardless of where it is hosted, the app targets whatever base URL a team’s own instance lives at, so one app definition works against any deployment a team happens to run.

Build with Grafana

Three routes to the same 8 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Grafana's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Get Alert Rule

alert-rule-get

Retrieve a single Grafana-managed alert rule by UID.

List Alert Rules

alert-rule-list

List every Grafana-managed alert rule on this instance.

Create Annotation

annotation-create

Add an annotation, optionally scoped to a dashboard/panel or spanning a time range.

Create or Update Dashboard

dashboard-create-update

Create a new dashboard, or overwrite an existing one by UID.

Get Dashboard

dashboard-get

Retrieve a dashboard by UID, including its full JSON model.

List Dashboards

dashboard-list

Search dashboards by title, tag, or folder.

Get Data Source

datasource-get

Retrieve a single data source by UID.

List Data Sources

datasource-list

List every data source configured on this Grafana instance.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Grafana's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "grafana-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "alert-rule-get",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.grafana",
        "action": "alert-rule-get",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "uid": "<uid>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Get Alert Rule

    read
    alert-rule-get
  • List Alert Rules

    read
    alert-rule-list
  • Create Annotation

    perform
    annotation-create
  • Create or Update Dashboard

    perform
    dashboard-create-update
  • Get Dashboard

    read
    dashboard-get

+3 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Grafana, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Grafana. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "dashboard-create-update",
  payload: {
    dashboard: "<value>",
    // folderUid: "<value>",
    // overwrite: "<value>",
    // message: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action dashboard-create-update --payload '{"dashboard":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Grafana — without giving it Grafana's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.grafana#alert-rule-get",
    "input": {
      "uid": "<uid>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Grafana connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Grafana's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Grafana itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

Request MCP access

Health checks

Grafana declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Grafana platform status

quota

API quota headroom

dependency

Instance reachable

Unauthenticated `GET /api/health` against this connection's endpoint — Grafana's own liveness probe, which needs no credential.