Any agent anywhere: How to use Grafana Cloud with Claude, Cursor, and any other AI agent

Grafana Cloud positions itself as an open agentic observability platform that lets engineers access telemetry, alerts, dashboards, and other operational context through their preferred AI tools rather than working exclusively inside Grafana. Its built-in Grafana Assistant supports investigations within Grafana Cloud, while the Grafana Cloud MCP server uses the open Model Context Protocol to connect compatible agents such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Codex to observability data and, through MCP Apps, display interactive Grafana visualizations in conversations. The gcx command-line tool extends this access to coding agents such as Cursor and other shell-capable tools, enabling them to query application services, databases, frontend activity, and user sessions while retaining dashboard context such as filters, queries, and time ranges. The post also describes using an open-source agent in Slack with both MCP and gcx to investigate issues, compare historical data, and report findings with supporting links and suggested next steps, emphasizing flexibility in agent, model, provider, and working environment.

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