--- title: "Connect Grafana to Apify - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Dashboard\" fires in Grafana, your agent runs \"Run Task\" in Apify. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-apify" --- # Connect Grafana to Apify When **New Dashboard** fires in [Grafana](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana), your agent runs **Run Task** in [Apify](https://apiant.ai/connections/apify). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grafana **1** trigger Grafana **24** actions Apify **20** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Grafana and Apify to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Grafana can start in Apify - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Run Task** in Apify - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Set Key-Value Store Record** in Apify Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with Grafana and Apify ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 44 actions - Trigger **New Dashboard** Triggers when a new dashboard is created in your Grafana instance. - Action **Add Team Member** Adds an existing Grafana user to a team. - Action **Create Alert Rule** Creates a Grafana-managed alert rule (or recording rule) in a folder and rule group, and returns the new rule. - Action **Create Annotation** Creates an annotation in Grafana, either on a specific dashboard panel or as an organization-wide annotation. Supports point-in-time and region annotations with tags. - Action **Create Folder** Creates a new folder in Grafana, optionally nested under a parent folder. - Action **Create or Update Dashboard** Creates a new dashboard or updates an existing one from a complete dashboard model, optionally placing it in a folder and recording a version-history message. - Action **Create Team** Creates a new team in your Grafana organization with a name and optional email. - Action **Delete Alert Rule** Deletes a Grafana-managed alert rule or recording rule by its UID. - Action **Delete Annotation** Deletes an annotation from Grafana by its id. - Action **Delete Dashboard** Deletes a dashboard from your Grafana instance by its unique identifier. - Action **Delete Folder** Deletes a Grafana folder along with all dashboards and alerts stored in it. - Action **Find Annotations** Returns annotations matching the given time range, dashboard, panel, user, alert, type or tags. - Action **Find Teams** Finds teams in your Grafana organization by name or partial name. - Action **Get Alert Rule** Returns a single Grafana-managed alert rule or recording rule by its UID, including its queries, labels, annotations and folder. - Action **Get Annotation** Returns a single annotation by its id, including its text, tags, time range and the dashboard and panel it belongs to. - Action **Get Dashboard** Returns a Grafana dashboard, including its full dashboard model and metadata such as its folder and URL, given the dashboard's unique identifier. - Action **Get Data Source** Returns a single Grafana data source, including its type, URL, access mode and settings, looked up by its UID. - Action **Get Folder** Returns a Grafana folder by its UID, including its title and parent folder. - Action **Get Team** Returns a Grafana team's details (name, email, organization, created and updated times) by its ID. - Action **List Data Sources** Returns all data sources configured in your Grafana organization, with their names, types and connection settings. - Action **List Folders** Returns all folders in your Grafana organization that you have permission to view, with each folder's UID, title and parent folder. - Action **Remove Team Member** Removes a user from a Grafana team. - Action **Update Alert Rule** Updates an existing Grafana alert or recording rule, replacing its title, queries, condition, labels and other settings. - Action **Update Annotation** Updates the text, tags, or time range of an existing annotation. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Folder** Updates an existing folder's title, or moves it under a different parent folder. - Action **Abort Actor build** Aborts an Actor build that is starting or running and returns the build's details. Builds that already finished, failed, timed out or are aborting are left unchanged. - Action **Abort Actor run** Aborts a running or starting Apify Actor run and returns the run's details, including its updated status. Runs that already finished, failed or timed out are left unchanged. - Action **Add dataset items** Appends one or more items to the end of an Apify dataset. - Action **Add request to request queue** Adds a URL request to an Apify request queue, or returns the existing request if one with the same unique key is already queued. - Action **Delete key-value store record** Deletes a record, identified by its key, from an Apify key-value store. - Action **Fetch Dataset Items** Returns all items stored in an Apify dataset, such as the results scraped by an Actor run, with optional field selection and cleanup. - Action **Find Last Actor Run** Returns the most recent run of an Actor, optionally limited to runs with a given status or started a given way, including its status, timing and the ids of its default dataset and key-value store. - Action **Find Last Task Run** Returns the most recent run of an Apify Actor task, optionally limited to runs with a given status or origin. - Action **Get Actor** Returns all the details of an Apify Actor, including its versions, default run options, statistics and pricing. - Action **Get Actor run** Returns the details of one Actor run, including its status, timing, statistics, costs and the IDs of its default dataset, key-value store and request queue. Can optionally wait up to 60 seconds for the run to finish. - Action **Get Key-Value Store Record** Returns the value stored under a key in an Apify key-value store, such as an Actor run's output or input record. - Action **Get task** Returns the details of an Apify Actor task, including its saved input, run options, and run statistics. - Action **List Actor runs** Returns the runs of one of your Apify Actors, with each run's status, start and finish times, cost and the IDs of its default dataset and key-value store. Can be filtered by status and start date. - Action **List Actors** Returns the Actors you created or have used in your Apify account, with each Actor's ID, name, owner username, title and usage stats. - Action **List datasets** Returns the datasets in your Apify account, with each dataset's id, name, item count and timestamps. - Action **List tasks** Returns the Actor tasks you have created or used, with each task's id, name, Actor and run stats. - Action **Run Actor** Starts a run of an Apify Actor with the input you provide and returns the new run, including its status and the IDs of its default dataset and key-value store. - Action **Run Task** Starts a run of one of your saved Apify Actor tasks, optionally overriding parts of its input, and returns the new run with its status and storage IDs. - Action **Scrape Single URL** Scrapes one web page with Apify's Website Content Crawler and returns its cleaned text, Markdown, title and metadata. Waits for the scrape to finish (up to 5 minutes). - Action **Set Key-Value Store Record** Saves a value under a key in an Apify key-value store, replacing any existing record with the same key. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grafana** Grafana offers application analytics visualization services and features graphing, styling, template...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana) - [ **Apify** Apify is a full-stack platform where developers build, deploy, and monitor web scraping tools.](https://apiant.ai/connections/apify) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Grafana - [ **Grafana to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-hubspot) - [ **Grafana to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-salesforce) - [ **Grafana to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-slack) - [ **Grafana to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-mailchimp) - [ **Grafana to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-stripe) - [ **Grafana to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-shopify) ## More into Apify - [ **HubSpot to Apify** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-apify) - [ **Salesforce to Apify** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-apify) - [ **Slack to Apify** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-apify) - [ **Google Sheets to Apify** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-apify) - [ **Gmail to Apify** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-apify) - [ **Google Calendar to Apify** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-apify) Questions ## Grafana and Apify, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Grafana? Any of Grafana's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Dashboard. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Apify when something happens in Grafana? Any of Apify's 20 actions, including Abort Actor build, Abort Actor run, Add dataset items and Add request to request queue. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Apify to Grafana? Apify has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Grafana. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Apify's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or Apify? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use Grafana and Apify without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.