--- title: "Connect Grafana to Drop Cowboy - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Dashboard\" fires in Grafana, your agent runs \"Add note to contact\" in Drop Cowboy." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-drop-cowboy" --- # Connect Grafana to Drop Cowboy When **New Dashboard** fires in [Grafana](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana), your agent runs **Add note to contact** in [Drop Cowboy](https://apiant.ai/connections/drop-cowboy). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grafana **1** trigger Grafana **24** actions Drop Cowboy **24** 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 Drop Cowboy 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 Drop Cowboy - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Add note to contact** in Drop Cowboy - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Add number to do-not-contact list** in Drop Cowboy 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 Drop Cowboy ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 48 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 **Add list** Creates a new, empty contact list in your Drop Cowboy account. - Action **Add note to contact** Adds a note to a Drop Cowboy contact. The note can contain basic HTML. - Action **Add number to do-not-contact list** Adds a phone number (and optionally an email) to the Drop Cowboy do-not-contact list and flags matching contacts as do-not-contact. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag in your Drop Cowboy account that you can then apply to contacts. - Action **Add tag to contact** Adds an existing tag to a contact and returns the contact's tags after the change. - Action **Add task** Opens a new task for a contact in the Drop Cowboy shared inbox. New tasks start open and unread. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact. Returns the deleted contact with its deletion time set. - Action **Delete number from do-not-contact list** Removes a phone number from the do-not-contact list, clears the do-not-contact flag on matching contacts, and returns the entry that was removed. - Action **Find contacts by phone or email** Finds contacts whose phone number or email exactly matches the value you provide. - Action **Find numbers on do-not-contact list** Checks phone numbers or email addresses against the do-not-contact list and returns which of them are listed, with the matching entries. - Action **Find or add contact** Finds a contact by phone number (then email), or creates it if none matches, and returns its contact ID. Optionally adds the contact to a list. - Action **Get balance** Returns your Drop Cowboy account balance in US dollars, including the amount reserved for sends in flight, the spendable amount, and your auto-recharge settings. - Action **Get campaign statistics** Returns delivery totals for one campaign: sent, delivered, failed, pending and billable counts with their rates, plus email engagement counts for email campaigns. - Action **Get contact** Returns one contact by id, including its field values, phone numbers, lists, tags, pinned notes, consent and do-not-contact flags. Fails if no contact has that id. - Action **List campaigns** Returns the campaigns on your Drop Cowboy account, optionally narrowed by name, status or type. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts on your account, optionally narrowed by list, search text, disposition, owner or brand. - Action **List lists** Returns the contact lists in your Drop Cowboy account, each with its name, brand, owner and contact count. You can filter by name or brand and choose the sort order. - Action **List media files** Returns the playable media files on your Drop Cowboy account, newest first, including whether each is approved for API sends. - Action **Send AI call** Places one outbound call handled by a published AI agent to a phone number or contact. The call is queued and its outcome is reported later by Drop Cowboy. - Action **Send email** Sends an email from one of your Drop Cowboy sending mailboxes to an email address or an existing contact. - Action **Send Mimic AI™ Voicemail** Sends a ringless voicemail spoken from your text in a Mimic AI™ (text-to-speech or cloned) voice, to a phone number or an existing contact. - Action **Send SMS** Sends a text message (SMS, MMS with media, or RCS with a template) to a phone number or an existing contact. The send is queued; its outcome arrives later on status webhooks. - Action **Send voice broadcast** Queues a Press-1 voice broadcast call to one phone number or contact, playing one message to a live person and another to an answering machine. The outcome arrives later on the status webhook. - Action **Send Voicemail** Queues a ringless voicemail to a phone number or contact, using an uploaded audio file or text to speech. Returns the queued message id; the delivery result arrives later on the status webhook. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grafana** Grafana offers application analytics visualization services and features graphing, styling, template...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana) - [ **Drop Cowboy** Drop Cowboy is a Ringless Voicemail and SMS Marketing platform built to automate communication processes for...](https://apiant.ai/connections/drop-cowboy) 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 Drop Cowboy - [ **HubSpot to Drop Cowboy** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Salesforce to Drop Cowboy** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Slack to Drop Cowboy** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Google Sheets to Drop Cowboy** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Gmail to Drop Cowboy** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Google Calendar to Drop Cowboy** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-drop-cowboy) Questions ## Grafana and Drop Cowboy, 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 Drop Cowboy when something happens in Grafana? Any of Drop Cowboy's 24 actions, including Send AI call, Send email, Send Mimic AI™ Voicemail and Send SMS. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Drop Cowboy to Grafana? Drop Cowboy has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Grafana. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Drop Cowboy's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or Drop Cowboy? 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 Drop Cowboy 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.