--- title: "Connect Grafana and inFlow Inventory - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Dashboard\" fires in Grafana, your agent runs \"Create a Sales Order\" in inFlow Inventory." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-inflow-inventory" --- # Connect Grafana and inFlow Inventory When **New Dashboard** fires in [Grafana](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana), your agent runs **Create a Sales Order** in [inFlow Inventory](https://apiant.ai/connections/inflow-inventory), or **New or Updated Customer** in inFlow Inventory to **Add Team Member** in Grafana. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grafana **1** trigger Grafana **24** actions inFlow Inventory **10** triggers inFlow Inventory **68** 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 inFlow Inventory 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 and inFlow Inventory can do together ### From Grafana to inFlow Inventory - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Create a Sales Order** in inFlow Inventory - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Create Customer** in inFlow Inventory ### From inFlow Inventory to Grafana - When **New or Updated Customer** in inFlow Inventory then **Add Team Member** in Grafana - When **New or Updated Manufacturing Order** in inFlow Inventory then **Create Alert Rule** in Grafana 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 inFlow Inventory ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 92 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. - Trigger **New or Updated Customer** Triggers when a customer is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Manufacturing Order** Triggers when a manufacturing order is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Purchase Order** Triggers when a purchase order is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Purchase Quote** Triggers when a purchase quote is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Sales Order** Triggers when a sales order is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Sales Quote** Triggers when a sales quote is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Stock Adjustment** Triggers when a stock adjustment is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Stock Count** Triggers when a stock count is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Stock Transfer** Triggers when a stock transfer is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Vendor** Triggers when a vendor is created or updated. - Action **Approve Purchase Order** Approves an existing purchase order in inFlow, the same as clicking Approve in the inFlow app, and returns the updated purchase order. - Action **Convert Purchase Quote to Purchase Order** Converts a purchase quote into a purchase order, the same as the Convert to order action in inFlow. - Action **Convert Sales Quote to Sales Order** Converts an inFlow sales quote into a sales order, the same as the Convert to order action in inFlow. - Action **Create a Product** Creates a new product in inFlow Inventory. - Action **Create a Sales Order** Creates a new sales order (or sales quote) in inFlow for a customer, with optional product lines, addresses and custom fields. - Action **Create a Stock Adjustment** Creates a stock adjustment - Action **Create a Stock Count** Creates a stock count - Action **Create a Stock Count Sheet** Creates a new stock count sheet. - Action **Create a Stock Transfer** Creates a stock transfer - Action **Create a Vendor** Creates a vendor - Action **Create Customer** Creates a customer - Action **Create Manufacturing Order** Creates a new manufacturing order - Action **Create Purchase Order** Creates a purchase order - Action **Find a Adjustment Reason** Finds adjustment reasons in inFlow Inventory by name. - Action **Find a Category** Finds categories whose name contains the text you enter and returns the first match plus every match. - Action **Find a Count Sheet** Looks up an inFlow count sheet by its ID. - Action **Find a Custom Document** Finds inFlow records of the document type you choose (customers, vendors, products, sales orders, purchase orders and more) whose chosen field matches a value. Returns the first match plus every match on the first page. - Action **Find a Customer** Returns the inFlow customers that match the given criteria (name, email, phone, address and more). - Action **Find a Location** Returns up to 100 inFlow locations whose name contains the given text. - Action **Find a Manufacturing Order** Finds manufacturing orders in inFlow by order number, status, dates, location or assignee. Returns every match plus the first matching order. - Action **Find a Payment Term** Finds payment terms in inFlow whose name contains the given text. - Action **Find a Pricing Scheme** Returns the pricing schemes whose name contains the specified text. - Action **Find a Product** Returns up to 100 inFlow products matching the name, barcode, description, smart search text or other filters supplied. - Action **Find a Purchase Order** Finds purchase orders by order number or other filters and returns the matches. - Action **Find a Sales Order** Search for the details of a sales order by a Sales Order ID or Sales Order Number. - Action **Find a Stock Adjustment** Search for the details of a Stock Adjustment by a Stock Adjustment ID or Stock Adjustment Number. - Action **Find a Stock Count** Search for the details of a Stock Count by a Stock Count ID or Stock Count Number. - Action **Find a Stockroom Scan** Finds stockroom scans by scan number. inFlow has deprecated this endpoint; newer scans are recorded as stock adjustments. - Action **Find a Stock Transfer** Search for the details of a Stock Transfer by a Stock Transfer ID or Stock Transfer Number. - Action **Find a Taxing Scheme** Search for the details of a taxing scheme by Name. - Action **Find a Vendor** Finds inFlow vendors matching name, contact, email, phone, address or other filters, returning the first match and the full list. - Action **Find or Create a Customer Document** Finds a customer whose name exactly matches the given name; if none exists, creates one with the supplied details. Returns the customer record either way. - Action **Find or Create a Manufacturing Order Document** Searches for a manufacturing order document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Product** Returns the product with exactly the given name, creating it first if no such product exists. - Action **Find or Create a Purchase Order Document** Searches for a purchase order document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Sales Order Document** Looks up a sales order by its order number and returns it; if no order has that number, creates a new sales order with it. - Action **Find or Create a Stock Adjustment Document** Searches for a stock adjustment document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Stock Count Document** Searches for a stock count document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Stock Transfer Document** Searches for a stock transfer document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Vendor** Searches for a vendor by ID or name and creates a new vendor if it doesn't exist. - Action **Find or Create a Vendor Document** Searches for a vendor document by document type. - Action **Find or Create Customer** Finds a customer by exact name; if none exists, creates one with the supplied details. - Action **Find or Create Customer by Email** Looks up an inFlow customer by exact email address and returns it; if none exists, creates a new customer with that email. - Action **Find or Create Vendor by Email** Searches for a vendor by Email and/or name and creates a new vendor if it doesn't exist. - Action **Fulfill Purchase Order** Marks every line of a purchase order as received and adds the corresponding stock, the same as the Fulfill button in inFlow. - Action **Fulfill Sales Order** Quick-fulfills a sales order in one step. - Action **Invoice Sales Order** Quick-invoices a sales order. - Action **List Customers** Returns all customers in the inFlow account, with pagination. - Action **List Locations** Lists the locations (warehouses, stores) in your inFlow account. - Action **List Manufacturing Orders** Lists manufacturing orders in inFlow, optionally filtered by number, status, dates, location or assignee. Returns up to 100 orders. - Action **List Products** Lists products in inFlow, optionally filtered by name, description, barcode, type, category, lot tracking, modification date or a smart search. Returns up to 100 products. - Action **List Purchase Orders** Returns all purchase orders, with pagination. - Action **List Sales Orders** Returns all sales orders, with pagination. - Action **List Stock Counts** Returns all stock counts, with pagination. - Action **List Vendors** Returns all vendors in the inFlow account, with pagination. - Action **Pay Sales Order** Marks an inFlow sales order as paid, the same as the Mark paid button in inFlow. - Action **Ship Sales Order** Marks a sales order as quick-shipped (final fulfillment step). - Action **Update a Manufacturing Order** Updates an existing manufacturing order by ID. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update a Product** Updates a product given their ID. - Action **Update a Purchase Order** Updates an existing purchase order in inFlow by ID. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update a Sales Order** Updates a sales order given their ID. - Action **Update a Stock Adjustment** Updates a stock adjustment given their ID. - Action **Update a Stock Count** Updates a stock count given their ID. - Action **Update a Stock Count Sheet** Updates a stock count sheet. - Action **Update a Stockroom Scan** Updates a stockroom scan in inFlow. inFlow marks this endpoint deprecated; new scans are stored as stock adjustments. - Action **Update a Stock Transfer** Updates a stock transfer given their ID. - Action **Update Customer** Updates a customer given their ID. - Action **Update Vendor** Updates an existing vendor by ID. Fields left blank keep their current values. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grafana** Grafana offers application analytics visualization services and features graphing, styling, template...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana) - [ **inFlow Inventory** inFlow Inventory is an inventory and order management system for businesses that outgrow spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connections/inflow-inventory) 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 inFlow Inventory - [ **HubSpot to inFlow Inventory** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Google Sheets to inFlow Inventory** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Gmail to inFlow Inventory** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Google Calendar to inFlow Inventory** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Google Drive to inFlow Inventory** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **ActiveCampaign to inFlow Inventory** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-inflow-inventory) Questions ## Grafana and inFlow Inventory, 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 inFlow Inventory when something happens in Grafana? Any of inFlow Inventory's 68 actions, including Create a Product, Create a Sales Order, Create a Stock Adjustment and Create a Stock Count. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from inFlow Inventory to Grafana? Yes. When something happens in inFlow Inventory, your agent can act in Grafana too. This page covers both directions: inFlow Inventory's triggers and Grafana's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or inFlow Inventory? 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 inFlow Inventory 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.