--- title: "Connect Grafana to Mailsoftly - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Dashboard\" fires in Grafana, your agent runs \"Add contact list\" in Mailsoftly." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-mailsoftly" --- # Connect Grafana to Mailsoftly When **New Dashboard** fires in [Grafana](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana), your agent runs **Add contact list** in [Mailsoftly](https://apiant.ai/connections/mailsoftly). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grafana **1** trigger Grafana **24** actions Mailsoftly **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 Mailsoftly 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 Mailsoftly - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Add contact list** in Mailsoftly - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Add contact note** in Mailsoftly 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 Mailsoftly ## 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 **Add contact list** Creates a new, empty contact list in Mailsoftly with the name you give it and returns the new list's id. - Action **Add contact note** Writes a plain-text note on a Mailsoftly contact, visible to the whole team on the contact record. Optionally backdates the note to when the conversation happened. - Action **Add Global Unsubscribe** Globally unsubscribes an email address from all email campaigns and newsletters in the account, creating the contact if it does not exist yet. - Action **Add or update contact** Creates a new contact in Mailsoftly, or updates the existing contact with the same email address (or the given contact ID). - Action **Add Tag to Contact** Adds a tag to a contact, either an existing tag or one found or created by name. - Action **Add to Contact List** Adds an existing contact to an existing contact list. If the contact is already on the list, it returns an informational message instead of an error. - Action **Add to Suppression List** Adds an email address to your Mailsoftly suppression list so no further mail from the account goes to it, creating a contact for the address if none exists. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact in your Mailsoftly account and returns the saved contact, including its new ID. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a contact tag in Mailsoftly, or returns the existing tag when one with the same name already exists. - Action **Delete contact** Permanently deletes a contact from Mailsoftly, along with its list memberships, tags and activity. - Action **Find contacts** Returns the contacts that exactly match the email address, first name and/or last name you supply. - Action **Get contact** Returns one contact by its id, with all of its details including address, company, subscription dates and custom fields. - Action **Get Contact Activity** Returns one contact's activity timeline, newest first: list and subscription events, campaign emails with their opens and clicks, and teammate notes. - Action **Get Contact Subscriptions** Returns one contact's email subscription state: whether the address is suppressed or globally unsubscribed, and which email types the contact receives. - Action **List contact lists** Returns all contact lists in your Mailsoftly account with their ids, names and contact counts. - Action **List Contacts in Contact List** Returns the contacts that belong to one contact list, with when each was added to the list. - Action **List Tags** Returns every contact tag in the account with its id, name and color. - Action **Remove contact from contact list** Removes a contact from one of your Mailsoftly contact lists. The contact record and its other list memberships are left untouched. - Action **Remove Tag to Contact** Removes one or more tags from a Mailsoftly contact, by tag or by tag name. The tags stay defined on the account for other contacts. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing Mailsoftly contact. Only the fields you fill in are changed; everything else on the contact keeps its current value. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grafana** Grafana offers application analytics visualization services and features graphing, styling, template...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana) - [ **Mailsoftly** Mailsoftly is a free email marketing tool designed to send personalized emails and newsletters.](https://apiant.ai/connections/mailsoftly) 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 Mailsoftly - [ **Better Stack to Mailsoftly** Better Stack is a tool to provide reliable monitoring with voice calls and beautiful on-call scheduling.](https://apiant.ai/connect/better-stack-to-mailsoftly) - [ **HubSpot to Mailsoftly** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-mailsoftly) - [ **Salesforce to Mailsoftly** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-mailsoftly) - [ **Slack to Mailsoftly** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-mailsoftly) - [ **Google Sheets to Mailsoftly** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-mailsoftly) - [ **Gmail to Mailsoftly** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-mailsoftly) Questions ## Grafana and Mailsoftly, 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 Mailsoftly when something happens in Grafana? Any of Mailsoftly's 20 actions, including Create Contact, Create Tag, Update Contact and Add contact list. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Mailsoftly to Grafana? Mailsoftly has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Grafana. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Mailsoftly's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or Mailsoftly? 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 Mailsoftly 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.