--- title: "Connect Grafana to Microsoft Excel - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Dashboard\" fires in Grafana, your agent runs \"Add Table Row\" in Microsoft Excel." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-microsoft-excel" --- # Connect Grafana to Microsoft Excel When **New Dashboard** fires in [Grafana](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana), your agent runs **Add Table Row** in [Microsoft Excel](https://apiant.ai/connections/microsoft-excel). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Grafana **1** trigger Grafana **24** actions Microsoft Excel **98** 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 Microsoft Excel 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 Microsoft Excel - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Add Table Row** in Microsoft Excel - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Add Named Item** in Microsoft Excel 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 Microsoft Excel ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 122 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 Chart** Add a chart to a worksheet using microsoft graph api. - Action **Add Named Item** Add Named Item - Action **Add Sharepoint Worksheet** Add a new worksheet to a sharepoint excel workbook using microsoft graph sites api. - Action **Add Table** Create a table over a range in an Excel workbook. - Action **Add Table Column** Add a column to a table using microsoft graph api. - Action **Add Table Row** Add a row to a table using microsoft graph api. - Action **Add Workbook Permission** Tool to grant access to a workbook via invite. use when you need to share a specific workbook file with designated recipients and roles. - Action **Add Worksheet** Add a new worksheet to an excel workbook using microsoft graph api. - Action **Apply Table Filter** Apply a filter to a table column using microsoft graph api. - Action **Apply Table Sort** Apply a sort to a table using microsoft graph api. - Action **Autofit Range** Autofit columns or rows intersecting a workbook range. - Action **Calculate Function** Run one allowlisted Microsoft Graph v1.0 workbook function. - Action **Calculate Workbook** Calculate Excel Workbook - Action **Clear Range** Tool to clear values, formats, or contents in a specified worksheet range. use when you need to reset cells before adding new data. - Action **Clear Table Filter** Clear a filter from a table column using microsoft graph api. - Action **Clear Table Filters** Clear All Table Filters - Action **Clear Table Sort** Clear Table Sort - Action **Close Session** Tool to close an existing excel workbook session. use when you need to explicitly end a persistent session to release workbook locks. - Action **Convert Table To Range** Convert a table to a range using microsoft graph api. - Action **Copy Drive Item** Create a non-destructive asynchronous copy of a file or folder. Metadata and permissions are not copied; the new item inherits destination-folder permissions. Version history is copied only when explicitly requested. - Action **Create Folder** Create a folder under a parent Microsoft Graph drive item. - Action **Create Workbook** Create an.xlsx workbook in the user's OneDrive, from a file URL or blank. - Action **Delete Named Item** Permanently delete a workbook-scoped named item; this cannot be undone. - Action **Delete Range** Delete worksheet cells and shift the remaining cells up or left. - Action **Delete Table** Permanently delete an Excel table by its ID or name. - Action **Delete Table Column** Delete a column from a table using microsoft graph api. - Action **Delete Table Row** Delete a row from a table using microsoft graph api. - Action **Delete Worksheet** Tool to delete a worksheet from the workbook. use when cleaning up unused or temporary sheets after verifying no dependencies exist. example: "delete 'sheet2' after review." - Action **Export Workbook To Pdf** Tool to export an Excel workbook to PDF via Microsoft Graph's format conversion. Use when you need a PDF version of an Excel file for sending, storing, or attaching. - Action **Get Application** Get Excel Application - Action **Get Chart** Get chart - Action **Get Chart Axis** Tool to retrieve a specific axis from a chart. use when you need properties like min, max, interval, and formatting of the chart axis. - Action **Get Chart Component** Get chart component - Action **Get Chart Data Labels** Tool to retrieve the data labels object of a chart. use when you need to inspect label settings like position, separator, and visibility flags after creating or updating a chart. - Action **Get Chart Image** Get chart image - Action **Get Chart Legend** Tool to retrieve the legend object of a chart. use after creating or updating a chart when you need to inspect legend visibility and formatting. - Action **Get Chart Point** Get chart point - Action **Get Chart Series** Get chart series - Action **Get Derived Range** Return a range derived from another range by navigation or geometry. - Action **Get Named Item** Retrieve a workbook-scoped named item by exact name. - Action **Get Named Item Range** Get Named Item Range - Action **Get Range** Get a range from a worksheet using microsoft graph api. - Action **Get Range Format** Read one formatting component from a workbook range. - Action **Get Session** Create a session for an excel workbook using microsoft graph api. - Action **Get Sharepoint Range** Get a range from a worksheet in sharepoint using microsoft graph sites api. - Action **Get Sharepoint Worksheet** Get a worksheet by name or id from a sharepoint excel workbook using microsoft graph sites api. - Action **Get Table** Retrieve one workbook- or worksheet-addressed table by ID or exact name. - Action **Get Table Column** Tool to retrieve a specific column from a workbook table. use when you need to fetch column properties and data by its id or name. - Action **Get Table Column Range** Get Table Column Range - Action **Get Table Range** Get Table Range - Action **Get Table Row** Get Table Row - Action **Get Table Row Range** Get Table Row Range - Action **Get Table Sort** Get Table Sort - Action **Get Visible Range** Read cells visible after worksheet filtering. - Action **Get Workbook** Tool to retrieve the properties and relationships of a workbook. use when you need to inspect comments, names, tables, or worksheets. - Action **Get Worksheet** Get a worksheet by name or id from an excel workbook using microsoft graph api. - Action **Get Worksheet Protection** Get Worksheet Protection - Action **Get Worksheet Used Range** Tool to retrieve a worksheet's used range (active data region) without specifying a fixed range address. Use when you need to read all data from a sheet but don't know the exact range. The valuesOnly option helps filter out formatting-only cells. - Action **Insert Range** Tool to insert a new cell range into a worksheet, shifting existing cells down or right. use when you need to create space for new content without overwriting. - Action **List Chart Points** List chart points - Action **List Charts** List charts in a worksheet using microsoft graph api. - Action **List Chart Series** Tool to list all data series in a chart. use when you need to enumerate chart series for further analysis. - Action **List Comments** Tool to list comments in an excel workbook. use when you need to retrieve all workbook comments via microsoft graph api. - Action **List Drive Item Children** Tool to list immediate children (files/folders) of a folder DriveItem using driveId and itemId. Returns an array of child DriveItems with stable identifiers and pagination support. - Action **List Files** List files and folders in a drive root or specified path. - Action **List Named Items** List named items in a workbook using microsoft graph api. - Action **List Sharepoint Tables** List tables in a sharepoint worksheet using microsoft graph sites api. - Action **List Sharepoint Worksheets** List worksheets in an excel workbook stored in sharepoint using microsoft graph sites api. - Action **List Table Columns** List columns in a table using microsoft graph api. - Action **List Table Rows** List rows in a table using microsoft graph api. - Action **List Tables** List tables in a worksheet using microsoft graph api. - Action **List Workbook Permissions** Tool to list permissions set on the workbook file. use when you need to see which users or links have access to a specific excel file by supplying its drive and item ids. example: "list permissions for workbook with drive id 'b!abc123' and item id '0123456789abcdef'." - Action **List Worksheets** List worksheets in an excel workbook using microsoft graph api. - Action **Merge Cells** Merge cells in a worksheet range using microsoft graph api. - Action **Protect Worksheet** Tool to protect a worksheet using optional protection options. use when you need to prevent editing certain parts of a sheet before sharing. example: "protect 'sheet1' to lock formatting and sorting." - Action **Reapply Table Filters** Reapply All Table Filters - Action **Reapply Table Sort** Reapply Table Sort - Action **Refresh Session** Refresh Excel Session - Action **Search Files** Tool to search OneDrive drive items by query to discover Excel workbook IDs. Use when you need to find Excel files by name before performing workbook operations. - Action **Search Microsoft 365 Content** Search OneDrive and SharePoint content using Microsoft Search. - Action **Set Chart Data** Set chart data - Action **Set Chart Position** Set chart position - Action **Sort Range** Sort a range in a worksheet using microsoft graph api. - Action **Unmerge Range** Split a merged worksheet range back into separate cells. - Action **Unprotect Worksheet** Remove protection from a worksheet so it can be edited again. - Action **Update Chart** Update a chart in a worksheet using microsoft graph api. - Action **Update Chart Component** Update chart component - Action **Update Chart Legend** Tool to update formatting or position of a chart legend. use when adjusting legend settings after confirming chart and worksheet exist. - Action **Update Chart Series** Rename one Excel chart series by ID or zero-based collection position. - Action **Update Named Item** Update a workbook named item's visibility or comment. - Action **Update Range** Update a range in a worksheet using microsoft graph api. - Action **Update Range Format** Update exactly one formatting component on a workbook range. - Action **Update Sharepoint Range** Update a range in a sharepoint worksheet using microsoft graph sites api. - Action **Update Table** Update a table in a workbook using microsoft graph api. - Action **Update Table Column** Update Table Column - Action **Update Table Row** Update Table Row - Action **Update Worksheet** Update worksheet properties (name, position) in an excel workbook using microsoft graph api. - Action **Upload Workbook** Tool to upload an external Excel file from a URL into OneDrive/SharePoint. Downloads the file server-side and uploads it to the specified drive location, returning the driveItem metadata for subsequent Excel operations. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grafana** Grafana offers application analytics visualization services and features graphing, styling, template...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana) - [ **Microsoft Excel** Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet application for data analysis, calculations, and visualization...](https://apiant.ai/connections/microsoft-excel) 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. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Microsoft Excel when something happens in Grafana? Any of Microsoft Excel's 98 actions, including Create Folder, Create Workbook, Update Chart and Update Chart Component. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Microsoft Excel to Grafana? Microsoft Excel has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Grafana. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Microsoft Excel's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or Microsoft Excel? 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 Microsoft Excel 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.