Integration
Connect Grafana and PPM Express
When New Dashboard fires in Grafana, your agent runs Create Project Task in PPM Express, or Idea Created in PPM Express to Add Team Member in Grafana. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
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What do you want Grafana and PPM Express to do together?
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Claude Code
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Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)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.
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Setup guide (opens in a new tab)Zed
Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)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)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.
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What Grafana and PPM Express can do together
From Grafana to PPM Express
When New Dashboard in Grafana
then Create Project Task in PPM Express
From PPM Express to 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 PPM Express
Triggers and actions 9 triggers · 33 actions
- New Dashboard
Triggers when a new dashboard is created in your Grafana instance.
- Add Team Member
Adds an existing Grafana user to a team.
- Create Alert Rule
Creates a Grafana-managed alert rule (or recording rule) in a folder and rule group, and returns the new rule.
- 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.
- Create Folder
Creates a new folder in Grafana, optionally nested under a parent folder.
- 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.
- Create Team
Creates a new team in your Grafana organization with a name and optional email.
- Delete Alert Rule
Deletes a Grafana-managed alert rule or recording rule by its UID.
- Delete Annotation
Deletes an annotation from Grafana by its id.
- Delete Dashboard
Deletes a dashboard from your Grafana instance by its unique identifier.
- Delete Folder
Deletes a Grafana folder along with all dashboards and alerts stored in it.
- Find Annotations
Returns annotations matching the given time range, dashboard, panel, user, alert, type or tags.
- Find Teams
Finds teams in your Grafana organization by name or partial name.
- Get Alert Rule
Returns a single Grafana-managed alert rule or recording rule by its UID, including its queries, labels, annotations and folder.
- Get Annotation
Returns a single annotation by its id, including its text, tags, time range and the dashboard and panel it belongs to.
- 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.
- Get Data Source
Returns a single Grafana data source, including its type, URL, access mode and settings, looked up by its UID.
- Get Folder
Returns a Grafana folder by its UID, including its title and parent folder.
- Get Team
Returns a Grafana team's details (name, email, organization, created and updated times) by its ID.
- List Data Sources
Returns all data sources configured in your Grafana organization, with their names, types and connection settings.
- List Folders
Returns all folders in your Grafana organization that you have permission to view, with each folder's UID, title and parent folder.
- Remove Team Member
Removes a user from a Grafana team.
- Update Alert Rule
Updates an existing Grafana alert or recording rule, replacing its title, queries, condition, labels and other settings.
- Update Annotation
Updates the text, tags, or time range of an existing annotation. Fields left blank keep their current values.
- Update Folder
Updates an existing folder's title, or moves it under a different parent folder.
- Idea Created
Triggers when a Idea is created.
- Key Date Created
Triggers when a Key Date is created.
- Key Date Updated
Triggers when a Key Date is updated.
- Project Created
Triggers when a Project is created.
- Project Updated
Triggers when a Project is updated.
- Task Created
Triggers when a Task is created.
- Task Deleted
Triggers when a Task is deleted.
- Task Updated
Triggers when a Task is updated.
- Create Idea
Creates a new idea in PPM Express, optionally under a challenge, with its name, description and any other idea fields.
- Create Project
Creates a project in PPM Express with the field values you supply, such as name, description, manager, program and portfolio.
- Create Project Key Date
Creates a key date (milestone) on a PPM Express project and returns the new key date.
- Create Project Task
Creates a task in a PPM Express project with the field values you supply.
- Delete Project Task
Deletes a task from a PPM Express project.
- Update Idea
Updates the field values of an existing idea in PPM Express and returns the updated idea.
- Update Project
Updates the fields of an existing project, including custom fields, and returns the updated project.
- Update Project Key Date
Updates the field values of an existing key date in a PPM Express project.
- Update Project Task
Updates field values on an existing task in a PPM Express project and returns the updated task.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Grafana and PPM Express, 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 PPM Express when something happens in Grafana?
Any of PPM Express's 9 actions, including Create Idea, Create Project, Create Project Key Date and Create Project Task. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from PPM Express to Grafana?
Yes. When something happens in PPM Express, your agent can act in Grafana too. This page covers both directions: PPM Express's triggers and Grafana's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or PPM Express?
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 PPM Express 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.