--- title: "Connect Grafana and Publer - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Dashboard\" fires in Grafana, your agent runs \"Create Post\" in Publer, or \"New Draft\" in Publer to \"Add Team Member\" in Grafana." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/grafana-to-publer" --- # Connect Grafana and Publer When **New Dashboard** fires in [Grafana](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana), your agent runs **Create Post** in [Publer](https://apiant.ai/connections/publer), or **New Draft** in Publer 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 Publer **16** triggers Publer **14** 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 Publer 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 Publer can do together ### From Grafana to Publer - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Create Post** in Publer - When **New Dashboard** in Grafana then **Auto Schedule Post** in Publer ### From Publer to Grafana - When **New Draft** in Publer then **Add Team Member** in Grafana - When **New Media Uploaded** in Publer 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 Publer ## Triggers and actions 17 triggers · 38 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 **Account Connected/Disconnected** Triggers when a social media account is newly connected to the selected Publer workspace. - Trigger **Member Performance Spike** Triggers when a workspace member's posting activity or engagement metrics change for the chosen date range. - Trigger **New Draft** Triggers when a new draft post is saved in your Publer workspace. - Trigger **New Media Uploaded** Triggers when a new media item is added to your Publer media library. - Trigger **Post Approved** Triggers when a scheduled post is approved in your Publer workspace. - Trigger **Post Created** Triggers when a new post is created in your Publer workspace, optionally limited to a post state, account, type, member or search text. - Trigger **Post Failed** Triggers when a Publer post fails to publish. - Trigger **Post Pending Approval** Triggers when a scheduled post is waiting for approval in the Publer workspace. - Trigger **Post Performance Threshold** Triggers when a published post's performance metric (such as reach, likes or engagement) reaches the threshold you set. - Trigger **Post Published** Triggers when a post is published to one of your connected social accounts. - Trigger **Post Scheduled** Triggers when a post is scheduled in your Publer workspace. - Trigger **Post Status Updated** Triggers when a post's status changes, for example from scheduled to published or failed. - Trigger **Top Competitor Posts** Triggers when a new post by one of your tracked competitors appears in Publer's competitor post insights, with its performance analytics. - Trigger **Top Hashtags Identified** Triggers when a hashtag newly enters the top-ranked hashtags (top 10 by the chosen metric) for a Publer social account. - Trigger **Top Posts of Week** Triggers for each of your top-performing posts published in the last 7 days, ranked by engagement (or another metric you choose). - Trigger **Workspace Created** Triggers when a new workspace becomes accessible to the connected Publer user. - Action **Auto Schedule Post** Creates a post and lets Publer automatically pick the best time to publish it within a date window you choose. - Action **Create Post** Creates a social media post in Publer for one or more connected accounts, either scheduled for a specific time or saved as a draft. - Action **Export Analytics Report** Starts a CSV or PDF export of your Publer analytics for the workspace or a single account, and returns the job id used to retrieve the finished file. - Action **Export Competitor Benchmark** Returns benchmark analytics for your competitor accounts — followers, growth, engagement, reach and posting mix — for a date range. - Action **Export Member Leaderboard** Returns each workspace member's posting activity and engagement totals for a date range, for building leaderboards and performance reviews. - Action **Find Analytics by Date Range** Returns published posts with their performance analytics (reach, engagement, likes, comments and more) for a social account within a date range. - Action **Find Media** Searches the Publer media library by name or caption, type, usage status, source or folder and returns the matching media items. - Action **Find Post** Finds posts whose content contains the text you give, optionally narrowed by state, post type, date range, account or team member. - Action **Generate Competitors Top Posts** Returns competitors' posts for a social account within a date range, with their performance analytics, sortable by engagement, reach and other metrics. - Action **Generate Top Hashtags** Returns your top-performing hashtags for a social account, with post counts, reach, engagement totals, recent posts and a hashtag performance score. - Action **Generate Top Posts** Returns your top-performing published posts for a social account over a date range, ranked by a metric such as engagement or reach. - Action **Schedule Recurring Post** Creates a post that Publer publishes repeatedly on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly schedule until an optional end date. - Action **Schedule Recycling Post** Schedules a post that Publer automatically re-shares on a regular cadence, such as every 2 weeks up to 3 times. - Action **Upload Media** Uploads a photo, video or PDF file to Publer and returns the new media item's ID for use in posts. ## Each app on its own - [ **Grafana** Grafana offers application analytics visualization services and features graphing, styling, template...](https://apiant.ai/connections/grafana) - [ **Publer** Publer is a social media management platform that lets you plan, schedule, and analyze posts across multiple...](https://apiant.ai/connections/publer) 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 Publer - [ **HubSpot to Publer** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-publer) - [ **Google Sheets to Publer** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-publer) - [ **Gmail to Publer** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-publer) - [ **Google Calendar to Publer** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-publer) - [ **Google Drive to Publer** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-publer) - [ **Mailchimp to Publer** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-publer) Questions ## Grafana and Publer, 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 Publer when something happens in Grafana? Any of Publer's 14 actions, including Create Post, Upload Media, Auto Schedule Post and Export Analytics Report. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Publer to Grafana? Yes. When something happens in Publer, your agent can act in Grafana too. This page covers both directions: Publer's triggers and Grafana's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Grafana or Publer? 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 Publer 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.