Section 1 · Journey overview

Grafana Cloud, Assistant, a supported data source with telemetry for a real service, and permission to create, calibrate, and start Watchers.

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Prerequisites

To complete the hands-on path, you need the following.

RequirementWhy you need it
Grafana Cloud account (Create an account)Watchers need a Grafana Cloud stack.
Grafana Assistant enabledWatchers are an Assistant capability. Accept any required Assistant terms.
A supported data source with telemetry for a real serviceWatchers support Prometheus, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Loki, BigQuery, Infinity, CloudWatch, Synthetic Monitoring, Tempo, and Pyroscope data sources that you can read and query. Assistant builds checks from live telemetry, and queries that return no data can stop calibration. Watcher runs use the stack’s Assistant service account, not your identity. Data sources with team label-based access control (LBAC) rules aren’t supported.
Watchers permissionsgrafana-assistant-app.watcher-agents:read to view, :create and :write together to create a watcher (creating also starts calibration), :write to calibrate, start, and pause, :create to run once, and :delete to delete. You also need plugins.app:access for the Assistant plugin.

Complete setup first

If Assistant isn’t enabled on your stack, complete Get started with Grafana Assistant first.

For the full permission list, refer to Manage Assistant access with RBAC.