https://rudimartinsen.com/tags/assistant/Recent content in Assistant on rudimartinsen.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 16 Jul 2026 11:13:40 +0200https://rudimartinsen.com/2026/07/16/grafana-assistant-oss/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:13:40 +0200https://rudimartinsen.com/2026/07/16/grafana-assistant-oss/ <p>One of the <a href="https://grafana.com/blog/grafanacon-2026-announcements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcements</a> of this year's GrafanaCON in Barcelona was the availability of <a href="https://grafana.com/blog/grafana-assistant-everywhere/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grafana Assistant also on self-hosted deployments</a>. In this post we'll take a look at how to enable it and test it against a dashboard in my local Grafana instance.</p> <blockquote> <p>Note that at the time of writing there's still a need for a Grafana Cloud connection since the AI magic is performed in the cloud, with Grafana's LLMs. The local Assistant plugin will forward the LLM requests to Grafana cloud and act on the response in the local instance. <img src="https://rudimartinsen.com/img/grafana-assistant-cloud.png" alt="Graphic from grafana.com" loading="lazy" /></p>