grafana/gcx
A CLI for managing Grafana and Grafana Cloud resources. Optimized for agentic usage.
Build with Backblaze B2
SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 14 days ago, with 119 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a CLI tool to manage Grafana and Grafana Cloud resources including dashboards, alerts, SLOs, metrics, logs, and traces.
- Enables seamless integration with agentic coding environments and AI assistants for automated investigation, fixing, and observability workflows.
- Use for automating alert investigation and remediation workflows directly from your terminal or editor with AI assistant integration.
- Use for managing Grafana resources via GitOps workflows by pulling, editing, validating, and pushing dashboards and alert rules as code.
- Use for querying and visualizing production metrics, logs, and traces interactively in terminal environments without leaving your development workflow.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Grafana — in your terminal and your agentic coding environment. gcx works with Grafana Cloud, Enterprise, and OSS (Grafana 12+). See the compatibility matrix for details.
Query production. Investigate alerts. Let the Assistant root-cause issues. Ship fixes with observability built in. Without leaving your editor.
"Don't guess. Check the actual production data."
gcx is a CLI for Grafana — Cloud, Enterprise, and OSS alike. It gives you and your AI coding agent structured access to your Grafana instance: dashboards, alerts, SLOs, metrics, logs, traces, and more. Core features (resources, alerting, signal queries) work on any Grafana 12+; Grafana Cloud adds product-specific commands on top.
gcx works with any agentic coding tool. It ships with a suite of agent skills for common workflows like alert investigation, dashboard creation and GitOps, SLO management, and observability setup - ready to use out of the box.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+263 stars over 82 days across 13 snapshot days; best day +7 on Sep 20.
Forks
64+20
Open issues
342+93
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| mattpocock/skills | 315.4K | +8.7K | 35 | 7 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| obra/superpowers | 313.1K | +4.5K | 53 | 2 days ago |
| Panniantong/Agent-Reach | 109.3K | +3.0K | 60 | 4 days ago |
| grafana/gcx | 816 | — | 64 | 14 days ago |
| Category median | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | — |
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