Cardinal Desktop Application
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Grafana
Grafana

Grafana

Connect Cardinal Desktop Application to Grafana for querying and analyzing logs, traces, and metrics from Loki, Tempo, and Mimir.

Overview

Grafana is an open-source visualization and monitoring platform. With the Grafana connector, your AI agents can:

  • Query logs stored in Grafana Loki
  • Analyze distributed traces from Grafana Tempo
  • Access metrics from Grafana Mimir
  • Correlate data across logs, traces, and metrics
  • Integrate with your observability stack seamlessly

Connection Details

FieldDescription
Display NameCustom name for this Grafana connection
ServicesConfigure Loki, Tempo, and/or Mimir services
Share credentials(Optional) Share credentials with organization

Prerequisites

  • Grafana instance deployed and running
  • Network access to your Grafana services
  • Grafana Loki, Tempo, and/or Mimir instances configured (optional)
  • Authentication credentials if required

Setup Wizard

Step 1 - Connection Configuration

  1. In Cardinal Desktop Application, go to Connectors and click Browse Connectors
  2. Select Grafana
  3. Enter a Display Name for this Grafana connection
    • Example: Grafana, Prod Observability, Analytics Platform
    • A friendly name to identify this connection

Step 2 - Configure Services

You can add and configure any combination of Grafana services:

Loki Service

  1. Click Add Service and select Loki
  2. Enter your Loki URL
    • Example: https://loki.example.com
    • The full URL to your Loki instance
  3. Select your Authentication method:
    • None - For publicly accessible instances
    • Basic Auth - For username/password authentication
    • Bearer Token - For token-based authentication
  4. (Optional) Enter Grafana Datasource UID
    • Links to Grafana dashboards (for visualization purposes)
  5. (Optional) Enable multi-tenancy if your backend requires X-Scope-OrgID header

Tempo Service

  1. Click Add Service and select Tempo
  2. Enter your Tempo URL
    • Example: https://tempo.example.com
    • The full URL to your Tempo instance
  3. Select your Authentication method:
    • None - For publicly accessible instances
    • Basic Auth - For username/password authentication
    • Bearer Token - For token-based authentication
  4. (Optional) Enter Grafana Datasource UID
    • Links to Grafana dashboards (for visualization purposes)
  5. (Optional) Enable multi-tenancy if your backend requires X-Scope-OrgID header

Mimir Service

  1. Click Add Service and select Mimir
  2. Enter your Mimir URL
    • Example: https://mimir.example.com
    • The full URL to your Mimir instance
  3. Select your Authentication method:
    • None - For publicly accessible instances
    • Basic Auth - For username/password authentication
    • Bearer Token - For token-based authentication
  4. (Optional) Enter Grafana Datasource UID
    • Links to Grafana dashboards (for visualization purposes)
  5. (Optional) Enable multi-tenancy if your backend requires X-Scope-OrgID header

Step 3 - Credentials Storage (Optional)

  1. Check Share credentials with organization to securely share with your organization
    • When disabled: credentials are stored locally on this device
    • When enabled: credentials are securely shared with your organization members

Step 4 - Save

  1. Click Save All to complete the configuration
  2. Cardinal Desktop Application will verify connectivity to your Grafana services

Your AI agent can now query logs, traces, and metrics from your Grafana stack.

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