# How to connect Grafana Cloud to Hermes Agent (no API keys) > Connect Grafana Cloud to Hermes with ClawLink in one click — 117 tools your AI agent can call from chat via hosted OAuth. No API keys, no manual setup. Web version: https://claw-link.dev/hermes/grafana-cloud Most guides for giving Hermes Agent Grafana Cloud access start with registering your own OAuth app or pasting API keys into env files, then leave the token refresh and tool wiring to you. ClawLink gives Hermes a more practical Grafana Cloud setup: pair once in the browser and your always-on Hermes agent can act on Grafana Cloud for you, reading and doing real work on your behalf with no auth, token refresh, or tool wiring to build yourself. ## Setup It takes three steps to connect Hermes to Grafana Cloud. 1. **Install ClawLink** — add the plugin to Hermes Agent once. 2. **Connect Grafana Cloud** — one-click OAuth in the ClawLink dashboard. 3. **Use it from chat** — ask Hermes Agent in plain English. **Paste this into Hermes to set up ClawLink:** > Set up ClawLink for Hermes and tell me when it's ready. > 1. Install the plugin: `hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable` > 2. Start pairing with `hermes clawlink begin`. It prints an approval link, so show me the link and stop, don't wait. > 3. I'll approve it in my browser, then reply "approved". > 4. When I say approved, finish setup: `hermes clawlink finish` > 5. Then run `hermes clawlink test` and tell me whether ClawLink is ready. **Alternative for any agent (no plugin needed):** if the Hermes Agent plugin route isn't available or doesn't work, any AI agent with shell access can use the ClawLink CLI instead: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login # sign in via browser — no API key to paste npx -y @useclawlink/cli connect grafana-cloud # connect Grafana Cloud (browser OAuth) npx -y @useclawlink/cli actions grafana-cloud # list available actions npx -y @useclawlink/cli run grafana-cloud --input '' # execute (add --confirm for writes) ``` ### Install by command The prompt above walks Hermes through this. By hand, it is four commands and a browser approval: ```bash hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable hermes clawlink begin # prints an approval link — open it and approve hermes clawlink finish # after approving in the browser hermes clawlink test ``` Then connect Grafana Cloud in the [ClawLink dashboard](https://claw-link.dev/dashboard) — a one-click OAuth approval, no API keys. Verify the connection by asking Hermes: > Use Grafana Cloud to mcp agento11y manage agents and walk me through the result in plain English. ### Using a different agent? The Hermes plugin is one client of ClawLink's MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent that can run a shell command pairs with the same ClawLink account through the CLI: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login ``` `login` opens the same browser approval and stores a credential locally. Once Grafana Cloud is connected in the dashboard, that agent calls the same 117 Grafana Cloud tools over MCP. Full setup for MCP clients and shell agents: [connect apps to any AI agent](https://claw-link.dev/learn/connect-apps-to-any-ai-agent). ## Grafana Cloud MCP for Hermes Looking for a Grafana Cloud MCP server for Hermes Agent? ClawLink connects Grafana Cloud to Hermes Agent and exposes 117 Grafana Cloud tools your agent can call over [MCP](https://claw-link.dev/learn/what-is-an-mcp-server), with [hosted auth](https://claw-link.dev/learn/oauth-for-ai-agents) and nothing to run or maintain yourself. Using OpenClaw instead? The [OpenClaw Grafana Cloud integration](https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/grafana-cloud) works the same way. ## What the Hermes Agent Grafana Cloud integration can do 117 Grafana Cloud tools are ready for Hermes Agent once the account is connected. The 30 below are the ones people reach for most; your agent can call all 117. ### 30 of 117 Grafana Cloud tools for Hermes | Tool | What it does | |---|---| | **Mcp agento11y manage agents** `grafana_cloud_mcp_agento11y_manage_agents` | Read the agent catalog of Grafana Agent Observability (the grafana-agento11y-app plugin): which | | **Mcp agento11y manage conversations** `grafana_cloud_mcp_agento11y_manage_conversations` | List, search, and fetch LLM conversations from Grafana Agent Observability (the | | **Mcp agento11y manage generations** `grafana_cloud_mcp_agento11y_manage_generations` | Fetch a single LLM generation and its evaluation scores from Grafana Agent Observability (the | | **Mcp alerting manage routing** `grafana_cloud_mcp_alerting_manage_routing` | Manage Grafana alerting routing configuration, including notification policies, contact points | | **Mcp analyze loki labels** `grafana_cloud_mcp_analyze_loki_labels` | Audits a Loki label strategy and optionally diagnoses query performance | | **Mcp check datasources health** `grafana_cloud_mcp_check_datasources_health` | Check datasource health | | **Mcp describe athena table** `grafana_cloud_mcp_describe_athena_table` | Get column names for an Athena table | | **Mcp describe clickhouse table** `grafana_cloud_mcp_describe_clickhouse_table` | Get column schema for a ClickHouse table | | **Mcp describe infrastructure** `grafana_cloud_mcp_describe_infrastructure` | Start here when users ask about their infrastructure, services, or architecture | | **Mcp describe snowflake table** `grafana_cloud_mcp_describe_snowflake_table` | Get column schema for a Snowflake table | | **Mcp get alert group** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_alert_group` | Get a specific alert group from Grafana OnCall by its ID | | **Mcp get annotation tags** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_annotation_tags` | Returns annotation tags with optional filtering by tag name | | **Mcp get annotations** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_annotations` | Fetch Grafana annotations using filters such as dashboard UID, time range and tags | | **Mcp get assertions** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_assertions` | Get assertion summary for a given entity with its type, name, env, site, namespace, and a time | | **Mcp get current oncall users** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_current_oncall_users` | Get the list of users currently on-call for a specific Grafana OnCall schedule ID | | **Mcp get dashboard by uid** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_dashboard_by_uid` | Retrieves the complete dashboard, including panels, variables, and settings, for a specific | | **Mcp get dashboard panel queries** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_dashboard_panel_queries` | Retrieve panel queries from a Grafana dashboard | | **Mcp get dashboard property** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_dashboard_property` | Get specific parts of a dashboard using JSONPath expressions to minimize context window usage | | **Mcp get dashboard summary** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_dashboard_summary` | Get a compact summary of a dashboard including title\, panel count\, panel types\, variables\ | | **Mcp get datasource** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_datasource` | Retrieves detailed information about a specific datasource by UID or name | | **Mcp get incident** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_incident` | Get a single incident by ID | | **Mcp get investigation** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_investigation` | Get one Grafana Assistant investigation (AI-driven root-cause investigation) by ID | | **Mcp get investigation thread** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_investigation_thread` | Get the working thread of one Grafana Assistant investigation (AI-driven root-cause | | **Mcp get oncall shift** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_oncall_shift` | Get detailed information for a specific Grafana OnCall shift using its ID | | **Mcp get panel image** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_panel_image` | Render a Grafana dashboard panel or full dashboard as a PNG image | | **Mcp get plugin** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_plugin` | Check whether a Grafana plugin is installed and retrieve its details (name, version, type | | **Mcp get query examples** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_query_examples` | Get example queries for a specific datasource type | | **Mcp get resource description** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_resource_description` | List available permissions and assignment capabilities for a Grafana resource type | | **Mcp get resource permissions** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_resource_permissions` | List all permissions set on a specific Grafana resource (e.g., dashboard, datasource, folder) | | **Mcp get role assignments** `grafana_cloud_mcp_get_role_assignments` | List all assignments for a specific role, showing which users, teams, and service accounts have | ## Example prompts **Mcp Agento11y Manage Agents** > Use Grafana Cloud to mcp agento11y manage agents and walk me through the result in plain English. **Mcp Agento11y Manage Conversations** > Use Grafana Cloud to mcp agento11y manage conversations and walk me through the result in plain English. **Mcp Agento11y Manage Generations** > Use Grafana Cloud to mcp agento11y manage generations and walk me through the result in plain English. **Mcp Alerting Manage Routing** > Use Grafana Cloud to mcp alerting manage routing and walk me through the result in plain English. ## ClawLink vs. building it yourself The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual OAuth app setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want Grafana Cloud working from chat. | | Manual | ClawLink | |---|---|---| | **Connection flow** | Register a Grafana Cloud app, configure redirect URLs, manage consent details, and reconnect users when auth settings drift. | Users connect Grafana Cloud through the hosted browser flow and ClawLink keeps the token lifecycle out of your app code. | | **Ongoing maintenance** | You own refresh logic, permission debugging, environment config, and every provider-specific edge case for Grafana Cloud. | ClawLink handles the repetitive integration plumbing so your team can focus on the workflow instead of the infrastructure. | | **Agent usability** | You still need to expose the right Grafana Cloud actions to the runtime in a format your agent can reliably use. | 117 tools for Grafana Cloud are already exposed through ClawLink, so the agent can read and act from chat immediately. | ## ClawLink vs. Composio Composio also exposes Grafana Cloud to AI agents. It is developer infrastructure: Python and TypeScript SDKs, an MCP server, and a catalog past 1,000 apps, aimed at teams shipping agent products. ClawLink is built for Hermes Agent users instead. You install the plugin once, connect Grafana Cloud in the browser, and the 117 tools above work from chat. There is no SDK, no config file, and no API key handling. Choosing between them? Read the full [Composio alternatives](https://claw-link.dev/hub/composio-alternatives) comparison. ### Hermes paired but still can't use Grafana Cloud Pairing is a two-step handshake: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, then run `hermes clawlink finish`. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run `hermes clawlink begin` again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with `--enable`, then verify with `hermes clawlink test`. ### Connection succeeds but no tools appear Reconnect Grafana Cloud from the dashboard, then start a fresh chat if the runtime still has the old tool catalog loaded. ### "Tool schema not loaded yet" error when calling Grafana Cloud tools Grafana Cloud tool schemas load on demand the first time a tool runs and are cached after that, so this error usually clears on its own: wait a few seconds and retry the same request. If every Grafana Cloud call keeps failing with it in a fresh chat, reconnect from the dashboard, and contact support if it still persists — that pattern points to a configuration problem on our side, not something you can fix by reconnecting again. ### Grafana Cloud returns 403 or "permission denied" on one action while others work Two usual causes. The connected account may not have access to the specific workspace, inbox, store, or project in the request — check that first. If access looks right, the agent may have sent a placeholder value (like "YOUR_ID" or an example id from documentation) instead of a real one: ask it to run a list or search tool first, then retry the action with a real id from those results. Most failures at this stage are one of these two, not ClawLink bugs. ### OAuth finished in the browser but the account is still missing Try reconnecting Grafana Cloud and complete the consent flow in the same browser session. Partial OAuth approvals or switching accounts mid-flow can leave the connection incomplete. ### Is there a Hermes Agent Grafana Cloud integration? Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect Hermes to Grafana Cloud: link your Grafana Cloud account once in the browser and Hermes Agent can call the Grafana Cloud API through 117 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling. ### How do I connect Grafana Cloud to Hermes with ClawLink? Install the plugin with `hermes plugins install ClawLink-HQ/hermes-plugin --enable`, then pair once: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, and run `hermes clawlink finish`. Connect Grafana Cloud in the dashboard and Hermes can use it from the next message — no config files or API keys to manage. ### How long does it take to connect Grafana Cloud to Hermes Agent? About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to Grafana Cloud in the dashboard, authenticate, and Hermes Agent can use it from the next chat message. ### Why use ClawLink instead of wiring Grafana Cloud up myself? The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual OAuth app setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for Hermes Agent. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want Grafana Cloud working from chat. ### Hermes paired but still can't use Grafana Cloud Pairing is a two-step handshake: run `hermes clawlink begin`, approve the link in your browser, then run `hermes clawlink finish`. If you ran finish before approving, or the approval link expired, run `hermes clawlink begin` again to get a fresh link. Confirm the plugin was installed with `--enable`, then verify with `hermes clawlink test`. ## Related - [Connect PostHog](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/posthog) — Track user behavior and feature flags - [Hermes DataforSEO integration](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/dataforseo) — SEO data APIs for keywords, SERP, and site audits - [Connect Metabase](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/metabase) — Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool that lets you ask questions about your data and visualize answers as charts, graphs, and dashboards.