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Grafana Ansible collection

The Grafana Ansible collection provides configuration management resources for Grafana. You can use it to manage resources such as dashboards, Cloud stacks, folders, and more.

The collection also houses the Grafana Agent role which can be used to deploy and manage Grafana Agent across various Linux machines.

Caution

Grafana Alloy is the new name for our distribution of the OTel collector. Grafana Agent has been deprecated and is in Long-Term Support (LTS) through October 31, 2025. Grafana Agent will reach an End-of-Life (EOL) on November 1, 2025. Read more about why we recommend migrating to Grafana Alloy.

For resources currently not available in the Grafana Ansible collection, you can manage those resources on Grafana Cloud programmatically by writing Ansible playbooks that use the Ansible’s builtin uri module to call the HTTP APIs to manage resources for the Grafana Cloud portal, as well as those within a stack.

Use the following guides to get started using Ansible to manage your Grafana Cloud stack:

TopicDescription
Create and manage a Grafana Cloud stack using AnsibleDescribes how to create a Grafana Cloud stack and add a data source and dashboard using Ansible.
Install Grafana Agent on a Linux host using AnsibleDescribes how to install the Grafana Agent on a Linux node using Ansible and use it to push logs to Grafana Cloud.
Monitor multiple Linux hosts with Grafana Agent RoleDescribes how to use the Grafana Ansible collection to manage agents across multiple Linux hosts.