# grafana-oss

> Claude/Codex skill by [@grafana](https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/index.md) · 286 stars · Updated 2026-10-17

Configure Grafana OSS — provisions dashboards from YAML, sets up data sources (Prometheus / Loki / Tempo / Pyroscope), writes dashboard JSON with template variables, builds panel queries, assigns built-in roles (Viewer / Editor / Admin / GrafanaAdmin), mints service-account tokens, edits grafana.ini server config, creates annotations, installs plugins via provisioning, and validates each step with a health-check curl. Use when building dashboards, configuring data sources, setting up provisioning YAML, picking a panel type, writing template variables, managing users and roles, configuring SMTP/OAuth in grafana.ini, creating annotations via API, troubleshooting why a provisioned dashboard isn't showing up, or running Grafana OSS locally — even when the user says "set up a Prometheus data source", "provision dashboards from git", "make a service account", or "configure SSO in OSS" without saying "Grafana OSS".

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/grafana/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/grafana-core/grafana-oss ~/.claude/skills/grafana-oss
```

## From README

Grafana OSS Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest.md Common Workflows Provisioning dashboards from disk Drop dashboard JSON file(s) under /var/lib/grafana/dashboards/ Add a provider in provisioning/dashboards/default.yaml (see § Dashboard provisioning below) Restart Grafana so the provider config is loaded Verify the dashboard landed: Returns the title → success. 404 → provisioning didn't pick it up; check Grafana server logs (journalctl -u grafana-server | grep -i provisioning) for parse errors.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/skills/grafana-oss/
- GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/skills
- Author: [@grafana](https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/index.md)

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