Grafana - Antimetal Docs

Overview

This guide walks you through connecting Grafana to Antimetal. Antimetal queries Grafana and the data sources wired into it, including Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and Pyroscope, so you do not need a separate connection for each data source.

Set up in Antimetal

Go to the Grafana integration setup in the Antimetal dashboard.

Setup

Choose the tab that matches your Grafana deployment.

Grafana Cloud
Self-Hosted

Prerequisites

A Grafana Cloud account with access to Loki, Tempo, or Prometheus
Permissions to view data sources and create access policies

Open the Grafana Cloud Portal

Go to grafana.com/profile/org and select your organization.

Access the data source instance

From the left sidebar, go to Connections > Data Sources and click on your Loki, Tempo, or Prometheus instance.

Copy your URL and username

Copy the URL under Connection (e.g., https://logs-prod-036.grafana.net)
Copy the User under Authentication (a numeric ID, e.g., 1264142)

Create an access policy token

Scroll down to the Access Policies section
Click Create Access Policy
Enter a name (e.g., Antimetal)
Under Permissions, enable all read permissions
Click Create Token

Copy the token. It is shown only once.

Submit credentials to Antimetal

Provide the following in the Antimetal UI:

Field	Value
URL	The full URL you copied
Username	The numeric user ID
Password	The access policy token

A self-hosted instance usually lives inside your own network. Before connecting, review Self-Hosted Observability to make it reachable by Antimetal.

Prerequisites

A self-hosted Grafana instance, reachable over HTTPS from Antimetal
Permission to create a service account and token in Grafana

Confirm your instance URL

Note the base URL of your Grafana instance, for example https://grafana.internal.example.com.

Create a service account token

In Grafana, go to Administration > Service Accounts > Add service account. Assign the Viewer role for read-only access, then add a token.

Copy the token when it is shown. It cannot be retrieved later.

Submit credentials to Antimetal

Provide the following in the Antimetal UI:

Field	Value
Grafana URL	The base URL of your instance
Service Account Token	The Viewer-scoped token

Permissions and Access

Antimetal uses read-only access: a Viewer-scoped service account token for self-hosted instances, or a read-only access policy token for Grafana Cloud. No write operations are performed.

​Overview

Set up in Antimetal

​Setup

​Prerequisites

​Prerequisites

​Permissions and Access

Overview

Setup

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

Permissions and Access