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Overview

This guide walks you through retrieving the necessary URL, username, and access policy token from Grafana Cloud to enable the Antimetal integration.

Set up in Antimetal

Go to the Grafana Cloud integration setup in the Antimetal dashboard.

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Prerequisites

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

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Setup

1

Open the Grafana Cloud Portal

Go to grafana.com/profile/org and select your organization.
2

Access the data source instance

From the left sidebar, go to Connections > Data Sources and click on your Loki, Tempo, or Prometheus instance.
3

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)
4

Create an access policy token

  1. Scroll down to the Access Policies section
  2. Click Create Access Policy
  3. Enter a name (e.g., Antimetal)
  4. Under Permissions, enable all read permissions
  5. Click Create Token
Copy the token — it is shown only once.
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Submit credentials to Antimetal

Provide the following in the Antimetal UI:
FieldValue
URLThe full URL you copied
UsernameThe numeric user ID
PasswordThe access policy token

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Permissions and Access

Antimetal uses a read-only access policy token for your Loki, Tempo, and Prometheus instances. No write operations are performed.