Hyper for Grafana

What Hyper reads

Hyper does not keep a copy of your Grafana data. It reads Grafana each time you ask, at the address that you gave, as the service account that owns your token. It can search dashboards and folders and read each dashboard with its panels and queries. It can list data sources and run queries against them, so it can read your metrics, logs, and other data. It can read alert rules, the alerts that fire now, silences, contact points, annotations, and teams, if the role of the service account allows it. Hyper cannot reach a Grafana that is on a private network.

What Hyper can do

Save and delete dashboards and folders. Add annotations. Create, change, and delete alert rules, contact points, and notification policies. Make silences, which stop alert notifications. Create, change, and delete data sources, teams, and library panels. Hyper cannot make or read service account tokens, and it cannot change server settings, licenses, or single sign-on. What Hyper can change depends on the role of the service account: Viewer reads only, and Editor can also change dashboards and alerts. Hyper asks you before each action, unless you chose to always allow that kind of action.

Before you connect

The token that you paste works for the whole Grafana organization that it belongs to, with the role of its service account. A query runs on your live data source and can be slow or costly. A silence stops notifications, so a real incident can go unseen. A deleted dashboard or alert rule can be hard to bring back. When you disconnect, Hyper forgets the token, but it stays valid until you delete it in Grafana. Names, labels, and text in dashboards, alerts, and your data can hide instructions that try to trick an assistant, so check each change before you approve it.