docs/sources/administration/assistant/_index.md
Starting in Grafana v13, you can use Grafana Assistant on-premise by installing the Assistant app in your self-hosted Grafana deployment and connecting it to a Grafana Cloud stack.
Grafana Assistant on-premise keeps the Assistant experience inside your Grafana deployment. After setup, you can use Assistant to work with metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and databases, create and update dashboards, generate queries, and navigate Grafana resources from natural language prompts. However, it doesn’t include every Grafana Cloud feature. Refer to Available Assistant features for Grafana on-prem for details on the supported services.
For more information refer to the Grafana Assistant documentation.
Grafana Assistant on-premise needs access in both your self-hosted Grafana deployment and a Grafana Cloud stack.
The following is required:
The Assistant UI runs in your self-hosted Grafana deployment. The Assistant backend, usage limits, and billing stay in the Grafana Cloud stack that you connect during setup. If you run Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise, this is the supported way to use Assistant outside Grafana Cloud.
Grafana Assistant on-premise hides features that depend on the full Grafana Cloud backend, keeping the following chat workflows available:
The following features are not available on-premise:
Grafana Assistant on-premise connects your self-hosted Grafana deployment to the Grafana Cloud stack that provides the backend services.