Gcx plugin for Grok Build
A CLI for managing Grafana and Grafana Cloud resources. Optimized for agentic usage.
How to install Gcx in Grok Build
1. Add this repo as a plugin marketplace in Grok Build (once per computer):
grok plugin marketplace add grafana/gcx2. Install the plugin:
grok plugin install gcx@grafana/gcx --trustReview before you trust it. --trust lets this plugin's hooks, MCP servers and scripts run code on your computer. It's a community repo that neither xAI nor GrokStacks has reviewed, so read its code first.
Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Inside Grok Build: type /plugins, open the Marketplace tab, press a and add grafana/gcx, then select gcx and press i.
Command format: Grok Build's plugin guide
What we checked: on Oct 19, 2026 it installed with grok 1.0.62 and Grok found 24 skills, 1 subagent. That's an install check only: we haven't run it in a live Grok session.
What it contains
Skills (24)
agento11y— Inspects and manages Grafana Agent Observability resources via gcx: conversations, generations, experiments, evaluators, rules, scores, and templates. Use when the user wants to list or search conversations, export experiment conversations,agento11y-instrument— Instrument a developer's own LLM app or agent with Grafana Agent Observability. Use for initial setup, incomplete or broken instrumentation, missing generations, or empty Performance charts. Reads the code, checks SDK and OpenTelemetry setuagento11y-prod-setup— Sets up production evaluation and guardrails for a DEPLOYED AI agent in Grafana Agent Observability, grounded in the agent's own code and its real ingested traffic. The judgment layer on top of the `agento11y` skill: it reads the agent's soagento11y-test-starter— Use early in an AI-agent project — before ship, before real traffic — to build a starter test suite for the agent and run it offline. Reads the agent's own code (system prompt, tools, task), writes a labeled draft suite of test cases (happycreate-dashboard— Designs and creates Grafana dashboards with gcx, using `gcx dashboards snapshot` as a visual feedback loop. Use when the user wants to create a new Grafana dashboard, add panels, variables, or annotations to an existing dashboard, design dadebug-with-grafana— Investigates application problems and incidents using Grafana metrics, logs, and traces via gcx. Use for alerts, errors, latency, regressions, blast radius, or trace comparison. Uses qualified baselines and trace diff to investigate executidiagnose-entity-graph— Diagnose Entity Graph problems: missing entities, missing edges, disconnected clusters, or filtering issues. Use when the user reports that Entity Graph doesn't look right, services are missing, edges aren't appearing, or environments can'tgcx— Manages Grafana Cloud resources via the gcx CLI. Trigger when the user wants to inspect, create, update, delete, query, or automate any Grafana resource - dashboards, datasources, alerts, SLOs, synthetic checks, oncall, incidents, fleet, k6gcx-demo— Run a narrated, read-only demo tour of gcx for customer or colleague presentations. Showcases the breadth of gcx across every Grafana Cloud product area — resources, datasources, metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, alerts, synthetic monitoring, IRgcx-observability— (Experimental) End-to-end observability setup for Grafana Cloud using gcx. Covers instrumentation, SLOs, alerting, synthetic monitoring, k6 load testing, IRM on-call, dashboards, cost optimization, and GitOps export. Use when the user wantsgenerate-resource-stubs— Generates typed Go stub files and grafana-foundation-sdk builder boilerplate for dashboards and alert rules. Use only when the user explicitly asks for stubs, generated resource skeletons, or builder boilerplate. This is scaffolding only; fimport-dashboards— Imports existing Grafana dashboards as Go builder code via gcx. Use when the user wants to convert live dashboards to builder code, migrate dashboards to code, or reverse-engineer a dashboard from a Grafana instance. Triggers on "import dasinvestigate-alert— Investigate Grafana alerts to determine why they are firing, their scope, and impact. Use when the user asks about a specific alert, wants to understand alert behavior, or needs to diagnose why an alert is in a firing or pending state. Trigmanage-dashboards— Manages and inspects existing Grafana dashboards via gcx: list, get, search, audit what a saved dashboard actually contains (its panels and their types, the queries and expressions as saved, which datasource each panel uses, variables and woncall-triage— Triages active Grafana OnCall alert groups via gcx - list, inspect, acknowledge, silence, resolve. Use when the user is triaging what is actively paging in Grafana OnCall, or asks about active alert groups, acknowledging or silencing or resscaffold-project— Scaffolds a new Go project for managing Grafana resources as code via gcx dev scaffold. Use when the user wants to create a new Grafana resources-as-code project, start a new dashboards-as-code repo, scaffold a gcx project, or asks "how dosetup-gcx— Sets up gcx: installation, context creation, authentication, and connection to a Grafana instance. Covers Grafana Cloud and on-premise deployments, environment variable overrides for CI/CD, default datasource configuration, and troubleshootslo-check-status— Checks Grafana SLO health, error budget, and burn rate via gcx, with timeline graphs for trends. Use when the user asks about SLO health, wants an overview of all SLOs, or needs status of a specific SLO. Trigger on phrases like "how are myslo-investigate— Diagnoses breaching Grafana SLOs via gcx - root cause analysis, dimensional breakdown, alert rule correlation, runbook access. Use when a specific SLO is breaching or alerting and the user needs to understand why. Trigger on phrases like "islo-manage— Creates, updates, syncs, and deletes Grafana SLO definitions via gcx with dry-run validation and GitOps pull/push workflows. Use when the user wants to create, update, pull, push, or delete SLO definitions. Trigger on phrases like "create aslo-optimize— Analyzes Grafana SLO timeline trends via gcx and produces data-backed advisory recommendations: objective tuning, alerting sensitivity review, label visibility, or window adjustments. Use when the user wants to analyze SLO performance trendsynth-check-status— Shows Synthetic Monitoring check health - check inventory, per-check pass/fail status with success rates, and success-rate timelines as terminal graphs. Use when the user asks about Synthetic Monitoring check health, status, or trends. Trigsynth-investigate-check— Diagnoses why a Synthetic Monitoring check is failing - triages probe failures, classifies failure scope, runs per-probe breakdown, and identifies root cause. Use when the user wants to investigate a failing check. Trigger on phrases like "synth-manage-checks— Creates, updates, exports, and deletes Synthetic Monitoring checks from YAML definitions via gcx. Use when the user wants to create, update, pull, push, or delete Synthetic Monitoring checks. Trigger on phrases like "create a check", "add a
Subagents (1)
gcx:grafana-debugger— Diagnoses application problems and incidents using Grafana metrics, logs, and traces through gcx. Use for alerts, latency/error regressions, blast radius, ingestion changes, or a supplied trace ID. Us
About this listing
Gcx is a community plugin on GitHub by grafana, written as a Claude Code plugin that Grok Build installs. We install-checked it in Grok; we haven't run it in a live session or reviewed its code. When we installed it, Grok found 24 skills, 1 subagent. Its license is Apache-2.0. We checked commit a001c97bf8b5. It's one of 44 listings in the Observability & Monitoring category on GrokStacks. It also appears in best Grok Build plugins for observability and monitoring.
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Gcx FAQ
How do I install Gcx in Grok Build?
Add the repo as a marketplace with grok plugin marketplace add grafana/gcx, then run grok plugin install gcx@grafana/gcx --trust. Then start a new Grok session, or press r in /plugins, to load it.
Is Gcx an official Grok Build plugin?
No. Gcx is a community plugin on GitHub by grafana, not in xAI's official Grok Build marketplace. We checked that it installs and what Grok loads from it, but haven't run it in a live Grok session or reviewed its code.
What does Gcx include?
According to what Grok loaded in our install check, Gcx includes 24 skills, 1 subagent: agento11y, agento11y-instrument, agento11y-prod-setup, agento11y-test-starter, create-dashboard, debug-with-grafana….
Details
- Type
- Plugin
- Category
- Observability & Monitoring
- Source
- Community Claude Code plugin, installs in Grok
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Author
- grafana
- Source repo
- https://github.com/grafana/gcx
- Checked commit
a001c97bf8b5- Homepage
- http://grafana.com
- Checked by GrokStacks
- Install-checked in Grok Build on Oct 19, 2026; not run in a live session
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