gcx is a command-line tool that lets people and AI coding agents manage and inspect Grafana Cloud, Enterprise, and open-source instances. It provides access to dashboards, alerts, SLOs, metrics, logs, and traces, with workflows for alert investigation, dashboard management, GitOps, and observability setup. Its catalogue entries provide agent instructions and extensions for using gcx.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add grafana/gcx --skill oncall-triagegit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/gcxWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00066 | $0.02145 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00026 | $0.00858 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00429 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00215 |
Grade A, and why
oncall-triage scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 14d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
1. Use gcx — do not call OnCall APIs directly (no curl, no HTTP libraries). How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OnCall Alert-Group Triage
OnCall alert groups are post-routing aggregations of alert deliveries — they answer "what is paging right now?". Grafana alert rules (under gcx alert rules) answer "why is rule X evaluating to firing?". This skill covers the OnCall side and pivots out when needed.
Core Principles
- Use gcx — do not call OnCall APIs directly (no curl, no HTTP libraries).
- The CLI emits structured diagnostics on stderr (
hint:,note:,warn:; JSONL withclassin agent mode). Pass them through. - The default
alert-groups listfilter excludes resolved + child groups. Surface--allonly when the user asks about history. - Action verbs in agent mode require
--forcewhen matched count > 1. Never pre-fill--forcewithout user confirmation.
Prerequisites
gcx configured with an active context that targets a Grafana stack with OnCall enabled. If not, use the setup-gcx skill first.
Triage Workflow
Step 1: List Active Alert Groups
gcx irm oncall alert-groups list
Default filter: state in {firing, acknowledged, silenced} and is_root=true (matches the OnCall UI). See --help for the full flag set; common narrowers are --state, --team <PK>, --integration <PK>, --escalation-chain <ID>, --mine, --max-age 24h. Team / integration / chain filters take IDs, not names — resolve first:
gcx irm oncall teams list -o json | jq -r '.[] | "\(.metadata.name): \(.spec.name)"' | grep -i "my team"
gcx irm oncall escalation-chains list
To attribute alert load to a rotation, filter by escalation chain, not integration: one integration routes through several chains to several schedules, and the alert group record carries no chain field of its own. Chain-filtered queries over the same integration return disjoint subsets.
Escape hatches: --all (drops both defaults — returns resolved + child groups), --include-child-groups, --state resolved.
For a historical window use --from / --to (RFC3339, unix timestamp, or now-30d); --max-age only anchors to now, and the two cannot be combined. --resolved-from / --resolved-to bound resolved_at instead. --acknowledged-by <user-id> / --resolved-by <user-id> attribute handling to a person.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 14d ago Changed · +4 lines · -91 tokens per session 4e12eb8c0fd4
- 2mo ago First seen · 142 lines · 157 tokens per session scan A 1cfb5754dca1
oncall-triage is a skill published in the GitHub repository grafana/gcx (817 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 2,145 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| oncall-triagegrafana/gcx | Skill | 817 | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 66 | Claude Code |
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