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I’ve been an early user of Grafana Assistant, but honestly it’s getting very frustrating with how slow and dumb it is at times. So, I decided to try and use Claude Code.

I gave Claude Code context on our stack (dashboards, data sources, etc) and made a skill. With that knowledge, I ask Opus to generate the dashboard JSON directly.
One shot (as it can’t validate visually) and it gets it better and faster than Grafana Assistant (yes with no validation).

The only frustrating thing is that you would need to reimport the JSON after every edit (or do them manually), but honestly I am starting to prefer it over Assistant.

Not sure if it’s model difference (Opus vs Sonnet) or just Grafana Assistant drowning in context, mostly itrelevant.