--- title: From signals to savings: Optimizing cloud costs with... description: Grafana Assistant, the AI-powered agent in Grafana Cloud, can analyze Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure telemetry to identify resource waste and cost... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/from-signals-to-savings-optimizing-cloud-costs-with-grafana-assistant-and-mcp-servers-qyawb2aet twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: From signals to savings: Optimizing cloud costs with Grafana Assistant and MCP servers | daily.dev og:description: Grafana Assistant, the AI-powered agent in Grafana Cloud, can analyze Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure telemetry to identify resource waste and cost... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-signals-to-savings-optimizing-cloud-costs-with-grafana-assistant-and-mcp-servers-qyawb2aet og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qyaWB2aet.png og:image:alt: From signals to savings: Optimizing cloud costs with Grafana Assistant and MCP servers og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From signals to savings: Optimizing cloud costs with Grafana Assistant and MCP servers **[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Grafana Assistant, the AI-powered agent in Grafana Cloud, can analyze Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure telemetry to identify resource waste and cost optimization opportunities without requiring PromQL knowledge. By integrating with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers such as the GitHub MCP server, Assistant can go beyond recommendations and automatically apply optimizations — for example, updating Helm values.yaml files and opening pull requests based on 30-day production usage data. The workflow covers Kubernetes workloads as well as AWS, GCP, Azure VMs, and managed databases, and can be extended to other tools like Cloudflare, Jenkins, and LaunchDarkly via MCP integrations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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