# Install grafanactl with Homebrew, Nix

CLI to interact with Grafana. Version 0.1.10 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#grafanactl.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:grafanactl
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install grafanactl
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#grafanactl
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/grafanactl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:grafanactl
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.10
- **Source summary:** CLI to interact with Grafana
- **Homepage:** <https://grafana.github.io/grafanactl/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/grafana/grafanactl>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T16:05:05+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- grafanactl (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.10
## Project history and usage

grafanactl is a Grafana Labs command-line tool for managing Grafana resources and environments through Grafana APIs. It belongs to the observability-as-code layer around Grafana rather than to the Grafana server itself.

### Project history

The Grafana documentation presents grafanactl as a CLI for authentication, multiple environments, and administrative/resource workflows through the Grafana REST API. The repository README describes it as public-preview software used by Grafana Labs while still under active development.

By 2026 the repository README pointed users toward gcx as the successor CLI and said the grafanactl repository would be archived on June 1, 2026. That makes grafanactl a transitional package in the Grafana CLI lineage.

### Adoption history

grafanactl adoption is tied to teams treating Grafana configuration as code: backing up resources, restoring resources, serving local resource definitions, and switching contexts between Grafana instances. Its Homebrew package gives macOS users a simple binary install for that workflow.

### How it is used

Users configure contexts, authenticate to Grafana, and run resource commands such as pulling resources to YAML or serving resources locally for preview and migration workflows.

### Why package nerds care

grafanactl is significant as a small, purpose-built companion CLI: it packages Grafana API automation separately from the large Grafana server package, which keeps scripted resource management available in shells and CI jobs.

### Timeline

- 2026-04-27: GitHub release page listed v0.1.10.
- 2026-06-01: Repository README named this date for archival in favor of gcx.

### Related projects

- Grafana is the server and API target.
- gcx is the successor CLI named by the Grafana repository.
- Grafana App SDK resources are part of the ecosystem around resource management.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/grafana/grafanactl>
- <https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/as-code/observability-as-code/grafana-cli/grafanacli-workflows/>
- <https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/as-code/observability-as-code/grafana-cli/grafanactl/>
- <https://grafana.github.io/grafanactl/reference/cli/grafanactl/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/grafanactl/config.yaml, ~/.config/grafanactl/config.yaml

## Credential files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/grafanactl/config.yaml, ~/.config/grafanactl/config.yaml
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - grafanactl: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gr/grafanactl/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/grafanactl.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/grafanactl.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph