Grafana App SDK Concepts

The grafana-app-sdk is a CLI + Go library for building schema-centric apps on the Grafana App Platform. Apps define resources via CUE schemas ("kinds"), generate Go + TypeScript code, and implement business logic via admission control and reconcilers.

Prerequisites

go install github.com/grafana/grafana-app-sdk/cmd/grafana-app-sdk@latest
grafana-app-sdk version   # verify

Common Workflows

Scaffold a standalone operator app

# 1. Init the project (use the Go module path)
grafana-app-sdk project init github.com/example/my-app