Grafana App SDK Concepts

The grafana-app-sdk is a CLI and Go library for building schema-centric applications on the Grafana App Platform. Apps define resource types using CUE schemas ("kinds"), generate Go and TypeScript code from those schemas, and implement business logic via admission control (ingress validation/mutation) and reconcilers (async processing).

Prerequisites

Install the CLI:

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

Verify installation:

grafana-app-sdk version

Deployment Modes

The available deployment modes depend on the repository context: