# Grafana Service Account Token

## Step 1 - generate Grafana Service Account Token

* Make sure you have [groundcover cli installed](/getting-started/installation-and-updating/connect-kubernetes-cluster.md#installing-groundcover-cli)

```bash
groundcover version
```

* Generate service account token

```bash
groundcover auth generate-service-account-token
```

{% hint style="warning" %}
Service Account Token are only accessible once, so make sure you keep them somewhere safe, running the command again will generate a new service account token
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
Only groundcover tenant admins can generate Service Account Tokens
{% endhint %}

## Step 2 - Use Grafana Terraform provider

* make sure you have [Terraform installed](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/install-cli)
* Use the [official Grafana Terraform provider](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/grafana/grafana/latest/docs) with the following attributes

```hcl
terraform {
  required_providers {
    grafana = {
      source = "grafana/grafana"
    }
  }
}

provider "grafana" {
  url  = "https://app.groundcover.com/grafana"
  auth = "{service account token}"
}
```

Continue to create Alerts and Dashboards in Grafana, see: [Build alerts & dashboards with Grafana Terraform provider](/use-groundcover/embedded-grafana/embedded-grafana-dashboards/build-alerts-and-dashboards-with-grafana-terraform-provider.md).

You can read more about what you can achieve with the Grafana Terraform provider in the [official docs](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/grafana/grafana/latest/docs)


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