What is Grafana MCP Server?

It is a Model Context Protocol server from Grafana for connecting AI clients to Grafana observability workflows.

What Grafana version is required?

The README says Grafana version 9.0 or later is required for full functionality.

How does authentication work?

The quick-start configuration uses GRAFANA_URL and GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN environment variables.

Grafana MCP Server

Name: Grafana MCP Server
Author: Grafana

by Grafana

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MCP server for Grafana dashboards, datasources, queries, and observability workflows.

Features

Connect MCP clients to Grafana instances with service-account tokens
Summarize and patch dashboards without sending full dashboard JSON
Query Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, CloudWatch, Graphite, Athena, Snowflake, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch through Grafana datasources
Inspect dashboards, datasources, and query examples from an AI client
Run via uvx, Docker, binary, or Helm according to the official README

Use Cases

SRE

Ask an MCP client to inspect dashboards, run panel queries, and explain incidents without leaving the chat workflow.

Platform engineer

Expose Grafana observability context to coding agents while keeping authentication in Grafana service-account tokens.

What This Server Can Do

MCP servers expose three types of capabilities to AI clients. Here's what Grafana MCP Server supports.

Tools

Supported18 tools

Functions your AI client can call to perform actions — like querying a database, creating a file, or calling an API.

How to use: Tools run automatically when your AI client decides they're needed. Ask your AI assistant to perform a task, and it will invoke the right tool.

Resources

Not available

This server does not expose read-only data resources.

Prompts

Not available

This server does not provide pre-built prompt templates.

For the full list of available tools, resources, and prompts, check the README on GitHub.

Available Tools (3)

dashboard_summary

Get compact dashboard summaries with title, panels, variables, and metadata.

patch_dashboard

Apply targeted changes to Grafana dashboards.

query_datasource

Run datasource queries through Grafana-supported datasources.