Grafana MCP

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Grafana MCP

Grafana dashboard + data-source ops.

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Best for

Best for OSS observability teams running Grafana dashboards.

At a glance

Pricing: open-source
Setup time: 20 minutes
Learning curve: moderate
Last verified: 5/27/2026

What we love

✓Grafana-maintained
✓Lets Claude generate/update dashboards
✓Service-account auth clean

Where it falls short

−Dashboards as JSON can be verbose
−Plugin compat varies
−Access discipline needed

Install & connect

Copy-paste ready

Install

shell

uvx mcp-grafana

Config — Claude Desktop

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-grafana"],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "your_service_account_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

1 tier

Open-source

perpetual

✓AGPL

Overview

MCP server for Grafana — dashboard CRUD, data source mgmt, alert + folder ops. Grafana API key or service account.

Key features

●Dashboard CRUD
●Data source mgmt
●Alert + folder ops
●Service-account auth
●OSS + Cloud

Exposed tools

The MCP-tool names this server exposes. Your agent can invoke any of these when this server is connected.

Dashboard tools (search / get_dashboard_by_uid / get_dashboard_summary / get_dashboard_property / update_dashboard / patch_dashboard / get_dashboard_panel_queries)
Search, fetch, summarize, patch, and create Grafana dashboards with context-window-aware variants.
Datasource tools (list_datasources / get_datasource / get_query_examples)
Discover and inspect Grafana datasources and retrieve example queries by type.
Prometheus tools (query / query_metadata / histogram percentiles)
Execute PromQL queries and retrieve metric metadata, labels, and histogram quantiles against Prometheus datasources.
Loki tools (query / query_metadata / query_patterns)
Run LogQL log and metric queries, fetch label metadata, and surface log patterns from Loki.
InfluxDB tools
Execute InfluxQL or Flux queries against InfluxDB datasources via Grafana.
ClickHouse tools (list_tables / describe_table / query)
Browse and query ClickHouse datasources with Grafana macro and variable substitution.
CloudWatch tools (list_namespaces / list_metrics / list_dimensions / query)
Discover and query AWS CloudWatch metrics through Grafana.
Graphite tools (query / list_metrics / list_tags / density)
Browse Graphite metric paths, list tags, and execute render API queries.
Athena tools (list_catalogs / list_databases / list_tables / describe_table / query)
Execute SQL queries and inspect schemas via Amazon Athena through Grafana.
Snowflake tools (list_tables / describe_table / query)
Discover and query Snowflake tables through Grafana's Snowflake datasource.
Elasticsearch/OpenSearch tools
Execute Lucene or Query DSL searches against Elasticsearch and OpenSearch datasources.
Incident tools
Search, create, and update incidents in Grafana Incident.
Sift Investigation tools
List and fetch Sift investigations, retrieve analyses, and detect log error patterns or slow requests.
Alerting tools
List, fetch, create, and update alert rules in Grafana.
OnCall, Pyroscope, Tempo, Asserts, Annotations, Folders, Users, Service Accounts, Reports, Library Panels, RBAC, Navigation tools
Additional categories exposing Grafana administrative, observability, and navigation surfaces (see README for exhaustive per-area tools).

Best use cases

Dashboard creation

Let Claude scaffold a new Grafana dashboard from a description.

Alert ops

Edit and rationalize Grafana alerts from chat.

Integrations

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

InfluxDB

Mimir

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