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Grafana

Search dashboards, query datasources and manage incidents and alerts in Grafana.

Transport
Local (stdio)
Status
Official · Grafana Labs
Auth method
Grafana service account tokenGRAFANA_URL, GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN
Scopes / permissions
Per-tool Grafana RBAC permissions are listed in the README (e.g. ask_assistant needs grafana-assistant-app.chats:access and plugins.app:access)
Last verified
Oct 22, 2026
Tools listed
05

§1What it does

Grafana's official MCP server gives agents access to dashboards, datasources (Prometheus, Loki and more), alerting, incidents and OnCall. Works with self-hosted Grafana and Grafana Cloud.

§2Setup

Run with uvx
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-grafana"],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<your service account token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Snippets adapted from the official documentation. Check the official page for current options and auth requirements.

§3Prompts to try

  1. “What's the p95 latency on the checkout service over the last hour?”
  2. “Summarize the panels on the API Overview dashboard.”

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