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