Back to MCP Servers

Grafana

Search dashboards, investigate incidents and query datasources in your Grafana instance

monitoring
By grafana
3.0k353Updated 1 day agoGoApache-2.0

Installation

npx -y mcp-grafana

Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-grafana"]
    }
  }
}

How to use

  1. Run the installation command above (if needed)
  2. Open your Claude Code settings file (~/.claude/settings.json)
  3. Add the configuration to the mcpServers section
  4. Restart Claude Code to apply changes

README

View on GitHub

Grafana MCP server

Unit Tests Integration Tests E2E Tests Go Reference MCP Catalog

A [Model Context Protocol][mcp] (MCP) server for Grafana.

This provides access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem.

Quick Start

Requires uv. Add the following to your MCP client configuration (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor):

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

For Grafana Cloud, replace GRAFANA_URL with your instance URL (e.g. https://myinstance.grafana.net). See Usage for more installation options including Docker, binary, and Helm.

Requirements

  • Grafana version 9.0 or later is required for full functionality. Some features, particularly datasource-related operations, may not work correctly with earlier versions due to missing API endpoints.

Features

The following features are currently available in MCP server. This list is for informational purposes only and does not represent a roadmap or commitment to future features.

Dashboards

  • Search for dashboards: Find dashboards by title or other metadata
  • Get dashboard by UID: Retrieve full dashboard details using its unique identifier. Warning: Large dashboards can consume significant context window space.
  • Get dashboard summary: Get a compact overview of a dashboard including title, panel count, panel types, variables, and metadata without the full JSON to minimize context window usage
  • Get dashboard property: Extract specific parts of a dashboard using JSONPath expressions (e.g., $.title, $.panels[*].title) to fetch only needed data and reduce context window consumption
  • Update or create a dashboard: Modify existing dashboards or create new ones. Warning: Requires full dashboard JSON which can consume large amounts of context window space.
  • Patch dashboard: Apply specific changes to a dashboard without requiring the full JSON, significantly reducing context window usage for targeted modifications
  • Get panel queries and datasource info: Get the title, query string, and datasource information (including UID and type, if available) from every panel in a dashboard

Run Panel Query

Note: Run panel query tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add runpanelquery to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • Run panel query: Execute a dashboard panel's query with custom time ranges and variable overrides.

Context Window Management

The dashboard tools now include several strategies to manage context window usage effectively (issue #101):

  • Use get_dashboard_summary for dashboard overview and planning modifications
  • Use get_dashboard_property with JSONPath when you only need specific dashboard parts
  • Avoid get_dashboard_by_uid unless you specifically need the complete dashboard JSON

Datasources

  • List and fetch datasource information: View all configured datasources and retrieve detailed information about each.
    • Supported datasource types: Prometheus, Loki, ClickHouse, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Snowflake, Athena.

Query Examples

Note: Query examples tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add examples to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • Get query examples: Retrieve example queries for different datasource types to learn query syntax.

Prometheus Querying

  • Query Prometheus: Execute PromQL queries (supports both instant and range metric queries) against Prometheus datasources.
  • Query Prometheus metadata: Retrieve metric metadata, metric names, label names, and label values from Prometheus datasources.
  • Query histogram percentiles: Calculate histogram percentile values (p50, p90, p95, p99) using histogram_quantile.

Loki Querying

  • Query Loki logs and metrics: Run both log queries and metric queries using LogQL against Loki datasources.
  • Query Loki metadata: Retrieve label names, label values, and stream statistics from Loki datasources.
  • Query Loki patterns: Retrieve log patterns detected by Loki to identify common log structures and anomalies.

InfluxDB Querying

Note: InfluxDB tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add influxdb to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • Query InfluxDB: Execute queries against InfluxDB datasources using either InfluxQL (v1.x) or Flux (v2.x). The dialect is inferred from the datasource configuration, or can be set explicitly via the dialect parameter.

ClickHouse Querying

Note: ClickHouse tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add clickhouse to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • List ClickHouse tables: List all tables in a ClickHouse database with row counts and sizes.
  • Describe table schema: Get column names, types, and metadata for a ClickHouse table.
  • Query ClickHouse: Execute SQL queries with Grafana macro and variable substitution support.

CloudWatch Querying

Note: CloudWatch tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add cloudwatch to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • List CloudWatch namespaces: Discover available AWS CloudWatch namespaces.
  • List CloudWatch metrics: List metrics available in a specific namespace.
  • List CloudWatch dimensions: Get dimensions for filtering metric queries.
  • Query CloudWatch: Execute CloudWatch metric queries with time range support.

Graphite Querying

Note: Graphite tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add graphite to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • Query Graphite: Execute Graphite render API queries against a Graphite datasource.
  • List Graphite metrics: Browse and discover Graphite metric paths.
  • List Graphite tags: List available Graphite tags and tag values.
  • Query Graphite density: Query Graphite metric density for a given pattern.

Athena Querying

Note: Athena tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add athena to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • List Athena catalogs: Discover available data catalogs (e.g. AwsDataCatalog, Iceberg connectors).
  • List Athena databases: List databases in an Athena catalog.
  • List Athena tables: List tables in an Athena database.
  • Describe Athena table: Get column names for an Athena table.
  • Query Athena: Execute SQL queries against Amazon Athena via Grafana with macro substitution, limit enforcement, and template variable support.

Snowflake Querying

Note: Snowflake tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add snowflake to your --enabled-tools flag.

Queries go through Grafana's Snowflake datasource (Grafana Enterprise plugin grafana-snowflake-datasource), so authentication is handled by the datasource configuration in Grafana — credentials are never seen by the MCP server. This is the same model used for the ClickHouse tools.

  • List Snowflake tables: Discover tables (with database, schema, kind, row count, and size) via INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES. Optional database/schema filters.
  • Describe table schema: Get column names, data types, nullability, defaults, and comments for a Snowflake table.
  • Query Snowflake: Execute SQL queries with macro and variable substitution support. Useful for querying Snowflake's event tables (e.g. SNOWFLAKE.TELEMETRY.EVENTS) for logs and traces, or any user table.
    • Supported macros: $__timeFilter(column), $__timeFrom, $__timeTo, $__from, $__to (Unix ms), $__interval (seconds), $__interval_ms, and ${varname} for template variable substitution.

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Querying

Note: Elasticsearch/OpenSearch tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add elasticsearch to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • Query Elasticsearch/OpenSearch: Execute search queries against Elasticsearch or OpenSearch datasources using either Lucene query syntax or Elasticsearch Query DSL. Supports filtering by time range and retrieving logs, metrics, or any indexed data. Returns documents with their index, ID, source fields, and optional relevance score.

Incidents

  • Search, create, and update incidents: Manage incidents in Grafana Incident, including searching, creating, and adding activities to incidents.

Sift Investigations

  • List Sift investigations: Retrieve a list of Sift investigations, with support for a limit parameter.
  • Get Sift investigation: Retrieve details of a specific Sift investigation by its UUID.
  • Get Sift analyses: Retrieve a specific analysis from a Sift investigation.
  • Find error patterns in logs: Detect elevated error patterns in Loki logs using Sift.
  • Find slow requests: Detect slow requests using Sift (Tempo).

Alerting

  • List and fetch alert rule information: View alert rules and their statuses (firing/normal/error/etc.) in Grafana. Supports both Grafana-managed rules and datasource-managed rules from Prometheus or Loki datasources.
  • Create and update alert rules: Create new alert rules or modify existing ones.
  • Delete alert rules: Remove alert rules by UID.
  • Manage alerting routing: View notification policies, contact points, and time intervals. Supports both Grafana-managed contact points and receivers from external Alertmanager datasources (Prometheus Alertmanager, Mimir, Cortex).

Grafana OnCall

  • List and manage schedules: View and manage on-call schedules in Grafana OnCall.
  • Get shift details: Retrieve detailed information about specific on-call shifts.
  • Get current on-call users: See which users are currently on call for a schedule.
  • List teams and users: View all OnCall teams and users.
  • List alert groups: View and filter alert groups from Grafana OnCall by various criteria including state, integration, labels, and time range.
  • Get alert group details: Retrieve detailed information about a specific alert group by its ID.

Admin

Note: Admin tools are disabled by default. To enable them, include admin in your --enabled-tools flag.

  • List teams: View all configured teams in Grafana.
  • List Users: View all users in an organization in Grafana.
  • List all roles: List all Grafana roles, with an optional filter for delegatable roles.
  • Get role details: Get details for a specific Grafana role by UID.
  • List assignments for a role: List all users, teams, and service accounts assigned to a role.
  • List roles for users: List all roles assigned to one or more users.
  • List roles for teams: List all roles assigned to one or more teams.
  • List permissions for a resource: List all permissions defined for a specific resource (dashboard, datasource, folder, etc.).
  • Describe a Grafana resource: List available permissions and assignment capabilities for a resource type.

Navigation

  • Generate deeplinks: Create accurate deeplink URLs for Grafana resources instead of relying on LLM URL guessing.
    • Dashboard links: Generate direct link

…

View source on GitHub

You might also like

Sentry Server
MCP Servers
Grafana Server
MCP Servers
Datadog Server
MCP Servers