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An MCP server giving access to Grafana dashboards, data and more.

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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, folder UID, tag, or starred status
  • Get dashboard by UID: Retrieve full dashboard details using its unique identifier. Pass optional version to load a saved snapshot instead of the current dashboard. Warning: Large dashboards can consume significant context window space.
  • List dashboard versions: List saved versions of a dashboard as compact metadata (version number, author, timestamp, save message)
  • 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.

SQL Datasource Querying

Note: SQL tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add sql to your --enabled-tools flag. Back-compat aliases clickhouse, snowflake, and athena also work.

Unified SQL tools support ClickHouse, Snowflake, Athena, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MSSQL through a single set of tools. Queries go through Grafana's datasource plugins, so authentication is handled by datasource configuration — credentials are never seen by the MCP server.

  • List databases/schemas/catalogs: Discover organizational units for a SQL datasource. For Athena, omit catalog to list catalogs, or pass a catalog to list databases.
  • List tables: List tables in a database or schema with metadata (row counts, sizes where available).
  • Describe table schema: Get column names, types, nullability, defaults, and comments.
  • Query SQL: Execute SQL queries with datasource-specific macro substitution ($__timeFilter(col), $__from/$__to, $__interval, ${varname}), automatic limit enforcement, and template variable 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.

Google Cloud Logging Querying

Note: Google Cloud Logging tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add cloudlogging to your --enabled-tools flag. Requires the Google Cloud Logging datasource plugin (googlecloud-logging-datasource) version 1.8.0 or later, which needs Grafana 11.2+. Older plugin versions return a different response layout and query_cloud_logging reports an error asking for an upgrade.

  • List Cloud Logging projects: Discover the GCP project IDs the datasource can read logs from.
  • List Cloud Logging buckets and views: Discover log buckets and log views to scope a query.
  • Query Cloud Logging: Run Cloud Logging query language filters (e.g. resource.type="k8s_container" AND severity>=ERROR) with time range and limit; returns entries newest-first with severity, body, labels, and trace ID. GCP authentication is handled by the datasource configuration.

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.

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.

Quickwit Querying

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

  • Query Quickwit: Execute search queries against Quickwit datasources using Lucene query syntax or partial Elasticsearch-compatible Query DSL. Supports filtering by time range and retrieving logs or other indexed documents. Returns documents with their index, ID, source fields, and optional relevance score.

Agent Observability

Note: Agent Observability tools are disabled by default and work only in Grafana Cloud. To enable them, add agento11y to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • List and search conversations: List recent LLM conversations or search them with a filter expression (model, provider, agent, status, error type, eval results, and more) over a time range. Search results include error counts, rating summaries, evaluation summaries, and trace IDs.
  • Get conversation detail: Fetch a single conversation with all its generations, including prompts and outputs.
  • Get generation detail and scores: Fetch a single generation by ID, and its evaluation scores (evaluator, score key, value, passed, explanation).
  • Read the agent catalog: List the agents that send telemetry, fetch one agent version in full (complete system prompt, every tool with its JSON schema, and the models it ran on), walk an agent's version history, and compare evaluation score aggregates per version. Effective versions are sha256: hashes that a tool change never affects; for an agent that reports no version of its own they hash the system prompt, so a prompt edit mints a new version. Catalog and version rows carry a token_estimate, which is worth checking before fetching a full prompt.
  • Inspect evaluators and templates: Read the evaluators a score came from, the templates they were derived from, and the judge providers and models available to LLM-judge evaluators. With write tools enabled, also create, fork, test, and delete evaluators.
  • Inspect eval rules and guards: Read the asynchronous eval rules that bind evaluators to production traffic, and the guards (hook rules) that run inline and can warn or deny. With write tools enabled, also create, update, preview, and delete them. Writes and the non-persisting preview_rule and test_evaluator operations need the grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write permission, granted by the Agento11y Admin role.
  • Curate saved conversations and collections: Read the saved conversations (bookmarks that give a conversation a stable ID, name, and tags) and the collections that group them, including each collection's member count and the collections embedded in every saved-conversation row. With write tools enabled, also bookmark a conversation, create and edit collections, and add or remove members. These writes need the same grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write permission.
  • Read and edit test suites: List the versioned test suites that offline experiments run against, read one with its full version history, and page through the test cases of a version. With write tools enabled, also create a suite, rename or retag it, open a draft version, publish it, and write or delete its test cases. A published version is frozen, so an edit means opening a new draft. These writes need grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write.
  • Read offline experiments: List the evaluation runs over a test suite and read one with its headline pass rate, cost, and token totals. Drill down through a per-test-case report to trials, their scores with each judge's explanation, and their artifact metadata. With write tools enabled, also rename or retag an experiment and cancel a running one, which need grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write. Experiments are created by SDK runners, not by this tool.

Grafana Assistant

Note: Assistant tools are disabled by default and require the Grafana Assistant plugin (grafana-assistant-app) to be installed on the target Grafana instance. They are also write tools (the assistant may mutate stack state), so they are skipped when --disable-write is set. To enable them, add assistant to your --enabled-tools flag.

  • Ask the assistant: Send a natural-language prompt to Grafana Assistant and wait for the full text reply. The assistant may use tools, metrics, logs, and other stack context—broader than firing one isolated data-source query. Pass the returned contextId back in a follow-up call to continue the same conversation. Complex tasks can take several minutes; the call blocks until the reply is done or the request times out (5 minutes).

Incidents

  • Search, create, and update incidents: Manage incidents in Grafana Incident, including searching, creating, adding activities, and reading or setting custom fields.

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.

User

  • User info: Get the current Grafana identity — login, email, name, whether it is a Grafana (server) admin, the current organization, and the organizations the credential can access (with roles). Use it to discover valid orgId values for multi-organization requests.

Navigation

  • Generate deeplinks: Create accurate deeplink URLs for Grafana resources instead of relying on LLM URL guessing.
    • Dashboard links: Generate direct links to dashboards using their UID (e.g., http://localhost:3000/d/dashboard-uid)
    • Panel links: Create links to specific panels within dashboards with viewPanel parameter (e.g., http://localhost:3000/d/dashboard-uid?viewPanel=5)
    • Explore links: Generate links to Grafana Explore with pre-configured datasources (e.g., http://localhost:3000/explore?schemaVersion=1&panes={"a":{"datasource":"prometheus-uid"}}). Grafana below 10.2 does not understand panes, so the legacy ?left={...} format is emitted for those versions instead.
    • Time range support: Add time range parameters to links (from=now-1h&to=now)
    • Custom parameters: Include additional query parameters like dashboard variables or refresh intervals

Annotations

  • Get Annotations: Query annotations with filters. Supports time range, dashboard UID, tags, and match mode.
  • Create Annotation: Create a new annotation on a dashboard or panel.
  • Create Graphite Annotation: Create annotations using Graphite format (what, when, tags, data).
  • Update Annotation: Replace all fields of an existing annotation (full update).
  • Patch Annotation: Update only specific fields of an annotation (partial update).
  • Delete Annotation: Permanently delete an annotation by ID.
  • Get Annotation Tags: List available annotation tags with optional filtering.

Snapshots

  • List snapshots: List dashboard snapshots with optional query and limit filters.
  • Get snapshot: Retrieve snapshot metadata and dashboard payload by snapshot key.
  • Create snapshot: Create a dashboard snapshot from a full dashboard payload, with optional expiration and external snapshot options.
  • Delete snapshot: Delete a snapshot by snapshot key.

Rendering

  • Get panel or dashboard image: Render a Grafana dashboard panel or full dashboard as a PNG image. Returns the image as base64 encoded data for use in reports, alerts, or presentations. Supports customizing dimensions, time range, theme, scale, and dashboard variables. Also supports rendering not-yet-applied dashboards from a provisioning repository branch (e.g. a git-sync PR preview) via the optional provisioningPreview parameter.

Provisioning

  • List provisioning repositories: List provisioning repositories configured for this Grafana instance (e.g. git-sync sources), returning each repository's slug along with its source URL, branch, path, sync state, and health.
  • Validate provisioning file: Dry-run-apply a file from a provisioning repository at a given branch or commit. Returns whether it would be accepted, the resource action (create/update), the target resource type, and any structured validation errors — the same admission surface Grafana's PR commenter uses.

The list of tools is configurable, so you can choose which tools you want to make available to the MCP client. This is useful if you don't use certain functionality or if you don't want to take up too much of the context window. To disable a category of tools, use the --disable-<category> flag when starting the server. For example, to disable the OnCall tools, use --disable-oncall, or to disable navigation deeplink generation, use --disable-navigation.

RBAC Permissions

Each tool requires specific RBAC permissions to function properly. When creating a service account for the MCP server, ensure it has the necessary permissions based on which tools you plan to use. The permissions listed are the minimum required actions - you may also need appropriate scopes (e.g., datasources:*, dashboards:*, folders:*) depending on your use case.

Tip: If you're not familiar with Grafana RBAC or you want a quicker, simpler setup instead of configuring many granular scopes, you can assign a built-in role such as Editor to the service account. The Editor role grants broad read/write access that will allow most MCP server operations; it is less granular (and therefore less restrictive) than manually-applied scopes, so use it only when convenience is more important than strict least-privilege access.

Note: Grafana Incident tools use basic Grafana roles instead of fine-grained RBAC permissions:

  • Viewer role: Required for read-only operations (list incidents, get investigations)
  • Editor role: Required for write operations (create incidents, modify investigations)

For more information about Grafana RBAC, see the official documentation.

RBAC Scopes

Scopes define the specific resources that permissions apply to. Each action requires both the appropriate permission and scope combination.

Common Scope Patterns:

  • Broad access: Use * wildcards for organization-wide access

    • datasources:* - Access to all datasources
    • dashboards:* - Access to all dashboards
    • folders:* - Access to all folders
    • teams:* - Access to all teams
  • Limited access: Use specific UIDs or IDs to restrict access to individual resources

    • datasources:uid:prometheus-uid - Access only to a specific Prometheus datasource
    • dashboards:uid:abc123 - Access only to dashboard with UID abc123
    • folders:uid:xyz789 - Access only to folder with UID xyz789
    • teams:id:5 - Access only to team with ID 5
    • global.users:id:123 - Access only to user with ID 123

Examples:

  • Full MCP server access: Grant broad permissions for all tools

    datasources:* (datasources:read, datasources:query)
    dashboards:* (dashboards:read, dashboards:create, dashboards:write)
    folders:* (for dashboard creation and alert rules)
    teams:* (teams:read)
    global.users:* (users:read)
    
  • Limited datasource access: Only query specific Prometheus and Loki instances

    datasources:uid:prometheus-prod (datasources:query)
    datasources:uid:loki-prod (datasources:query)
    
  • Dashboard-specific access: Read only specific dashboards

    dashboards:uid:monitoring-dashboard (dashboards:read)
    dashboards:uid:alerts-dashboard (dashboards:read)
    

Tools

ToolCategoryDescriptionRequired RBAC PermissionsRequired Scopes
list_teamsAdminList all teamsteams:readteams:* or teams:id:1
list_users_by_orgAdminList all users in an organizationusers:readglobal.users:* or global.users:id:123
list_all_rolesAdminList all Grafana rolesroles:readroles:*
get_role_detailsAdminGet details for a Grafana roleroles:readroles:uid:editor
get_role_assignmentsAdminList assignments for a roleroles:readroles:uid:editor
list_user_rolesAdminList roles for usersroles:readglobal.users:id:123
list_team_rolesAdminList roles for teamsroles:readteams:id:7
get_resource_permissionsAdminList permissions for a resourcepermissions:readdashboards:uid:abcd1234
get_resource_descriptionAdminDescribe a Grafana resource typepermissions:readdashboards:*
user_infoUserCurrent identity, capabilities, and accessible organizationsNone (signed-in user)—
search_dashboardsSearchSearch for dashboards by query, folder UID, tag, or starreddashboards:readdashboards:* or dashboards:uid:abc123
get_dashboard_by_uidDashboardGet a dashboard by uid, optionally a saved versiondashboards:readdashboards:uid:abc123
list_dashboard_versionsDashboardList saved versions of a dashboard (version, author, time, message)dashboards:readdashboards:uid:abc123
update_dashboardDashboardUpdate or create a new dashboarddashboards:create, dashboards:writedashboards:*, folders:* or folders:uid:xyz789
get_dashboard_panel_queriesDashboardGet panel title, queries, datasource UID and type from a dashboarddashboards:readdashboards:uid:abc123
run_panel_queryRunPanelQuery*Execute one or more dashboard panel queriesdashboards:read, datasources:querydashboards:uid:*, datasources:uid:*
get_dashboard_propertyDashboardExtract specific parts of a dashboard using JSONPath expressionsdashboards:readdashboards:uid:abc123
get_dashboard_summaryDashboardGet a compact summary of a dashboard without full JSONdashboards:readdashboards:uid:abc123
list_datasourcesDatasourcesList datasourcesdatasources:readdatasources:*
get_datasourceDatasourcesGet a datasource by UID or namedatasources:readdatasources:uid:prometheus-uid
get_query_examplesExamples*Get example queries for a datasource typedatasources:readdatasources:*
query_prometheusPrometheusExecute a query against a Prometheus datasourcedatasources:querydatasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_metric_metadataPrometheusList metric metadatadatasources:querydatasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_metric_namesPrometheusList available metric namesdatasources:querydatasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_label_namesPrometheusList label names matching a selectordatasources:querydatasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_label_valuesPrometheusList values for a specific labeldatasources:querydatasources:uid:prometheus-uid
query_prometheus_histogramPrometheusCalculate histogram percentile valuesdatasources:querydatasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_incidentsIncidentList incidents in Grafana Incident, optionally with their custom field valuesViewer roleN/A
create_incidentIncidentCreate an incident in Grafana Incident, optionally setting custom fieldsEditor roleN/A
add_activity_to_incidentIncidentAdd an activity item to an incident in Grafana IncidentEditor roleN/A
update_incidentIncidentUpdate an incident in Grafana Incident (status, severity, title, or custom fields)Editor roleN/A
get_incidentIncidentGet a single incident by ID, including its custom fieldsViewer roleN/A
list_incident_custom_fieldsIncidentList the custom fields configured for incidents, with their types and select optionsViewer roleN/A
query_loki_logsLokiQuery and retrieve logs using LogQL (either log or metric queries)datasources:querydatasources:uid:loki-uid
list_loki_label_namesLokiList all available label names in logsdatasources:querydatasources:uid:loki-uid
list_loki_label_valuesLokiList values for a specific log labeldatasources:querydatasources:uid:loki-uid
query_loki_statsLokiGet statistics about log streamsdatasources:querydatasources:uid:loki-uid
query_loki_patternsLokiQuery detected log patterns to identify common structuresdatasources:querydatasources:uid:loki-uid
analyze_loki_labelsLokiAudit a Loki label strategy (live or static) and optionally diagnose query performancedatasources:querydatasources:uid:loki-uid
suggest_loki_alloy_label_configConfigGenerate an Alloy loki.process snippet enforcing approved labelsN/AN/A
query_influxdbInfluxDBQuery InfluxDB using InfluxQL (v1) or Flux (v2)datasources:querydatasources:uid:influxdb-uid
list_sql_databasesSQL*List databases, schemas, or catalogs from a SQL datasourcedatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_sql_tablesSQL*List tables in a SQL datasourcedatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
describe_sql_tableSQL*Get column schema for a tabledatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
query_sqlSQL*Execute SQL queries with macro substitutiondatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_cloudwatch_namespacesCloudWatch*List available AWS CloudWatch namespacesdatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_cloudwatch_metricsCloudWatch*List metrics in a namespacedatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_cloudwatch_dimensionsCloudWatch*List dimensions for a metricdatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_cloudwatch_dimension_valuesCloudWatch*List values for a dimension keydatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
query_cloudwatchCloudWatch*Execute CloudWatch metric queriesdatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_cloud_logging_projectsCloud Logging*List GCP projects readable by a Google Cloud Logging datasourcedatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_cloud_logging_bucketsCloud Logging*List log buckets in a GCP projectdatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
list_cloud_logging_viewsCloud Logging*List log views in a log bucketdatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
query_cloud_loggingCloud Logging*Query logs with the Cloud Logging query languagedatasources:querydatasources:uid:*
query_elasticsearchElasticsearch/OpenSearch*Query Elasticsearch or OpenSearch using Lucene syntax or Query DSLdatasources:querydatasources:uid:datasource-uid
query_quickwitQuickwit*Query Quickwit using Lucene syntax or Query DSLdatasources:querydatasources:uid:quickwit-uid
alerting_rules_readAlertingList and inspect alert rules (list, get, versions)alert.rules:readfolders:* or folders:uid:alerts-folder
alerting_rules_writeAlertingCreate, update, and delete alert rulesalert.rules:read + alert.rules:writefolders:* or folders:uid:alerts-folder
alerting_manage_routingAlertingManage notification policies, contact points, and time intervalsalert.notifications:readGlobal scope
alerting_routing_writeAlertingCreate Grafana-managed contact pointsalert.notifications.provisioning:writeGlobal scope
alerting_silences_readAlertingList and inspect alerting silences (list, get)alert.instances:readGlobal scope
alerting_silences_writeAlertingCreate, update, and expire alerting silencesalert.instances:read + alert.instances:writeGlobal scope
list_oncall_schedulesOnCallList schedules from Grafana OnCallgrafana-oncall-app.schedules:readPlugin-specific scopes
get_oncall_shiftOnCallGet details for a specific OnCall shiftgrafana-oncall-app.schedules:readPlugin-specific scopes
get_current_oncall_usersOnCallGet users currently on-call for a specific schedulegrafana-oncall-app.schedules:readPlugin-specific scopes
list_oncall_teamsOnCallList teams from Grafana OnCallgrafana-oncall-app.user-settings:readPlugin-specific scopes
list_oncall_usersOnCallList users from Grafana OnCallgrafana-oncall-app.user-settings:readPlugin-specific scopes
list_alert_groupsOnCallList alert groups from Grafana OnCall with filtering optionsgrafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:readPlugin-specific scopes
get_alert_groupOnCallGet a specific alert group from Grafana OnCall by its IDgrafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:readPlugin-specific scopes
update_alert_groupOnCallAcknowledge, unacknowledge, resolve, or unresolve an alert groupgrafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write (and :read)Plugin-specific scopes
list_pyroscope_label_namesPyroscopeList label names matching a selectordatasources:querydatasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
list_pyroscope_label_valuesPyroscopeList label values matching a selector for a label namedatasources:querydatasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
list_pyroscope_profile_typesPyroscopeList available profile typesdatasources:querydatasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
query_pyroscopePyroscopeQuery profiles, metrics, or both from Pyroscopedatasources:querydatasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
get_assertionsAssertsGet assertion summary for a given entityPlugin-specific permissionsPlugin-specific scopes
agento11y_manage_conversationsAgent Observability*List, search, and fetch LLM conversations from Grafana Agent Observabilitygrafana-agento11y-app.conversations:readN/A
agento11y_manage_generationsAgent Observability*Fetch LLM generation details and evaluation scores from Grafana Agent Observabilitygrafana-agento11y-app.data:readN/A
agento11y_manage_agentsAgent Observability*Read the agent catalog: list agents, get one agent version in full, list version history, and per-version score aggregatesgrafana-agento11y-app.data:readN/A
agento11y_manage_evaluatorsAgent Observability*Manage evaluators, evaluator templates, and the judge catalog (list, get, upsert, fork, test, delete)grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutations and testsN/A
agento11y_manage_eval_rulesAgent Observability*Manage eval rules and guards (list, get, create, update, preview, delete)grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutations and previewsN/A
agento11y_manage_eval_collectionsAgent Observability*Manage saved conversations and the collections that group them (list, get, save, create, update, delete, add and remove members)grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutationsN/A
agento11y_manage_experimentsAgent Observability*Read offline experiments, their trials, scores, artifact metadata, and filter facets; update and cancel an experimentgrafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutationsN/A
agento11y_manage_test_suitesAgent Observability*Manage the test suites that offline experiments run against, their versions, and their test cases (list, get, create, update, draft, publish, upsert, delete)grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutationsN/A
ask_assistantAssistant*Send a prompt to Grafana Assistant and return the full text reply (multi-turn via contextId)Plugin-specific permissionsPlugin-specific scopes
generate_deeplinkNavigationGenerate accurate deeplink URLs for Grafana resourcesNone (read-only URL generation)N/A
get_annotationsAnnotationsFetch annotations with filtersannotations:readannotations:* or annotations:id:123
create_annotationAnnotationsCreate a new annotation (standard or Graphite format)annotations:writeannotations:*
update_annotationAnnotationsUpdate specific fields of an annotation (partial update)annotations:writeannotations:*
delete_annotationAnnotationsDelete an annotation by IDannotations:deleteannotations:*
get_annotation_tagsAnnotationsList annotation tags with optional filteringannotations:readannotations:*
list_snapshotsSnapshotList dashboard snapshots with optional query and limit filtersdashboards:readdashboards:* or dashboards:uid:abc123

Installation

Source-derived launch command. Check the maintainer’s required arguments and credentials before running:

bash
docker run -i --rm docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1

Set up in your AI client

Merge this template into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. Keep existing servers. Add any arguments, credentials, and permissions required by the maintainer; this template has not been install-tested.

json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "io-github-grafana-mcp-grafana": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect. Confirm the server appears connected in the client’s tool list, then try a read-only example from its documentation.

Claude Desktop setup reference

Package

docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1docker

Compatible MCP Clients

io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana works with any MCP-compatible client. Copy the config snippet from the Configuration section above and add it to the file shown for your client, then restart the application.

  • Claude Desktop~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonRestart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect.
  • Cursor~/.cursor/mcp.jsonRestart Cursor for changes to take effect.
  • VS Code.vscode/mcp.jsonReload VS Code window for changes to take effect.
  • Windsurf~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonRestart Windsurf for changes to take effect.
  • Claude Code.mcp.jsonSave at the project root, then start Claude Code in that project and review the MCP server approval prompt. Keep real credentials out of shared files.

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