mcp-grafana is officially maintained by Grafana Labs and offers broad coverage of the Grafana ecosystem — dashboards, alerting, many datasource types, incident management, OnCall, annotations, snapshots, and rendering — with fine-grained per-category tool toggles and a read-only mode. The main risks center on credential handling and scoping write access appropriately: configure least-privilege RBAC for the service account, avoid enabling write tools unless needed, and selectively enable only the datasource/tool categories actually in use to limit context usage and attack surface.
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GRAFANA_URL
URL of your Grafana instance, e.g. http://localhost:3000 or https://<instance>.grafana.net
GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN
Service account token created in Grafana under Service accounts administration
GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN_FILE
Path to a file holding the token, re-read on every request to support rotation in Kubernetes
GRAFANA_PASSWORD
Grafana password for basic auth
GRAFANA_API_KEY
Deprecated legacy API key variable; migrate to GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN
GRAFANA_USERNAME
Grafana username for basic auth
GRAFANA_ORG_ID
Numeric organization ID for multi-org support
GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS
JSON object of extra HTTP headers sent with all Grafana API requests
GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS
Comma-separated HTTP header names forwarded from the incoming request to Grafana in SSE/streamable-http mode
{"mcpServers":{"grafana":{"command":"uvx","args":["mcp-grafana"],"env":{"GRAFANA_URL":"http://localhost:3000","GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN":"<your service account token>"}}}}
Shown for Claude Desktop. Other clients may use a different file or key (VS Code uses "servers") — the configurator below converts it.
{
"servers": {
"grafana": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-grafana"
],
"env": {
"GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
"GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<your service account token>"
}
}
}
}
Goes in your project's .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code uses a "servers" key).
claude mcp add grafana -e GRAFANA_URL=http://localhost:3000 -e 'GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=<your service account token>' -- uvx mcp-grafana
Run it in a terminal; replace any <…> placeholders with your own values first.
After connecting, the client's tool list should include tools like search_dashboards and list_datasources from the grafana server; running a query_prometheus call that returns data confirms the connection works.
Once connected, you can ask your AI assistant things like:
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mcp-grafana is the official Model Context Protocol server maintained by Grafana Labs, giving AI assistants access to a Grafana instance and its surrounding ecosystem. It covers dashboard search and editing, querying across many datasource types (Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Athena, Snowflake, Graphite, Quickwit, Pyroscope), alert rule and notification routing management, Grafana Incident management, Sift root-cause investigations, OnCall scheduling, annotations, snapshots, panel/dashboard image rendering, Agent Observability, Grafana Assistant, and provisioning-repository validation. Tools are grouped into categories that can be enabled or disabled via CLI flags, and the server can run in read-only mode with --disable-write.
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