Grafana MCP Server
Updated June 2026✓ OfficialThe Grafana MCP server, built by Grafana Labs, provides the official Grafana MCP server connects Claude and other AI assistants directly to your Grafana instance and its surrounding observability ecosystem, turning natural-language questions into dashboard lookups, incident investigations, and datasource queries. It is officially maintained and best for DevOps & CI/CD.
by Grafana Labs
About
The official Grafana MCP server connects Claude and other AI assistants directly to your Grafana instance and its surrounding observability ecosystem, turning natural-language questions into dashboard lookups, incident investigations, and datasource queries. Dashboard tools cover search, retrieval, JSONPath-scoped property extraction, patch-based editing, and per-panel query/datasource introspection, with context-window-aware helpers like get_dashboard_summary so an agent never has to pull a full multi-megabyte dashboard JSON just to answer a simple question. Query tools speak PromQL against Prometheus (including histogram-percentile helpers), LogQL against Loki, and native query languages for InfluxDB, ClickHouse, CloudWatch, Graphite, Athena, Snowflake, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and Quickwit datasources — most gated behind opt-in --enabled-tools flags to keep the default tool surface lean. It also wraps Grafana Incident for creating and updating incidents, Sift for automated error-pattern and slow-request investigations, full alerting CRUD (rules, contact points, notification policies) across Grafana-managed and external Alertmanager sources, Grafana OnCall schedule/shift/alert-group management, RBAC-gated admin tools for teams/users/roles, deeplink generation so the LLM never has to guess a dashboard URL, annotations, snapshots, PNG rendering via the Grafana Image Renderer, and provisioning-repo validation for git-sync workflows. Ships as a Go binary or via uvx, authenticates with a Grafana service account token (Editor role or granular RBAC scopes), and every tool category can be individually disabled to control context-window usage.
Installation
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- Grafana Labs
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