grafana mcp server

About Grafana MCP Server

The Grafana MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol server that provides AI agents and LLMs with comprehensive access to Grafana and its observability ecosystem. This server enables intelligent automation and interaction with Grafana resources including dashboards, datasources, metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and incident management.

Key Capabilities

Dashboards

• Search and retrieve dashboards
• Get dashboard summaries and properties via JSONPath
• Create, update, and patch dashboards
• Query panel information and datasource details

Datasources

• List and fetch datasource configurations
• Support for Prometheus and Loki datasources
• Query metrics and logs through integrated datasources

Prometheus Integration

• Query metrics (instant and range queries)
• Retrieve metric metadata (metric names, label values)
• Access metric cardinality and time series information

Loki Integration

• Query logs and log metrics
• Retrieve label metadata and log stream statistics
• Search and analyze log data

Alerting

• List and fetch alert rules and their statuses
• Manage contact points for both Grafana-managed and external Alertmanagers
• Monitor alert configurations and notifications

Incident Management

• Search, create, and update incidents
• Add activities and annotations to incidents
• Track incident lifecycle and resolution

Grafana OnCall

• Manage on-call schedules and shifts
• Query current on-call users
• List and manage teams and users
• Handle alert groups with filtering capabilities

Sift Investigations

• List and retrieve investigations
• Analyze error patterns in logs
• Identify slow requests in Tempo traces
• Get investigation analyses and insights

Additional Features

• Read-only mode support for safe access
• Configurable tool categories (search, datasource, alerting, etc.)
• Debug mode for detailed logging
• Multiple transport options (stdio, SSE, streamable-http)

Requirements

• Grafana version 9.0 or later for full functionality
• Appropriate API credentials and permissions

For more details, see the official documentation.