📌Overview

Purpose: The MCP server for Grafana facilitates access to Grafana instances and enhances interaction with its ecosystem.

Overview: This framework allows users to interact with Grafana's features by providing tools for searching dashboards, managing data sources, querying metrics, and handling incidents. The server is designed to be configurable, catering to specific user needs and optimizing the context window.

Key Features:

Search Dashboards: Enables users to search for and retrieve dashboards, enhancing discoverability and accessibility.
Datasource Management: Lists and fetches information on various data sources, allowing users to manage connections effectively.
Querying Capabilities: Supports querying of Prometheus and Loki for both metrics and logs, enabling detailed analysis and insights.
Incident Management: Facilitates search, creation, update, and closure of incidents, improving operational response times.
Alerting System: Offers features to manage alert rules, including listing and fetching alert rule information, which helps maintain system reliability.

Grafana MCP server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Grafana that provides access to your Grafana instance and its ecosystem.

Features

Search for dashboards
Get dashboard by UID
List and fetch datasource information
Query datasources
- Prometheus
- Loki
  - Log queries
  - Metric queries
- Tempo (planned)
- Pyroscope (planned)
Query Prometheus metadata
- Metric metadata
- Metric names
- Label names
- Label values
Query Loki metadata
- Label names
- Label values
- Stats
Search, create, update, and close incidents
Alerting
- List and fetch alert rule information
- Get alert rule statuses (firing/normal/error/etc.)
- List contact points
Access Grafana OnCall functionality
- List and manage schedules
- Get shift details
- Get current on-call users
- List teams and users

The list of tools is configurable; you can choose which tools to make available to the MCP client. To disable a category of tools, use the --disable-<category> flag when starting the server, e.g., --disable-oncall disables OnCall tools.

Tools

Tool	Category	Description
`search_dashboards`	Search	Search for dashboards
`get_dashboard_by_uid`	Dashboard	Get a dashboard by UID
`list_datasources`	Datasources	List datasources
`get_datasource_by_uid`	Datasources	Get a datasource by UID
`get_datasource_by_name`	Datasources	Get a datasource by name
`query_prometheus`	Prometheus	Execute a query against a Prometheus datasource
`list_prometheus_metric_metadata`	Prometheus	List metric metadata
`list_prometheus_metric_names`	Prometheus	List available metric names
`list_prometheus_label_names`	Prometheus	List label names matching a selector
`list_prometheus_label_values`	Prometheus	List values for a specific label
`list_incidents`	Incident	List incidents in Grafana Incident
`create_incident`	Incident	Create an incident in Grafana Incident
`add_activity_to_incident`	Incident	Add an activity item to an incident in Grafana Incident
`resolve_incident`	Incident	Resolve an incident in Grafana Incident
`query_loki_logs`	Loki	Query and retrieve logs using LogQL (log or metric queries)
`list_loki_label_names`	Loki	List all available label names in logs
`list_loki_label_values`	Loki	List values for a specific log label
`query_loki_stats`	Loki	Get statistics about log streams
`list_alert_rules`	Alerting	List alert rules
`get_alert_rule_by_uid`	Alerting	Get alert rule by UID
`list_oncall_schedules`	OnCall	List schedules from Grafana OnCall
`get_oncall_shift`	OnCall	Get details for a specific OnCall shift
`get_current_oncall_users`	OnCall	Get users currently on-call for a specific schedule
`list_oncall_teams`	OnCall	List teams from Grafana OnCall
`list_oncall_users`	OnCall	List users from Grafana OnCall

Usage

Create a service account in Grafana with appropriate permissions and generate a service account token. Follow the Grafana documentation for details.
Download the latest release of mcp-grafana from the releases page and place it in your $PATH.

If you have a Go toolchain installed, build and install from source:
```
GOBIN="$HOME/go/bin" go install github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana/cmd/mcp-grafana@latest
```

Add the server configuration to your client configuration file. For example, for Claude Desktop:

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

Note: If you see the error Error: spawn mcp-grafana ENOENT in Claude Desktop, specify the full path to mcp-grafana.

Debug Mode

Enable debug mode by adding the -debug flag to the command for detailed logging of HTTP requests and responses between the MCP server and Grafana API.

Example configuration for Claude Desktop with debug enabled:

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

Development

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request for suggestions or improvements.

This project is written in Go. Follow your platform-specific instructions to install Go.

To run the server:

make run

To build and run the server using Docker with SSE transport:

make build-image
docker run -it --rm -p 8000:8000 mcp-grafana:latest

Testing

Available tests:

Unit Tests (no external dependencies):
```
make test-unit
```
or
```
make test
```
Integration Tests (require Docker containers running):
```
make test-integration
```
Cloud Tests (require a cloud Grafana instance and credentials):
```
make test-cloud
```

Note: Cloud tests are configured automatically in CI. For local runs, set up your own Grafana Cloud instance and credentials.

Run integration tests locally after starting Grafana (e.g., on port 3000):

docker-compose up -d
make test-all

Linting

To lint the code:

make lint

Includes a custom linter checking for unescaped commas in jsonschema struct tags. To run only this linter:

make lint-jsonschema

See the JSONSchema Linter documentation for details.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.