Grafana MCP server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Grafana.

This provides access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem.

Features

• Search for dashboards
• Get dashboard by UID
• List and fetch datasource information
• Query datasources
  • Prometheus
  • Loki
    • Log queries
    • Metric queries
  • Tempo
  • Pyroscope
• 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
• Start Sift investigations and view the results
• Alerting
  • List and fetch alert rule information
  • Get alert rule statuses (firing/normal/error/etc.)
  • Create and change alert rules
  • List contact points
  • Create and change contact points
• Access Grafana OnCall functionality
  • List and manage schedules
  • Get shift details
  • Get current on-call users
  • List teams and users
  • List alert groups

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.

Tools

Usage

1. Create a service account in Grafana with enough permissions to use the tools you want to use, generate a service account token, and copy it to the clipboard for use in the configuration file. Follow the Grafana documentation for details.

2. Download the latest release of mcp-grafana from the releases page and place it in your $PATH.

   If you have a Go toolchain installed you can also build and install it from source, using the GOBIN environment variable to specify the directory where the binary should be installed. This should also be in your PATH.

   GOBIN="$HOME/go/bin" go install github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana/cmd/mcp-grafana@latest
   

3. 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 Error: spawn mcp-grafana ENOENT in Claude Desktop, you need to specify the full path to mcp-grafana.

Development

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request if you have any suggestions or improvements.

This project is written in Go. Install Go following the instructions for your platform.

To run the server, use:

make run

You can also run the server using the SSE transport inside Docker. To build the image, use

make build-image

And to run the image, use:

docker run -it --rm -p 8000:8000 mcp-grafana:latest

Testing

There are three types of tests available:

1. Unit Tests (no external dependencies required):

make test-unit

You can also run unit tests with:

make test

2. Integration Tests (requires docker containers to be up and running):

make test-integration

3. Cloud Tests (requires cloud Grafana instance and credentials):

make test-cloud

Note: Cloud tests are automatically configured in CI. For local development, you'll need to set up your own Grafana Cloud instance and credentials.

More comprehensive integration tests will require a Grafana instance to be running locally on port 3000; you can start one with Docker Compose:

docker-compose up -d

The integration tests can be run with:

make test-all

If you're adding more tools, please add integration tests for them. The existing tests should be a good starting point.

Linting

To lint the code, run:

make lint

License

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