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Grafana's official MCP server for dashboards, datasources, Prometheus and Loki queries and more.

Sources and review #

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On-call engineers who want an assistant to pull metrics and logs while investigating incidents.

You run a Grafana version older than 9.0; some datasource features rely on newer APIs.

About Grafana MCP Server #

Grafana Labs' MCP server gives AI assistants access to a Grafana instance and its ecosystem: search dashboards, run panel queries, and query datasources including Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB and SQL sources. It works with self-hosted Grafana and Grafana Cloud, authenticating with a service account token, and can run through uv, Docker, a binary or Helm.

Grafana MCP Server is an open-source project written primarily in Go, with 3.5k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Add Grafana MCP Server to your MCP client #

Generated from the launch command in the project's README. Your client starts the server on demand. Replace <your-token> with your own value first.

Claude Code #

claude mcp add grafana-mcp -e GRAFANA_URL=http://localhost:3000 -e 'GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=<your-token>' -- uvx mcp-grafana

Cursor #

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

VS Code #

{
  "servers": {
    "grafana-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-grafana"],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<your-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop #

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

Codex #

[mcp_servers.grafana-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-grafana"]
env = { GRAFANA_URL = "http://localhost:3000", GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN = "<your-token>" }

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