# Grafana MCP Server shipped an update

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> Published: 2026-09-23 08:11:07+00:00

# Grafana MCP Server

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

## Sources and review

Checked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

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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