grafana-mcp

MCP server for AI-assisted Grafana dashboard, datasource, alerting, and incident management.

Install

If the official marketplace isn’t added yet, run

Category: Monitoring
Author: Grafana
GitHub: grafana/ai-marketplace
Website: grafana.com

Good for

Manage dashboards and datasources on self-hosted Grafana
Work with alerting and incidents
Access Grafana with a service-account token

Getting started

Make sure Docker is installed and running
Create a Grafana service account with at least the Viewer role (Editor for writes) and generate a token
Set the GRAFANA_URL and GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN environment variables
Run /plugin install grafana-mcp@claude-plugins-official in Claude Code

Before you install

Meant for self-hosted Grafana or token-based access; it runs the mcp-grafana server locally in Docker. Grafana Cloud users should use grafana-cloud-mcp instead.

Summarized by AI from the project docs; check the official docs before relying on it.

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