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Grafana

MCP

Official Grafana MCP.

Dashboards and datasources from Grafana’s own image — the org you authenticate.

latest·Apache-2.0·Updated this quarter·github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana·Transport: stdio

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claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_URL",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_API_KEY",
        "grafana/mcp-grafana"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "…",
        "GRAFANA_API_KEY": "…"
      }
    }
  }
}

By Grafana

Spec

What the server actually exposes.

  • list_dashboards

    read

    Dashboards in the org.

  • query

    read

    A datasource query.

  • annotations

    read

    Annotations on a dashboard.

Guardrails

  • Credentials stay in env
  • Read-first unless a write tool is called
  • Official package, not a wrapper

grafana-mcp.mcp/tools

Tools

  • list_dashboards

    Dashboards in the org.

    read

  • query

    A datasource query.

    read

  • annotations

    Annotations on a dashboard.

    read

Last call

{ "ok": true,
  "tool": "list_dashboards",
  "rows": 12 }

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