# MCP Grafana (MCP server)

> MCP Grafana is an MCP server that adds cloud and DevOps tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. An MCP server giving access to Grafana dashboards, data… It has 3,530 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e GRAFANA_URL -e GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN -e GRAFANA_PASSWORD docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1.

A [Model Context Protocol][mcp] (MCP) server for Grafana. This provides access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana |
| GitHub stars | 3,530 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Language | Go |
| Transport | stdio, streamable-http |
| Packages | docker: docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1 |
| Remote URL | https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp |
| Needs API key | yes |
| Official | yes |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Claude.ai, ChatGPT |
| Category | Cloud & DevOps |
| Latest release | v2.0.1 (Oct 6, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |
| MCP registry name | io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_URL",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "your-value",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "your-value",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

### Claude Code

```sh
claude mcp add --env GRAFANA_URL=your-value --env GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=your-value --env GRAFANA_PASSWORD=your-value --transport stdio mcp-grafana -- docker run -i --rm -e GRAFANA_URL -e GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN -e GRAFANA_PASSWORD docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1
```

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_URL",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "your-value",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "your-value",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

### VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json)

```json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "grafana_service_account_token",
      "description": "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "grafana_password",
      "description": "GRAFANA_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_URL",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN",
        "-e",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:2.0.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "your-value",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "${input:grafana_service_account_token}",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "${input:grafana_password}"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Claude Code (remote)

```sh
claude mcp add --transport http mcp-grafana "https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp"
```

The same server is also hosted as a remote MCP endpoint, so nothing runs on your machine.

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

## Environment variables

- `GRAFANA_URL` (required): URL to your Grafana instance
- `GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN` (secret): Service account token used to authenticate with your Grafana instance
- `GRAFANA_USERNAME`: Username to authenticate with your Grafana instance
- `GRAFANA_PASSWORD` (secret): Password to authenticate with your Grafana instance
- `GRAFANA_ORG_ID`: Organization ID for multi-org support. Can also be set via X-Grafana-Org-Id header in SSE/streamable HTTP transports.
- `GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS`: JSON object of additional HTTP headers to send with all Grafana API requests
- `GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS`: Comma-separated list of HTTP header names to forward from the incoming request to Grafana (SSE/streamable-http only). Example: Cookie,X-Session-Id

## Tools

- `list_teams`: Admin
- `list_users_by_org`: Admin
- `list_all_roles`: Admin
- `get_role_details`: Admin
- `get_role_assignments`: Admin
- `list_user_roles`: Admin
- `list_team_roles`: Admin
- `get_resource_permissions`: Admin
- `get_resource_description`: Admin
- `user_info`: User
- `search_dashboards`: Search
- `get_dashboard_by_uid`: Dashboard
- `list_dashboard_versions`: Dashboard
- `update_dashboard`: Dashboard
- `get_dashboard_panel_queries`: Dashboard
- `run_panel_query`: RunPanelQuery*
- `get_dashboard_property`: Dashboard
- `get_dashboard_summary`: Dashboard
- `list_datasources`: Datasources
- `get_datasource`: Datasources
- `get_query_examples`: Examples*
- `query_prometheus`: Prometheus
- `list_prometheus_metric_metadata`: Prometheus
- `list_prometheus_metric_names`: Prometheus
- `list_prometheus_label_names`: Prometheus
- `list_prometheus_label_values`: Prometheus
- `query_prometheus_histogram`: Prometheus
- `list_incidents`: Incident
- `create_incident`: Incident
- `add_activity_to_incident`: Incident
- `update_incident`: Incident
- `get_incident`: Incident
- `list_incident_custom_fields`: Incident
- `query_loki_logs`: Loki
- `list_loki_label_names`: Loki
- `list_loki_label_values`: Loki
- `query_loki_stats`: Loki
- `query_loki_patterns`: Loki
- `analyze_loki_labels`: Loki
- `suggest_loki_alloy_label_config`: Config

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