Grafana MCP server

This is a helper that connects your AI assistant to Grafana, the tool many teams use to watch their systems and see charts of what is happening. Once it is set up, you can just ask your AI questions in plain words instead of clicking around Grafana yourself. It is handy for anyone who checks dashboards, alerts, or logs as part of their job.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about your Grafana setup, like which dashboards exist or whether an alert is firing. The AI passes your request to this helper program. The helper talks to your Grafana instance using a special access token you set up. Grafana sends back the matching dashboards, alert statuses, or data. Your AI then turns that into a plain answer in the chat.

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What you can do with it

• Search for dashboards by name, folder, or tag
• Check which alert rules are firing or normal
• Look up details of a specific dashboard
• Query data from sources like Prometheus or Loki
• Search, create, and update incidents
• List Sift investigations and find error patterns in logs
• Ask the Grafana Assistant a question

Try asking your AI

• “Which dashboards do we have about payments?”
• “Are any alerts firing right now?”
• “Show me the error rate for the checkout service over the last hour”
• “List the open incidents and what happened in each”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, like a list of dashboard names, a summary of an alert's status, or numbers from a query. It can also show details such as panel titles and the data source behind them. If you ask it to change something, like creating an incident, it tells you what it did.

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Who it's for

People who monitor systems, like engineers, on-call staff, and anyone who checks dashboards or alerts regularly.