# Grafana MCP Server

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

## Facts
- **Category:** [MCP Servers](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/mcp-servers)
- **Type:** MCP server
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 3,483
- **Language:** Go
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 23, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana
- **Source code:** https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/grafana-mcp
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
On-call engineers who want an assistant to pull metrics and logs while investigating incidents.

## Avoid if
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.

## Connect to an MCP client
Launch command from the project's README: `GRAFANA_URL=http://localhost:3000 GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=<your-token> uvx mcp-grafana`

### Claude Code (Run in your terminal)

```shell
claude mcp add grafana-mcp -e GRAFANA_URL=http://localhost:3000 -e 'GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=<your-token>' -- uvx mcp-grafana
```

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

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-grafana"],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<your-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

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

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "grafana-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-grafana"],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<your-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-grafana"],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<your-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex (~/.codex/config.toml)

```toml
[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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