Set up Grafana

Search dashboards, query Prometheus and Loki data sources, and manage alerts and incidents in Grafana.

Publisher

Grafana Labs Official

Run locally

uvx mcp-grafana

Transports

stdio, sse, streamable-http

Authentication

A Grafana service account token, plus the instance address in GRAFANA_URL.

Environment

GRAFANA_URLGRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN

What it can touch

Read and write; --disable-write makes it read-only.

Licence

Apache-2.0

Source

github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana

Status

Active

Install

This server runs on your machine as a child process of the client. You need the runtime its command uses, such as Node.js for npx, uv for uvx or Docker, plus any variables listed under Environment.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope project --env GRAFANA_URL='<GRAFANA_URL>' --env GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN='<GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN>' grafana -- uvx mcp-grafana

Cursor

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-grafana"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "${env:GRAFANA_URL}",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "${env:GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Codex

[mcp_servers.grafana]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-grafana"]
env_vars = ["GRAFANA_URL", "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN"]

Config for other clients →

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