Mcp Grafana

Grafana MCP server

A [Model Context Protocol][mcp] (MCP) server for Grafana.

This provides access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem.

Quick Start

Requires uv. Add the following to your MCP client configuration (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor):

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

For Grafana Cloud, replace GRAFANA_URL with your instance URL (e.g. https://myinstance.grafana.net). See Usage for more installation options including Docker, binary, and Helm.

Requirements

• Grafana version 9.0 or later is required for full functionality. Some features, particularly datasource-related operations, may not work correctly with earlier versions due to missing API endpoints.

Features

The following features are currently available in MCP server. This list is for informational purposes only and does not represent a roadmap or commitment to future features.

Dashboards

• Search for dashboards: Find dashboards by title or other metadata
• Get dashboard by UID: Retrieve full dashboard details using its unique identifier. Warning: Large dashboards can consume significant context window space.
• Get dashboard summary: Get a compact overview of a dashboard including title, panel count, panel types, variables, and metadata without the full JSON to minimize context window usage
• Get dashboard property: Extract specific parts of a dashboard using JSONPath expressions (e.g., $.title, $.panels[*].title) to fetch only needed data and reduce context window consumption
• Update or create a dashboard: Modify existing dashboards or create new ones. Warning: Requires full dashboard JSON which can consume large amounts of context window space.
• Patch dashboard: Apply specific changes to a dashboard without requiring the full JSON, significantly reducing context window usage for targeted modifications
• Get panel queries and datasource info: Get the title, query string, and datasource information (including UID and type, if available) from every panel in a dashboard

Run Panel Query

Note: Run panel query tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add runpanelquery to your --enabled-tools flag.

• Run panel query: Execute a dashboard panel's query with custom time ranges and variable overrides.

Context Window Management

The dashboard tools now include several strategies to manage context window usage effectively (issue #101):

• Use get_dashboard_summary for dashboard overview and planning modifications
• Use get_dashboard_property with JSONPath when you only need specific dashboard parts
• Avoid get_dashboard_by_uid unless you specifically need the complete dashboard JSON

Datasources

• List and fetch datasource information: View all configured datasources and retrieve detailed information about each.
  • Supported datasource types: Prometheus, Loki, ClickHouse, CloudWatch, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Snowflake, Athena.

Query Examples

Note: Query examples tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add examples to your --enabled-tools flag.

• Get query examples: Retrieve example queries for different datasource types to learn query syntax.

Prometheus Querying

• Query Prometheus: Execute PromQL queries (supports both instant and range metric queries) against Prometheus datasources.
• Query Prometheus metadata: Retrieve metric metadata, metric names, label names, and label values from Prometheus datasources.
• Query histogram percentiles: Calculate histogram percentile values (p50, p90, p95, p99) using histogram_quantile.

Loki Querying

• Query Loki logs and metrics: Run both log queries and metric queries using LogQL against Loki datasources.
• Query Loki metadata: Retrieve label names, label values, and stream statistics from Loki datasources.
• Query Loki patterns: Retrieve log patterns detected by Loki to identify common log structures and anomalies.

InfluxDB Querying

Note: InfluxDB tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add influxdb to your --enabled-tools flag.

• Query InfluxDB: Execute queries against InfluxDB datasources using either InfluxQL (v1.x) or Flux (v2.x). The dialect is inferred from the datasource configuration, or can be set explicitly via the dialect parameter.

ClickHouse Querying

Note: ClickHouse tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add clickhouse to your --enabled-tools flag.

• List ClickHouse tables: List all tables in a ClickHouse database with row counts and sizes.
• Describe table schema: Get column names, types, and metadata for a ClickHouse table.
• Query ClickHouse: Execute SQL queries with Grafana macro and variable substitution support.

CloudWatch Querying

Note: CloudWatch tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add cloudwatch to your --enabled-tools flag.

• List CloudWatch namespaces: Discover available AWS CloudWatch namespaces.
• List CloudWatch metrics: List metrics available in a specific namespace.
• List CloudWatch dimensions: Get dimensions for filtering metric queries.
• Query CloudWatch: Execute CloudWatch metric queries with time range support.

Graphite Querying

Note: Graphite tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add graphite to your --enabled-tools flag.

• Query Graphite: Execute Graphite render API queries against a Graphite datasource.
• List Graphite metrics: Browse and discover Graphite metric paths.
• List Graphite tags: List available Graphite tags and tag values.
• Query Graphite density: Query Graphite metric density for a given pattern.

Athena Querying

Note: Athena tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add athena to your --enabled-tools flag.

• List Athena catalogs: Discover available data catalogs (e.g. AwsDataCatalog, Iceberg connectors).
• List Athena databases: List databases in an Athena catalog.
• List Athena tables: List tables in an Athena database.
• Describe Athena table: Get column names for an Athena table.
• Query Athena: Execute SQL queries against Amazon Athena via Grafana with macro substitution, limit enforcement, and template variable support.

Snowflake Querying

Note: Snowflake tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add snowflake to your --enabled-tools flag.

Queries go through Grafana's Snowflake datasource (Grafana Enterprise plugin grafana-snowflake-datasource), so authentication is handled by the datasource configuration in Grafana — credentials are never seen by the MCP server. This is the same model used for the ClickHouse tools.

• List Snowflake tables: Discover tables (with database, schema, kind, row count, and size) via INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES. Optional database/schema filters.
• Describe table schema: Get column names, data types, nullability, defaults, and comments for a Snowflake table.
• Query Snowflake: Execute SQL queries with macro and variable substitution support. Useful for querying Snowflake's event tables (e.g. SNOWFLAKE.TELEMETRY.EVENTS) for logs and traces, or any user table.
  • Supported macros: $__timeFilter(column), $__timeFrom, $__timeTo, $__from, $__to (Unix ms), $__interval (seconds), $__interval_ms, and ${varname} for template variable substitution.

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch Querying

Note: Elasticsearch/OpenSearch tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add elasticsearch to your --enabled-tools flag.

• Query Elasticsearch/OpenSearch: Execute search queries against Elasticsearch or OpenSearch datasources using either Lucene query syntax or Elasticsearch Query DSL. Supports filtering by time range and retrieving logs, metrics, or any indexed data. Returns documents with their index, ID, source fields, and optional relevance score.

Quickwit Querying

Note: Quickwit tools are disabled by default. To enable them, add quickwit to your --enabled-tools flag.

• Query Quickwit: Execute search queries against Quickwit datasources using Lucene query syntax or partial Elasticsearch-compatible Query DSL. Supports filtering by time range and retrieving logs or other indexed documents. Returns documents with their index, ID, source fields, and optional relevance score.

Agent Observability

Note: Agent Observability tools are disabled by default and work only in Grafana Cloud. To enable them, add agento11y to your --enabled-tools flag.

• List and search conversations: List recent LLM conversations or search them with a filter expression (model, provider, agent, status, error type, eval results, and more) over a time range. Search results include error counts, rating summaries, evaluation summaries, and trace IDs.
• Get conversation detail: Fetch a single conversation with all its generations, including prompts and outputs.
• Get generation detail and scores: Fetch a single generation by ID, and its evaluation scores (evaluator, score key, value, passed, explanation).
• Read the agent catalog: List the agents that send telemetry, fetch one agent version in full (complete system prompt, every tool with its JSON schema, and the models it ran on), walk an agent's version history, and compare evaluation score aggregates per version. Effective versions are sha256: hashes that a tool change never affects; for an agent that reports no version of its own they hash the system prompt, so a prompt edit mints a new version. Catalog and version rows carry a token_estimate, which is worth checking before fetching a full prompt.
• Inspect evaluators and templates: Read the evaluators a score came from, the templates they were derived from, and the judge providers and models available to LLM-judge evaluators. With write tools enabled, also create, fork, test, and delete evaluators.
• Inspect eval rules and guards: Read the asynchronous eval rules that bind evaluators to production traffic, and the guards (hook rules) that run inline and can warn or deny. With write tools enabled, also create, update, preview, and delete them. Writes and the non-persisting preview_rule and test_evaluator operations need the grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write permission, granted by the Agento11y Admin role.
• Curate saved conversations and collections: Read the saved conversations (bookmarks that give a conversation a stable ID, name, and tags) and the collections that group them, including each collection's member count and the collections embedded in every saved-conversation row. With write tools enabled, also bookmark a conversation, create and edit collections, and add or remove members. These writes need the same grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write permission.
• Read and edit test suites: List the versioned test suites that offline experiments run against, read one with its full version history, and page through the test cases of a version. With write tools enabled, also create a suite, rename or retag it, open a draft version, publish it, and write or delete its test cases. A published version is frozen, so an edit means opening a new draft. These writes need grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write.
• Read offline experiments: List the evaluation runs over a test suite and read one with its headline pass rate, cost, and token totals. Drill down through a per-test-case report to trials, their scores with each judge's explanation, and their artifact metadata. With write tools enabled, also rename or retag an experiment and cancel a running one, which need grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write. Experiments are created by SDK runners, not by this tool.

Grafana Assistant

Note: Assistant tools are disabled by default and require the Grafana Assistant plugin (grafana-assistant-app) to be installed on the target Grafana instance. They are also write tools (the assistant may mutate stack state), so they are skipped when --disable-write is set. To enable them, add assistant to your --enabled-tools flag.

• Ask the assistant: Send a natural-language prompt to Grafana Assistant and wait for the full text reply. The assistant may use tools, metrics, logs, and other stack context—broader than firing one isolated data-source query. Pass the returned contextId back in a follow-up call to continue the same conversation. Complex tasks can take several minutes; the call blocks until the reply is done or the request times out (5 minutes).

Incidents

• Search, create, and update incidents: Manage incidents in Grafana Incident, including searching, creating, adding activities, and reading or setting custom fields.

Sift Investigations

• List Sift investigations: Retrieve a list of Sift investigations, with support for a limit parameter.
• Get Sift investigation: Retrieve details of a specific Sift investigation by its UUID.
• Get Sift analyses: Retrieve a specific analysis from a Sift investigation.
• Find error patterns in logs: Detect elevated error patterns in Loki logs using Sift.
• Find slow requests: Detect slow requests using Sift (Tempo).

Alerting

• List and fetch alert rule information: View alert rules and their statuses (firing/normal/error/etc.) in Grafana. Supports both Grafana-managed rules and datasource-managed rules from Prometheus or Loki datasources.
• Create and update alert rules: Create new alert rules or modify existing ones.
• Delete alert rules: Remove alert rules by UID.
• Manage alerting routing: View notification policies, contact points, and time intervals. Supports both Grafana-managed contact points and receivers from external Alertmanager datasources (Prometheus Alertmanager, Mimir, Cortex).

Grafana OnCall

• List and manage schedules: View and manage on-call schedules in Grafana OnCall.
• Get shift details: Retrieve detailed information about specific on-call shifts.
• Get current on-call users: See which users are currently on call for a schedule.
• List teams and users: View all OnCall teams and users.
• List alert groups: View and filter alert groups from Grafana OnCall by various criteria including state, integration, labels, and time range.
• Get alert group details: Retrieve detailed information about a specific alert group by its ID.

Admin

Note: Admin tools are disabled by default. To enable them, include admin in your --enabled-tools flag.

• List teams: View all configured teams in Grafana.
• List Users: View all users in an organization in Grafana.
• List all roles: List all Grafana roles, with an optional filter for delegatable roles.
• Get role details: Get details for a specific Grafana role by UID.
• List assignments for a role: List all users, teams, and service accounts assigned to a role.
• List roles for users: List all roles assigned to one or more users.
• List roles for teams: List all roles assigned to one or more teams.
• List permissions for a resource: List all permissions defined for a specific resource (dashboard, datasource, folder, etc.).
• Describe a Grafana resource: List available permissions and assignment capabilities for a resource type.

User

• User info: Get the current Grafana identity — login, email, name, whether it is a Grafana (server) admin, the current organization, and the organizations the credential can access (with roles). Use it to discover valid orgId values for multi-organization requests.

Navigation

• Generate deeplinks: Create accurate deeplink URLs for Grafana resources instead of relying on LLM URL guessing.
  • Dashboard links: Generate direct links to dashboards using their UID (e.g., http://localhost:3000/d/dashboard-uid)
  • Panel links: Create links to specific panels within dashboards with viewPanel parameter (e.g., http://localhost:3000/d/dashboard-uid?viewPanel=5)
  • Explore links: Generate links to Grafana Explore with pre-configured datasources (e.g., http://localhost:3000/explore?left={"datasource":"prometheus-uid"})
  • Time range support: Add time range parameters to links (from=now-1h&to=now)
  • Custom parameters: Include additional query parameters like dashboard variables or refresh intervals

Annotations

• Get Annotations: Query annotations with filters. Supports time range, dashboard UID, tags, and match mode.
• Create Annotation: Create a new annotation on a dashboard or panel.
• Create Graphite Annotation: Create annotations using Graphite format (what, when, tags, data).
• Update Annotation: Replace all fields of an existing annotation (full update).
• Patch Annotation: Update only specific fields of an annotation (partial update).
• Get Annotation Tags: List available annotation tags with optional filtering.

Snapshots

• List snapshots: List dashboard snapshots with optional query and limit filters.
• Get snapshot: Retrieve snapshot metadata and dashboard payload by snapshot key.
• Create snapshot: Create a dashboard snapshot from a full dashboard payload, with optional expiration and external snapshot options.
• Delete snapshot: Delete a snapshot by snapshot key.

Rendering

• Get panel or dashboard image: Render a Grafana dashboard panel or full dashboard as a PNG image. Returns the image as base64 encoded data for use in reports, alerts, or presentations. Supports customizing dimensions, time range, theme, scale, and dashboard variables. Also supports rendering not-yet-applied dashboards from a provisioning repository branch (e.g. a git-sync PR preview) via the optional provisioningPreview parameter.
  • Note: Requires the Grafana Image Renderer service to be installed and configured.

Provisioning

• List provisioning repositories: List provisioning repositories configured for this Grafana instance (e.g. git-sync sources), returning each repository's slug along with its source URL, branch, path, sync state, and health.
• Validate provisioning file: Dry-run-apply a file from a provisioning repository at a given branch or commit. Returns whether it would be accepted, the resource action (create/update), the target resource type, and any structured validation errors — the same admission surface Grafana's PR commenter uses.

The list of tools is configurable, so you can choose which tools you want to make available to the MCP client. This is useful if you don't use certain functionality or if you don't want to take up too much of the context window. To disable a category of tools, use the --disable-<category> flag when starting the server. For example, to disable the OnCall tools, use --disable-oncall, or to disable navigation deeplink generation, use --disable-navigation.

RBAC Permissions

Each tool requires specific RBAC permissions to function properly. When creating a service account for the MCP server, ensure it has the necessary permissions based on which tools you plan to use. The permissions listed are the minimum required actions - you may also need appropriate scopes (e.g., datasources:*, dashboards:*, folders:*) depending on your use case.

Tip: If you're not familiar with Grafana RBAC or you want a quicker, simpler setup instead of configuring many granular scopes, you can assign a built-in role such as Editor to the service account. The Editor role grants broad read/write access that will allow most MCP server operations; it is less granular (and therefore less restrictive) than manually-applied scopes, so use it only when convenience is more important than strict least-privilege access.

Note: Grafana Incident and Sift tools use basic Grafana roles instead of fine-grained RBAC permissions:

• Viewer role: Required for read-only operations (list incidents, get investigations)
• Editor role: Required for write operations (create incidents, modify investigations)

For more information about Grafana RBAC, see the official documentation.

RBAC Scopes

Scopes define the specific resources that permissions apply to. Each action requires both the appropriate permission and scope combination.

Common Scope Patterns:

• Broad access: Use * wildcards for organization-wide access

  • datasources:* - Access to all datasources
  • dashboards:* - Access to all dashboards
  • folders:* - Access to all folders
  • teams:* - Access to all teams

• Limited access: Use specific UIDs or IDs to restrict access to individual resources

  • datasources:uid:prometheus-uid - Access only to a specific Prometheus datasource
  • dashboards:uid:abc123 - Access only to dashboard with UID abc123
  • folders:uid:xyz789 - Access only to folder with UID xyz789
  • teams:id:5 - Access only to team with ID 5
  • global.users:id:123 - Access only to user with ID 123

Examples:

• Full MCP server access: Grant broad permissions for all tools

  datasources:* (datasources:read, datasources:query)
  dashboards:* (dashboards:read, dashboards:create, dashboards:write)
  folders:* (for dashboard creation and alert rules)
  teams:* (teams:read)
  global.users:* (users:read)
  

• Limited datasource access: Only query specific Prometheus and Loki instances

  datasources:uid:prometheus-prod (datasources:query)
  datasources:uid:loki-prod (datasources:query)
  

• Dashboard-specific access: Read only specific dashboards

  dashboards:uid:monitoring-dashboard (dashboards:read)
  dashboards:uid:alerts-dashboard (dashboards:read)
  

Tools

Tool	Category	Description	Required RBAC Permissions	Required Scopes
list_teams	Admin	List all teams	teams:read	teams:* or teams:id:1
list_users_by_org	Admin	List all users in an organization	users:read	global.users:* or global.users:id:123
list_all_roles	Admin	List all Grafana roles	roles:read	roles:*
get_role_details	Admin	Get details for a Grafana role	roles:read	roles:uid:editor
get_role_assignments	Admin	List assignments for a role	roles:read	roles:uid:editor
list_user_roles	Admin	List roles for users	roles:read	global.users:id:123
list_team_roles	Admin	List roles for teams	roles:read	teams:id:7
get_resource_permissions	Admin	List permissions for a resource	permissions:read	dashboards:uid:abcd1234
get_resource_description	Admin	Describe a Grafana resource type	permissions:read	dashboards:*
user_info	User	Current identity, capabilities, and accessible organizations	None (signed-in user)	—
search_dashboards	Search	Search for dashboards	dashboards:read	dashboards:* or dashboards:uid:abc123
get_dashboard_by_uid	Dashboard	Get a dashboard by uid	dashboards:read	dashboards:uid:abc123
update_dashboard	Dashboard	Update or create a new dashboard	dashboards:create, dashboards:write	dashboards:*, folders:* or folders:uid:xyz789
get_dashboard_panel_queries	Dashboard	Get panel title, queries, datasource UID and type from a dashboard	dashboards:read	dashboards:uid:abc123
run_panel_query	RunPanelQuery*	Execute one or more dashboard panel queries	dashboards:read, datasources:query	dashboards:uid:*, datasources:uid:*
get_dashboard_property	Dashboard	Extract specific parts of a dashboard using JSONPath expressions	dashboards:read	dashboards:uid:abc123
get_dashboard_summary	Dashboard	Get a compact summary of a dashboard without full JSON	dashboards:read	dashboards:uid:abc123
list_datasources	Datasources	List datasources	datasources:read	datasources:*
get_datasource	Datasources	Get a datasource by UID or name	datasources:read	datasources:uid:prometheus-uid
get_query_examples	Examples*	Get example queries for a datasource type	datasources:read	datasources:*
query_prometheus	Prometheus	Execute a query against a Prometheus datasource	datasources:query	datasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_metric_metadata	Prometheus	List metric metadata	datasources:query	datasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_metric_names	Prometheus	List available metric names	datasources:query	datasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_label_names	Prometheus	List label names matching a selector	datasources:query	datasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_prometheus_label_values	Prometheus	List values for a specific label	datasources:query	datasources:uid:prometheus-uid
query_prometheus_histogram	Prometheus	Calculate histogram percentile values	datasources:query	datasources:uid:prometheus-uid
list_incidents	Incident	List incidents in Grafana Incident, optionally with their custom field values	Viewer role	N/A
create_incident	Incident	Create an incident in Grafana Incident, optionally setting custom fields	Editor role	N/A
add_activity_to_incident	Incident	Add an activity item to an incident in Grafana Incident	Editor role	N/A
update_incident	Incident	Update an incident in Grafana Incident (status, severity, title, or custom fields)	Editor role	N/A
get_incident	Incident	Get a single incident by ID, including its custom fields	Viewer role	N/A
list_incident_custom_fields	Incident	List the custom fields configured for incidents, with their types and select options	Viewer role	N/A
query_loki_logs	Loki	Query and retrieve logs using LogQL (either log or metric queries)	datasources:query	datasources:uid:loki-uid
list_loki_label_names	Loki	List all available label names in logs	datasources:query	datasources:uid:loki-uid
list_loki_label_values	Loki	List values for a specific log label	datasources:query	datasources:uid:loki-uid
query_loki_stats	Loki	Get statistics about log streams	datasources:query	datasources:uid:loki-uid
query_loki_patterns	Loki	Query detected log patterns to identify common structures	datasources:query	datasources:uid:loki-uid
analyze_loki_labels	Loki	Audit a Loki label strategy (live or static) and optionally diagnose query performance	datasources:query	datasources:uid:loki-uid
suggest_loki_alloy_label_config	Config	Generate an Alloy loki.process snippet enforcing approved labels	N/A	N/A
query_influxdb	InfluxDB	Query InfluxDB using InfluxQL (v1) or Flux (v2)	datasources:query	datasources:uid:influxdb-uid
list_clickhouse_tables	ClickHouse*	List tables in a ClickHouse database	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
describe_clickhouse_table	ClickHouse*	Get table schema with column types	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
query_clickhouse	ClickHouse*	Execute SQL queries with macro substitution	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
list_cloudwatch_namespaces	CloudWatch*	List available AWS CloudWatch namespaces	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
list_cloudwatch_metrics	CloudWatch*	List metrics in a namespace	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
list_cloudwatch_dimensions	CloudWatch*	List dimensions for a metric	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
query_cloudwatch	CloudWatch*	Execute CloudWatch metric queries	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
list_athena_catalogs	Athena*	List available Athena data catalogs	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
list_athena_databases	Athena*	List databases in an Athena catalog	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
list_athena_tables	Athena*	List tables in an Athena database	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
describe_athena_table	Athena*	Get column names for an Athena table	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
query_athena	Athena*	Execute SQL queries with macro substitution	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
query_elasticsearch	Elasticsearch/OpenSearch*	Query Elasticsearch or OpenSearch using Lucene syntax or Query DSL	datasources:query	datasources:uid:datasource-uid
query_quickwit	Quickwit*	Query Quickwit using Lucene syntax or Query DSL	datasources:query	datasources:uid:quickwit-uid
list_snowflake_tables	Snowflake*	List tables in a Snowflake database/schema via INFORMATION_SCHEMA	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
describe_snowflake_table	Snowflake*	Get table schema (column types, nullability, defaults, comments)	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
query_snowflake	Snowflake*	Execute SQL queries with macro/variable substitution	datasources:query	datasources:uid:*
alerting_manage_rules	Alerting	Manage alert rules (list, get, versions, create, update, delete)	alert.rules:read + alert.rules:write for mutations	folders:* or folders:uid:alerts-folder
alerting_manage_routing	Alerting	Manage notification policies, contact points, and time intervals	alert.notifications:read	Global scope
alerting_manage_silences	Alerting	Manage alerting silences (list, get, create, update, expire)	alert.instances:read + alert.instances:write for mutations	Global scope
list_oncall_schedules	OnCall	List schedules from Grafana OnCall	grafana-oncall-app.schedules:read	Plugin-specific scopes
get_oncall_shift	OnCall	Get details for a specific OnCall shift	grafana-oncall-app.schedules:read	Plugin-specific scopes
get_current_oncall_users	OnCall	Get users currently on-call for a specific schedule	grafana-oncall-app.schedules:read	Plugin-specific scopes
list_oncall_teams	OnCall	List teams from Grafana OnCall	grafana-oncall-app.user-settings:read	Plugin-specific scopes
list_oncall_users	OnCall	List users from Grafana OnCall	grafana-oncall-app.user-settings:read	Plugin-specific scopes
list_alert_groups	OnCall	List alert groups from Grafana OnCall with filtering options	grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:read	Plugin-specific scopes
get_alert_group	OnCall	Get a specific alert group from Grafana OnCall by its ID	grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:read	Plugin-specific scopes
update_alert_group	OnCall	Acknowledge, unacknowledge, resolve, or unresolve an alert group	grafana-oncall-app.alert-groups:write (and :read)	Plugin-specific scopes
get_sift_investigation	Sift	Retrieve an existing Sift investigation by its UUID	Viewer role	N/A
get_sift_analysis	Sift	Retrieve a specific analysis from a Sift investigation	Viewer role	N/A
list_sift_investigations	Sift	Retrieve a list of Sift investigations with an optional limit	Viewer role	N/A
find_error_pattern_logs	Sift	Finds elevated error patterns in Loki logs.	Editor role	N/A
find_slow_requests	Sift	Finds slow requests from the relevant tempo datasources.	Editor role	N/A
list_pyroscope_label_names	Pyroscope	List label names matching a selector	datasources:query	datasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
list_pyroscope_label_values	Pyroscope	List label values matching a selector for a label name	datasources:query	datasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
list_pyroscope_profile_types	Pyroscope	List available profile types	datasources:query	datasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
query_pyroscope	Pyroscope	Query profiles, metrics, or both from Pyroscope	datasources:query	datasources:uid:pyroscope-uid
get_assertions	Asserts	Get assertion summary for a given entity	Plugin-specific permissions	Plugin-specific scopes
agento11y_manage_conversations	Agent Observability*	List, search, and fetch LLM conversations from Grafana Agent Observability	grafana-agento11y-app.conversations:read	N/A
agento11y_manage_generations	Agent Observability*	Fetch LLM generation details and evaluation scores from Grafana Agent Observability	grafana-agento11y-app.data:read	N/A
agento11y_manage_agents	Agent Observability*	Read the agent catalog: list agents, get one agent version in full, list version history, and per-version score aggregates	grafana-agento11y-app.data:read	N/A
agento11y_manage_evaluators	Agent Observability*	Manage evaluators, evaluator templates, and the judge catalog (list, get, upsert, fork, test, delete)	grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutations and tests	N/A
agento11y_manage_eval_rules	Agent Observability*	Manage eval rules and guards (list, get, create, update, preview, delete)	grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutations and previews	N/A
agento11y_manage_eval_collections	Agent Observability*	Manage saved conversations and the collections that group them (list, get, save, create, update, delete, add and remove members)	grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutations	N/A
agento11y_manage_experiments	Agent Observability*	Read offline experiments, their trials, scores, artifact metadata, and filter facets; update and cancel an experiment	grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutations	N/A
agento11y_manage_test_suites	Agent Observability*	Manage the test suites that offline experiments run against, their versions, and their test cases (list, get, create, update, draft, publish, upsert, delete)	grafana-agento11y-app.data:read + grafana-agento11y-app.eval:write for mutations	N/A
ask_assistant	Assistant*	Send a prompt to Grafana Assistant and return the full text reply (multi-turn via contextId)	Plugin-specific permissions	Plugin-specific scopes
generate_deeplink	Navigation	Generate accurate deeplink URLs for Grafana resources	None (read-only URL generation)	N/A
get_annotations	Annotations	Fetch annotations with filters	annotations:read	annotations:* or annotations:id:123
create_annotation	Annotations	Create a new annotation (standard or Graphite format)	annotations:write	annotations:*
update_annotation	Annotations	Update specific fields of an annotation (partial update)	annotations:write	annotations:*
get_annotation_tags	Annotations	List annotation tags with optional filtering	annotations:read	annotations:*
list_snapshots	Snapshot	List dashboard snapshots with optional query and limit filters	dashboards:read	dashboards:* or dashboards:uid:abc123
get_snapshot	Snapshot	Get snapshot metadata and dashboard payload by snapshot key	dashboards:read	dashboards:* or dashboards:uid:abc123
create_snapshot	Snapshot	Create a dashboard snapshot from a full dashboard payload	dashboards:write	dashboards:* or dashboards:uid:abc123
delete_snapshot	Snapshot	Delete a dashboard snapshot by snapshot key	dashboards:write	dashboards:* or dashboards:uid:abc123
get_panel_image	Rendering	Render a stored dashboard or panel — or a provisioning preview from a repository branch — as a PNG image	dashboards:read	dashboards:uid:abc123
list_provisioning_repositories	Provisioning	List provisioning repositories (e.g. git-sync sources) with their source URL, branch, sync state, and health	provisioning.repositories:read	N/A
validate_provisioning_file	Provisioning	Dry-run-apply a file from a provisioning repository and report admission validation errors	provisioning.repositories:read	N/A
search_docs	Docs	Search Grafana documentation or list product groups (omit query to list products)	None (public grafana.com/docs)	N/A
get_doc	Docs	Fetch a documentation page; set outline_only for headings, or section for bounded retrieval	None (public grafana.com/docs)	N/A

* Disabled by default. Add category to --enabled-tools to enable.

CLI Flags Reference

The mcp-grafana binary supports various command-line flags for configuration:

Transport Options:

• -t, --transport: Transport type (stdio, sse, or streamable-http) - default: stdio
• --address: The host and port for SSE/streamable-http server - default: localhost:8000
• --base-path: Base path for the SSE/streamable-http server
• --endpoint-path: Endpoint path for the streamable-http server - default: /mcp
• --server-name: Server name used in the MCP handshake and OTel service.name - default: mcp-grafana. Overrides GRAFANA_MCP_SERVER_NAME env var

HTTP Transport Security (SSE / streamable-http only):

Host/Origin validation is enforced on every route on the listener — /sse, /mcp, /healthz, and /metrics — so a DNS-rebinding browser cannot reach any of them. Stdio transport is unaffected.

• --allowed-hosts: Comma-separated allowlist of Host header values. Defaults to loopback variants of --address (e.g. localhost:8000,127.0.0.1:8000,[::1]:8000). A value that parses to empty (unset, ,, ,, etc.) also falls back to the defaults so a typo cannot silently disable the check. Requests with a Host header outside the allowlist are rejected with 403. Pass * to disable the check — only safe when running behind a trusted reverse proxy that rewrites Host, or in an isolated network. K8s httpGet probes and external /metrics scrapes will need either an explicit hostname in this list, *, or a tcpSocket probe / a separate metrics port (--metrics-address).
• --allowed-origins: Comma-separated allowlist of Origin header values. Empty by default — any request that carries an Origin header is rejected (browsers always send one for cross-origin requests, and no browser should be calling this server directly). Set to an explicit list to permit browser-based clients, or * to disable the check.

Caller Authentication (SSE / streamable-http only):

Optionally require MCP clients to authenticate to the server. This is separate from the credentials the server uses to reach Grafana. Stdio is unaffected.

• --server-auth-token: Bearer token callers must send as Authorization: Bearer <token>. Falls back to the MCP_GRAFANA_SERVER_TOKEN environment variable. When set, requests without a valid token are rejected with 401 before any tool runs. Prefer the env var so the secret isn't visible in the process arguments.

Caller authentication is enforced only when --server-auth-token is set. When it isn't and the server binds a non-loopback address, the server starts but logs a security error — emitted at the error log level so it isn't hidden by --log-level (loopback and stdio are unaffected); a future major release will make that a startup error. Use TLS (or TLS termination) whenever caller auth is enabled on a non-loopback address. When caller auth is enabled, the validated Authorization header is stripped before requests reach Grafana; combining --server-auth-token with GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS=Authorization is rejected at startup.

Debug and Logging:

• --debug: Enable debug mode for detailed HTTP request/response logging
• --log-level: Log level (debug, info, warn, error) - default: info

Grafana Client Options:

• --grafana-timeout: Time limit for requests made by the Grafana client. Accepts Go duration strings (e.g., 10s, 500ms) - default: 10s
• --include-args-in-spans: Include tool call arguments in OpenTelemetry spans. Only enable in non-production environments or when arguments are known not to contain PII - default: false

Observability:

• --metrics: Enable Prometheus metrics endpoint at /metrics
• --metrics-address: Separate address for metrics server (e.g., :9090). If empty, metrics are served on the main server
• --slow-request-threshold: Log an event when any MCP request (tool invocation, list, resource read, etc.) takes longer than this duration. Accepts Go duration strings (e.g., 500ms, 5s). Default 0 disables slow-request logging. See the Slow-request logging section.
• --slow-request-log-level: Log level for slow-request events (info or warn) - default: warn.

Session Management:

• --session-idle-timeout-minutes: Session idle timeout in minutes. Sessions with no activity for this duration are automatically reaped - default: 30. Set to 0 to disable session reaping. Only relevant for SSE and streamable-http transports.

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