mcp-grafana

# Grafana MCP server

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

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

## Quick Start

Requires [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/). Add the following to your MCP client configuration (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor):

```json
{
  "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](#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](https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana/issues/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.

### Incidents

- **Search, create, and update incidents:** Manage incidents in Grafana Incident, including searching, creating, and adding activities to incidents.

### 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