# Grafana MCP Server

> Lets AI assistants query and manage a Grafana instance

- Page on StartupList: https://startuplist.tech/launches/grafana-mcp-server
- Website: https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana
- Category: MCP Servers
- Price: Open source
- Company: Grafana MCP Server (https://startuplist.tech/companies/grafana-mcp-server)
- Used for: Analyse data, Automate workflows

## At a glance

- Who it's for: Businesses (B2B)

## About

mcp-grafana is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Grafana. It gives MCP clients such as Claude Desktop and Cursor access to a Grafana instance and the tools around it. The tools include searching dashboards, reading and patching them, getting panel queries and datasource information, and querying datasources such as Prometheus, Loki, InfluxDB, CloudWatch and several SQL databases.

It is for people who run Grafana and want an AI assistant to work with their dashboards, metrics and logs. Setup is a short entry in the MCP client configuration that points to a Grafana URL and a service account token. The page also mentions Docker, binary and Helm installs, and says Grafana 9.0 or later is required for full functionality.

Several tools are disabled by default and must be turned on with the enabled-tools flag, including panel query runs, query examples, InfluxDB and the SQL tools. The dashboard tools include options that load only summaries or selected parts of a dashboard, which reduces how much context an assistant uses.

The project is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, and its source code is on GitHub. The page does not state a price for the server itself, so no paid plan is listed here.

## Links

- [Grafana MCP Server on StartupList](https://startuplist.tech/launches/grafana-mcp-server)
- [Website](https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana)