{"data":{"slug":"mcp-grafana","name":"Grafana MCP server","tagline":"Apache-2.0 MCP server from Grafana Labs for dashboards, datasources, alerts and incidents","category":"agents","categoryName":"AI Agents","url":"https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana","github":"https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana","pricing":"open-source","hook":"mcp-grafana lets an MCP client search dashboards, query Prometheus and Loki, read alert rules and work incidents in your Grafana — so the agent investigating an outage can look at the same panels you would.","whatsGood":"Apache-2.0, maintained by Grafana Labs, release v2.0.2. `uvx mcp-grafana` with `GRAFANA_URL` (plus a service account token) gets you running; a Docker image, a standalone binary and a Helm chart cover the other setups. Works against self-hosted Grafana or Grafana Cloud. ★~3.5k.","theCatch":"Needs Grafana 9.0 or newer. Several tool groups — panel queries, SQL datasources, InfluxDB, CloudWatch and more — stay off until you turn them on with `--enabled-tools`, so check the list before assuming the agent can see a datasource. Updating a dashboard means sending its full JSON, which eats a lot of agent context on big dashboards. Vs grafana (the dashboards themselves) and opensre (an agent that runs incident investigations end to end): this is the plain bridge that gives any agent read and write access to Grafana.","verdict":"The official way to put Grafana in an agent’s hands — enable only the tool groups you need and keep dashboard edits small.","addedAt":"2026-10-10","featured":false,"domain":"Observability","subSpecialty":"MCP","subcategory":"MCP","tags":["mcp","self-host","permissive","observability","active"],"capabilities":["mcp","dashboards","alerts"],"surfaces":["MCP","Self-host"],"ecosystem":["Go"],"licenseModel":"Apache-2.0","githubStars":3571,"starsPerWeek":38,"access":"free","archived":false,"repo":{"createdAt":"2024-12-24","pushedAt":"2026-10-19","license":"Apache-2.0","archived":false,"checkedAt":"2026-10-19"}},"related":[{"slug":"claude-code","name":"Claude Code","tagline":"Terminal-first coding agent with deep repository context"},{"slug":"cursor","name":"Cursor","tagline":"The AI-first code editor that understands your codebase"},{"slug":"devin","name":"Devin","tagline":"Autonomous AI engineer for defined engineering tasks"},{"slug":"stagehand","name":"Stagehand","tagline":"AI-native browser automation that mixes code and natural language"},{"slug":"browser-use","name":"Browser Use","tagline":"Open-source framework for LLM-driven browser agents"}],"links":{"self":"/api/gems/mcp-grafana","html":"/gems/mcp-grafana","markdown":"/gems/mcp-grafana.md","category":"/api/gems?category=agents","categoryPage":"/stacks/agents"}}