# grafana/mcp-grafana

MCP server for Grafana

Repository: https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mcp-grafana
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:07:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 44
- inputs: {"age_days": 617, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 7, "n_releases_24m": 60}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3395, forks 430 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:59.170842+00:00)

## What it is
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Grafana that exposes Grafana instances and their ecosystem to AI assistants like Claude Desktop and Cursor. It lets LLM clients search, read, and modify dashboards and interact with datasources via the MCP standard.

## Use cases
- connect claude desktop to my grafana instance
- let an ai assistant query grafana dashboards
- create or patch grafana dashboards with an llm
- mcp server for grafana
- ask ai about my monitoring data in grafana
- search grafana dashboards from cursor

## When to choose
- you use Grafana 9.0+ and want AI assistants to access dashboards and datasources
- you want an official, actively maintained MCP integration for Grafana
- you need flexible deployment via uvx, Docker, binary, or Helm

## When to avoid
- you run Grafana older than 9.0 where datasource operations may fail
- you don't use any MCP-compatible AI clients
- you need fully read-only access without granting service account tokens

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: mcp, monitoring, api-framework, developer-tools
- domain: monitoring, developer-tools, large-language-models
- platform: go, self-hosted, cross-platform, cli
- tags: grafana, model-context-protocol, mcp-server, dashboards, observability, ai-integration, ai-agents, docker

## Member repositories
- grafana/mcp-grafana (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:59.170842+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:38:57.853290+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:59.170842+00:00, sha 14bc97b7a2ac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.