MCP Server

io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana MCP Server

Name: io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana MCP Server
Author: io.github.grafana

io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana

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What is the io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana MCP server?

An MCP server giving access to Grafana dashboards, data and more.

How to install io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

GRAFANA_URL
required
URL to your Grafana instance
GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN
secret
Service account token used to authenticate with your Grafana instance
GRAFANA_USERNAME
Username to authenticate with your Grafana instance
GRAFANA_PASSWORD
secret
Password to authenticate with your Grafana instance
GRAFANA_ORG_ID
Organization ID for multi-org support. Can also be set via X-Grafana-Org-Id header in SSE/streamable HTTP transports.
GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS
JSON object of additional HTTP headers to send with all Grafana API requests
GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS
Comma-separated list of HTTP header names to forward from the incoming request to Grafana (SSE/streamable-http only). Example: Cookie,X-Session-Id
X-Grafana-URL
URL of your Grafana Cloud instance

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:0.17.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_URL>",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN>",
        "GRAFANA_USERNAME": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_USERNAME>",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_PASSWORD>",
        "GRAFANA_ORG_ID": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_ORG_ID>",
        "GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS>",
        "GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS>",
        "X-Grafana-URL": "<YOUR_X_GRAFANA_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:0.17.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_URL>",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN>",
        "GRAFANA_USERNAME": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_USERNAME>",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_PASSWORD>",
        "GRAFANA_ORG_ID": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_ORG_ID>",
        "GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS>",
        "GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS>",
        "X-Grafana-URL": "<YOUR_X_GRAFANA_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:0.17.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_URL>",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN>",
        "GRAFANA_USERNAME": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_USERNAME>",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_PASSWORD>",
        "GRAFANA_ORG_ID": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_ORG_ID>",
        "GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS>",
        "GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS>",
        "X-Grafana-URL": "<YOUR_X_GRAFANA_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-grafana": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:0.17.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_URL>",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN>",
        "GRAFANA_USERNAME": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_USERNAME>",
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_PASSWORD>",
        "GRAFANA_ORG_ID": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_ORG_ID>",
        "GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS>",
        "GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS": "<YOUR_GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS>",
        "X-Grafana-URL": "<YOUR_X_GRAFANA_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add mcp-grafana --env GRAFANA_URL=<YOUR_GRAFANA_URL> --env GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN=<YOUR_GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN> --env GRAFANA_USERNAME=<YOUR_GRAFANA_USERNAME> --env GRAFANA_PASSWORD=<YOUR_GRAFANA_PASSWORD> --env GRAFANA_ORG_ID=<YOUR_GRAFANA_ORG_ID> --env GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS=<YOUR_GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS> --env GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS=<YOUR_GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS> --env X-Grafana-URL=<YOUR_X_GRAFANA_URL> -- docker run -i --rm docker.io/grafana/mcp-grafana:0.17.0