What it can do: io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana

MCP server · grafana

What io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana declares, asks for and runs, according to the marketplaces we read. Runs on a remote server: your AI tool connects to it over the network. mcp.grafana.com/mcp. Tools it declares: 65. Environment variables it asks for: 7, secrets among them: 2. As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-11.

This is not a security audit. We list what the marketplaces publish about this plugin: what it declares, what it asks for and what it runs. We do not run or inspect its code, and a verified mark is the marketplace's statement, not ours.

Where it runs

Runs on a remote server: your AI tool connects to it over the network. mcp.grafana.com/mcpTransport: Streamable HTTP. As declared on: Official MCP Registry.
Its MCP server runs on your machine: the AI tool starts this OCI package locally: grafana/mcp-grafanaAs declared on: Claude Code: claude-plugins-official.
Runs on your machine, in a container started from this image: mcp/grafanaAs declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

What it declares

Tools it declares: 65. As declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

add_activity_to_incident
alerting_manage_routing
alerting_manage_rules
analyze_loki_labels
check_datasources_health
create_annotation
create_datasource
create_folder
create_incident
create_snapshot
delete_snapshot
find_error_pattern_logs

Show the remaining 53

find_slow_requests
generate_deeplink
get_alert_group
get_annotation_tags
get_annotations
get_assertions
get_current_oncall_users
get_dashboard_by_uid
get_dashboard_panel_queries
get_dashboard_property
get_dashboard_summary
get_datasource
get_incident
get_oncall_shift
get_panel_image
get_plugin
get_sift_analysis
get_sift_investigation
get_snapshot
grafana_api_request
install_plugin
list_alert_groups
list_datasources
list_incidents
list_loki_label_names
list_loki_label_values
list_oncall_schedules
list_oncall_teams
list_oncall_users
list_prometheus_label_names
list_prometheus_label_values
list_prometheus_metric_metadata
list_prometheus_metric_names
list_provisioning_repositories
list_pyroscope_label_names
list_pyroscope_label_values
list_pyroscope_profile_types
list_sift_investigations
list_snapshots
query_loki_logs
query_loki_patterns
query_loki_stats
query_prometheus
query_prometheus_histogram
query_pyroscope
search_dashboards
search_folders
search_plugin_information
suggest_loki_alloy_label_config
update_annotation
update_dashboard
update_datasource
validate_provisioning_file

Prompts and resources: the marketplaces we read do not publish them.

What it asks for

Environment variables it asks for: 7, secrets among them: 2. As declared on: Official MCP Registry.

GRAFANA_EXTRA_HEADERS
GRAFANA_FORWARD_HEADERS
GRAFANA_ORG_ID
GRAFANA_PASSWORD secret
GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN secret
GRAFANA_URL required
GRAFANA_USERNAME

Environment variables it asks for: 2, secrets among them: 1. As declared on: Claude Code: claude-plugins-official.

GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN secret required
GRAFANA_URL required

Environment variables it asks for: 2, secrets among them: 1. As declared on: Docker MCP Catalog.

GRAFANA_API_KEY secret required
GRAFANA_URL

Names only: we keep no values, examples or descriptions of these variables. OAuth scopes and install-time settings are not published by the marketplaces we read.

What it runs besides MCP

Skills: 1 As declared on: Claude Code: claude-plugins-official.

grafana-mcp-tools

Who answers for it

grafana

No marketplace we read marks it or its publisher as verified.
License: Apache-2.0.
The repository github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana belongs to the account the publisher is listed under on Official MCP Registry.

How it has changed

Its tools, settings, hooks and composition have not changed since we started watching it.

In context

Median number of secrets an MCP server asks for on the marketplaces we read: 0.0. This one asks for: 2.
Share of MCP servers that run on a remote server: 63%.

Where it is published and how its figures have moved

Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Docker MCP Catalog (desktop.docker.com/mcp/catalog) and Docker Hub. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-10-11. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.