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Q: Is Grafana a remote or a local server?

Remote. Grafana Labs hosts it at https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp, and it speaks Streamable HTTP. There's nothing to install.

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Search dashboards, run Prometheus and Loki queries, and work with alerts and incidents in Grafana Cloud or self-hosted Grafana.

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Connects an assistant to a Grafana instance and the data sources behind it. It can search and read dashboards, create or patch them, list data sources, and run PromQL and LogQL queries against Prometheus and Loki. Optional tool groups cover SQL data sources, CloudWatch, InfluxDB and Google Cloud Logging.

A hosted endpoint at mcp.grafana.com uses OAuth sign-in, with the X-Grafana-URL header pointing at your Grafana Cloud instance. For self-hosted Grafana 9.0 or later, run the open source mcp-grafana package with uvx or Docker and set GRAFANA_URL and GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN.

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Search dashboards by title, folder, tag or starred status
Read dashboard summaries or specific properties with JSONPath
Create, update or patch dashboards
List configured data sources and their details
Run PromQL queries and read Prometheus metadata
Run LogQL log and metric queries against Loki
Query SQL, CloudWatch and InfluxDB sources when enabled

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Find the dashboards tagged kubernetes in Grafana
Run a PromQL query for the p95 request latency over the last hour
Show error logs from Loki for the checkout service in the last 30 minutes
Summarize the panels and variables on my API overview dashboard

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Claude Code

Run this in a terminal, in your project folder:

claude mcp add --transport http grafana https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp

Start Claude Code, type /mcp, pick grafana and choose Authenticate. A browser window opens for the Grafana Labs sign-in.

Add --scope user to make it available in every project, not just this one.

Claude Desktop

Open Settings → Connectors and click Add custom connector.
Name it Grafana and paste this URL:

https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp

Click Add, then Connect, and sign in when Grafana Labs asks.

Claude Desktop's JSON config file only starts local servers. Remote servers go through Connectors, and connectors you add on claude.ai show up here too.

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Open the connector form on claude.ai. This button fills in the name and URL for you:

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Check that the URL reads https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp and click Add.
Click Connect and sign in when Grafana Labs asks.

Free plans allow one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings → Connectors.

ChatGPT

On chatgpt.com, open Settings → Security and login and turn on Developer mode.
Go to chatgpt.com/plugins and click + to create an app for a remote MCP server.
Paste https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp as the server URL and choose OAuth. ChatGPT sends you to Grafana Labs to sign in.

Developer mode is available on the web for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Education accounts.

Cursor

Add to Cursor a11y.new_tab

Or add it by hand to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json (this project):

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "url": "https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cursor shows Needs login next to the server. Click it to sign in.

VS Code

Install in VS Code a11y.new_tab

Or from a terminal:

code --add-mcp '{"name":"grafana","type":"http","url":"https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp"}'

Or commit it to the repo in .vscode/mcp.json:

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "grafana": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code asks you to sign in the first time the server starts.

Devin Desktop

Add it to ~/.config/devin/mcp_config.json (macOS and Linux) or %APPDATA%\devin\mcp_config.json (Windows):

mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "serverUrl": "https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Refresh the MCP server list in Cascade and sign in when asked.

Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf. It reads serverUrl (or url) for remote servers.

Codex

codex mcp add grafana --url https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp
codex mcp login grafana

Or edit ~/.codex/config.toml directly:

config.toml

[mcp_servers.grafana]
url = "https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp"

Gemini CLI

gemini mcp add --transport http grafana https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp

Then, inside Gemini CLI, run /mcp auth grafana to sign in.

This adds it to the current project. Add -s user to use it everywhere.

Any client

Most clients accept this shape. Some name the URL field differently: serverUrl in Devin Desktop, httpUrl in Gemini CLI's settings file.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Zed puts servers under context_servers in its settings. Cline needs "type": "streamableHttp", or it assumes SSE.

Client only starts local servers? Bridge it with npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp.

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Can I paste mcp.tc/i/grafana into my MCP client?

No. mcp.tc links are pages, not server addresses. Connect with https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp, so your client talks to Grafana directly. The sign-in token only works there anyway. The quick link is for sharing: it opens this page, with setup steps for every client.

Does Grafana need an API key or a sign-in?

Yes, you need a Grafana Labs account. The first time your client connects, it opens Grafana Labs's sign-in page. The token goes straight to the server's own URL, never through mcp.tc.

Is Grafana a remote or a local server?

Remote. Grafana Labs hosts it at https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp, and it speaks Streamable HTTP. There's nothing to install.

What can Grafana do?

You can search dashboards by title, folder, tag or starred status, read dashboard summaries or specific properties with JSONPath and create, update or patch dashboards.

Which clients can use it?

Any client that supports remote MCP servers: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, claude.ai, ChatGPT in developer mode, Cursor, VS Code, Devin Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Zed and others. The setup steps cover each one.

Who wrote this page?

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