Grafana

$ docker run -d --name pa-grafana-probe -p 13000:3000 grafana/grafana-oss && curl localhost:13000/api/health && curl -X POST http://admin:admin@localhost:13000/api/dashboards/db -d '{"dashboard":{"title":"PA Probe"},"overwrite":true}' && curl 'http://admin:admin@localhost:13000/api/search?query=PA%20Probe'
{
  "database": "ok",
  "version": "13.0.2",
  "commit": "3fcdbc5a"
}
{"folderUid":"","id":1869679639199744,"slug":"pa-probe","status":"success","uid":"8059113c-7db4-4e26-bba3-0389c84f569e","url":"/d/8059113c-7db4-4e26-bba3-0389c84f569e/pa-probe","version":1}
[{"id":1869679639199744,"uid":"8059113c-7db4-4e26-bba3-0389c84f569e","orgId":1,"title":"PA Probe","uri":"db/pa-probe","url":"/d/8059113c-7db4-4e26-bba3-0389c84f569e/pa-probe","slug":"","type":"dash-db","tags":[],"isStarred":false,"sortMeta":0,"isDeleted":false}]

$ echo '<jsonrpc initialize>' | mcp-grafana
time=2026-09-04T18:11:20.973-07:00 level=INFO msg="Using Grafana configuration" url=http://localhost:3000 api_[redacted]_set=false basic_auth_set=false org_id=0 extra_headers_count=0
time=2026-09-04T18:11:20.974-07:00 level=WARN msg="Failed to fetch frontend settings" error="Get \"http://localhost:3000/api/frontend/settings\": dial tcp [::1]:3000: connect: connection refused"
time=2026-09-04T18:11:20.975-07:00 level=ERROR msg="failed to initialize proxied tools for stdio" error="failed to discover MCP datasources: failed to list datasources: Get \"http://localhost:3000/api/datasources\": dial tcp [::1]:3000: connect: connection refused"
time=2026-09-04T18:11:20.975-07:00 level=INFO msg="Starting Grafana MCP server using stdio transport" version=(devel)
time=2026-09-04T18:11:20.975-07:00 level=INFO msg="Using Grafana configuration" url=http://localhost:3000 api_[redacted]_set=false basic_auth_set=false org_id=0 extra_headers_count=0
time=2026-09-04T18:11:20.975-07:00 level=WARN msg="Failed to fetch frontend settings" error="Get \"http://localhost:3000/api/frontend/settings\": dial tcp [::1]:3000: connect: connection refused"
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":"2025-06-18","capabilities":{"resources":{},"tools":{"listChanged":true}},"serverInfo":{"name":"mcp-grafana","version":"(devel)"},"instructions":"This server provides access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem.\n\nAvailable Capabilities:\n- Search: Find dashboards, folders, and other Grafana resources.\n- Datasources: List and fetch details for datasources.\n- Incidents: Search, create, update, and resolve incidents in Grafana Incident.\n- Prometheus: Run PromQL queries, retrieve metric metadata, and explore label names/values.\n- Loki: Run LogQL queries, retrieve log metadata, and explore label names/values.\n- Alerting: List and fetch alert rules and notification contact points.\n- Dashboards: Search, retrieve, update, and create dashboards. Extract panel queries and datasource information.\n- Folders: Manage dashboard folders.\n- OnCall: View and manage on-call schedules, shifts, teams, and users.\n- Asserts: Query and analyze assertion data.\n- Sift Investigations: Start and manage Sift investigations, analyze logs/traces, find error patterns, and detect slow requests.\n- Pyroscope: Profile applications and fetch profiling data.\n- Navigation: Generate deeplink URLs for Grafana resources like dashboards, panels, and Explore queries, with optional built-in shortening.\n- Annotations: Create and manage dashboard annotations.\n- Rendering: Export dashboard panels or full dashboards as PNG images (requires Grafana Image Renderer plugin).\n- Snapshots: List, get, create, and delete dashboard snapshots.\n- Plugins: Check whether Grafana plugins are installed and fetch plugin details.\n- API: Make authenticated HTTP requests to any Grafana API endpoint with optional jq-style response filtering.\n- Config: Generate operator-facing configuration snippets (e.g. Alloy label-enforcement pipelines).\n- Provisioning: List provisioning repositories (e.g. git-sync sources) to discover repository slugs for use with rendering tools.\n- Docs: Search and retrieve Grafana product documentation (powered by grafana.com/llms-full.txt).\n- User: Identify the current user/credential, its capabilities, and the organizations it can access.\n- Proxied Tools: Access tools from external MCP servers (like Tempo) through dynamic discovery.\n\nTimestamp parameters without a timezone offset are interpreted as UTC. Include an offset like '-05:00' or use relative syntax like 'now-1h' to query in a different timezone.\n"}}