grafana-mcp-server

create token from grafana UI

Administrator –> Users and access –> Service accounts –> Add service account –> Add service account token

verify your token

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer glsa_xxx" https://grafana.domainname.com/api/dashboards/home

build mcp server

• grafana mcp server: https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana
  

  GO=$(which go)
  GOBIN=${GO%/*} go install github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana/cmd/mcp-grafana@latest
  

• sample for stdio
  

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "grafana": {
        "command": "/home/ec2-user/.local/opt/go/bin/mcp-grafana",
        "args": [],
        "env": {
          "GRAFANA_URL": "https://grafana.domainname.com",
          "GRAFANA_API_KEY": "<your service account token>"
        }
      }
    }
  }
  

• sample for sse
  

  nohup mcp-proxy --sse-host=0.0.0.0 --sse-port=${PORT} \
      --env GRAFANA_URL https://grafana.domainname.com \
      --env GRAFANA_API_KEY glsa_xxx \
      /home/ec2-user/.local/opt/go/bin/mcp-grafana 2>&1 1>/tmp/mcp-proxy-${PORT}.log &
  

• connect to sse in Cline
  

      "grafana-mcp-server-remote": {
        "autoApprove": [
          "search_dashboards",
          "get_dashboard_by_uid",
          "query_prometheus",
          "list_datasources",
          "list_alert_rules"
        ],
        "disabled": false,
        "timeout": 60,
        "url": "http://sse-server:port/sse",
        "transportType": "sse"
      }