Grafana MCP documentation

Quick start

Add a Grafana connection with the settings below, then click Test configuration.
Create an API key for your agent.
Paste the key below, click Test endpoint, and copy the configuration for your platform.

Endpoint	`https://market.oshaani.com/grafana` (your default connection) or `https://market.oshaani.com/grafana/<connection-id>`
Transport	Streamable HTTP (stateless, JSON responses). MCP protocol versions 2024-11-05 to 2025-11-25 and 2026-07-28.
Authentication	`Authorization: Bearer <API key>`, using a key from the API keys page.

Agent configuration

Endpoint The default URL uses your organisation's default Grafana connection; a URL with an ID pins one connection.

API key

Get a key

The key is filled into the snippets below. It stays in this page and is only sent with the test request.

Runs initialize and tools/list against the endpoint, exactly like an agent. No credits are charged.

Any MCP client that supports remote (Streamable HTTP) servers with custom headers.

{
  "name": "grafana",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
  "headers": {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
}

~/.cursor/mcp.json (all projects) or .cursor/mcp.json in a project.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "url": "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config (claude_desktop_config.json). Uses the mcp-remote bridge; needs Node.js.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:${AUTH_HEADER}"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run in your terminal, or put the JSON in .mcp.json at the project root.

claude mcp add --transport http grafana https://market.oshaani.com/grafana \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

# .mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json (GitHub Copilot agent mode). VS Code prompts for the key once and stores it securely.

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "oshaani-mcp-key",
      "description": "oshaani MCP Marketplace API key",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "grafana": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ${input:oshaani-mcp-key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "serverUrl": "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Responses API remote MCP tool (Python SDK).

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()
response = client.responses.create(
    model="gpt-4.1",
    tools=[{
        "type": "mcp",
        "server_label": "grafana",
        "server_url": "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
        "headers": {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
        "require_approval": "never",  # or "always" to approve each tool call
    }],
    input="What can you do with these tools?",
)
print(response.output_text)

Messages API MCP connector (Python SDK).

import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()
response = client.beta.messages.create(
    model="claude-sonnet-4-5",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What can you do with these tools?"}],
    mcp_servers=[{
        "type": "url",
        "url": "https://market.oshaani.com/grafana",
        "name": "grafana",
        "authorization_token": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    }],
    betas=["mcp-client-2025-04-04"],
)
print(response.content)

Official MCP Python SDK 2.x (pip install mcp); works inside any agent framework.

import asyncio

from mcp import ClientSession
from mcp.client.streamable_http import create_mcp_http_client, streamable_http_client


async def main():
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}
    async with create_mcp_http_client(headers=headers) as http:
        async with streamable_http_client("https://market.oshaani.com/grafana", http_client=http) as (read, write, *_):
            async with ClientSession(read, write) as session:
                await session.initialize()
                tools = await session.list_tools()
                print([tool.name for tool in tools.tools])


asyncio.run(main())

Quick check from a terminal: lists the tools without charging credits.

curl -s https://market.oshaani.com/grafana \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -H "MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-06-18" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Connection settings

Entered once per connection on market.oshaani.com. Secrets are encrypted and never shown again or sent to agents.

Setting	Type	Description
Grafana URL `url` required	string (uri)	e.g. https://your-stack.grafana.net min length 1, max length 2083
Service account token `token` required secret	string	Administration > Service accounts; the Viewer role is enough
Organization ID `org_id`	integer	Only needed when the token can see several organizations min 1
Verify TLS certificate `verify_tls`	boolean default true

Tools (6)

`search_dashboards` read-only

Search dashboards by title, tag or folder

Argument	Type	Description
`query`	string	Part of the dashboard title
`tag`	string
`limit`	integer default 50	min 1, max 500

`get_dashboard` read-only

Get a dashboard's panels with their data sources and queries, plus its variables

Argument	Type	Description
`uid` required	string	pattern ^[\w-]{1,64}$

`list_datasources` read-only

List configured data sources and their UIDs

No arguments.

`query_datasource` read-only

Run a query against a data source (PromQL, LogQL, SQL, Lucene...) and return the results as tables

Argument	Type	Description
`datasource_uid` required	string	pattern ^[\w-]{1,64}$
`query` required	string	Query in the data source's language, e.g. sum(rate(http_requests_total[5m])) min length 1
`time_from`	string default "now-1h"	Grafana time, e.g. now-1h, now-7d, now, or epoch milliseconds
`time_to`	string default "now"	Grafana time, e.g. now-1h, now-7d, now, or epoch milliseconds
`max_data_points`	integer default 300	min 1, max 5000
`instant`	boolean default false	Prometheus only: evaluate at a single point in time
`extra`	object	Extra fields for the query target, for data sources not covered by 'query'
`max_rows`	integer default 500	min 1, max 5000

`list_alert_rules` read-only

List Grafana-managed alert rules

No arguments.

`list_firing_alerts` read-only

List alerts that are currently firing

No arguments.

Billing & errors

Each successful tool call costs 1 oshaani.com credit. initialize, tools/list, failed calls and timeouts are free.

JSON-RPC code	Meaning
`-32054` (HTTP 401)	Missing, unknown or revoked API key
`-32053` (HTTP 404)	No Grafana connection configured for your organisation, or the connection ID is wrong
`-32055` (HTTP 403)	Connection disabled or origin not allowed
`-32052` (HTTP 429)	Rate limit reached; retry after a minute
`-32050`	Not enough oshaani.com credits for the call
`-32051`	Billing temporarily unavailable; the call was not run

Errors from Grafana itself (bad IDs, permissions) come back as tool results with isError: true so the agent can read and correct them. See the Grafana API documentation.

Grafana MCP Observability

Quick start

Agent configuration

Connection settings

Tools (6)

search_dashboards read-only

get_dashboard read-only

list_datasources read-only

query_datasource read-only

list_alert_rules read-only

list_firing_alerts read-only

Billing & errors

`search_dashboards` read-only

`get_dashboard` read-only

`list_datasources` read-only

`query_datasource` read-only

`list_alert_rules` read-only

`list_firing_alerts` read-only