Grafana MCP connector
Grafana is an open-source analytics and monitoring platform for visualizing metrics, logs, and traces from multiple data sources. The Grafana MCP connector allows AI agents to create and manage dashboards, add annotations to time-series data, and organize content with folders. It also supports searching across dashboards, managing teams and their permissions, and retrieving specific dashboard configurations by unique identifier.
Authentication type
- API Key - Requires a static API key to be configured before the agent can connect to the service.
Uses
Use the Grafana MCP connector to perform the following actions:
- Mark critical incidents on dashboards with timestamped annotations for team visibility
- Create and manage monitoring dashboards to track system performance across environments
- Organize teams with role-based access to dashboards and alerts in Grafana
- Add and remove team members to control who monitors specific infrastructure and applications
- Provision new users across your Grafana organization to expand monitoring capabilities
- Search and retrieve dashboards and folders to audit monitoring setup and governance
- Update team permissions and user roles to enforce security and compliance policies
Example prompts
Use the following example prompts to invoke Grafana MCP connector tools from your AI assistant or Boomi Connect workflow:
Create a new dashboard in Grafana to track our API response times.Add our DevOps team members to the production monitoring dashboard in Grafana.Find all dashboards in Grafana related to database performance.Mark a service outage event on our infrastructure dashboard in Grafana.Remove a contractor from the Grafana organization after their project ends.Update the engineering team permissions in Grafana to access the new microservices dashboard.Show me all folders and dashboards we have set up in Grafana.Create a new team in Grafana for our incident response group.Add a new engineer to our Grafana organization and assign them to the observability team.Delete an old dashboard from Grafana that we no longer use for monitoring.
Grafana MCP connector tools
The Grafana MCP connector provides the following tools. Each tool maps to a specific action you can invoke from your AI agent or automation.
| Tool | Description |
|---|---|
| grafana_grafanacreateannotation_invoke | Creates a marker or note at a specific time point on a graph or dashboard. |
| createDashboard | Creates a new dashboard or updates an existing one with visualizations and panels. |
| getDashboard | Retrieves a specific dashboard along with its configuration and contents. |
| deleteDashboard | Removes a dashboard from the system permanently. |
| searchDashboards | Finds dashboards and folders based on search criteria or keywords. |
| getFolders | Lists all folders available in the organization. |
| createTeam | Establishes a new team for grouping users and managing permissions. |
| searchTeams | Locates teams based on specified search terms or filters. |
| getTeam | Retrieves details about a specific team by its identifier. |
| updateTeam | Modifies team information such as name or description. |
| deleteTeam | Removes a team from the organization. |
| getTeamMembers | Lists all members belonging to a specific team. |
| addTeamMember | Assigns a user to a team membership. |
| removeTeamMember | Removes a user from a team. |
| getOrgUsers | Lists all users in the organization. |
| addOrgUser | Adds a user to the organization. |
| updateOrgUser | Modifies a user's role or organizational settings. |
| removeOrgUser | Removes a user from the organization. |
