Grafana MCP connector
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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, and search across dashboards and folders. It also supports team administration, including creating teams, updating team details, and searching for teams within a Grafana instance.
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 deployment events and incidents directly on Grafana dashboards
- Build and update dashboards to visualize metrics, logs, and traces
- Organize teams to manage dashboard access and collaboration
- Onboard and offboard organization users across Grafana instances
- Search dashboards and folders to quickly locate monitoring resources
- Assign team members to align monitoring responsibilities with roles
- Audit organization users and their permission levels at any time
- Remove outdated dashboards to keep monitoring workspaces clean
Example prompts
Use the following example prompts to invoke Grafana MCP connector tools from your AI assistant or Boomi Connect workflow:
Add a note on the Grafana dashboard marking today's deployment.Show me all dashboards related to server performance in Grafana.Create a new team for the infrastructure group in Grafana.Who are the members of the on-call team in Grafana.Add a new engineer to our Grafana organization.Find all folders containing sales metrics dashboards in Grafana.Update the marketing dashboard with the latest campaign metrics in Grafana.Remove a former employee from our Grafana organization.List all the teams currently set up in Grafana.Delete the outdated Q1 dashboard from Grafana.
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 an annotation in Grafana to mark events on dashboards |
| createDashboard | Create or update dashboard |
| getDashboard | Get dashboard by UID |
| deleteDashboard | Delete dashboard by UID |
| searchDashboards | Search dashboards and folders |
| getFolders | Get all folders |
| createTeam | Create a team |
| searchTeams | Search teams |
| getTeam | Get team by ID |
| updateTeam | Update team |
| deleteTeam | Delete team |
| getTeamMembers | Get team members |
| addTeamMember | Add team member |
| removeTeamMember | Remove team member |
| getOrgUsers | Get organization users |
| addOrgUser | Add user to organization |
| updateOrgUser | Update organization user |
| removeOrgUser | Remove user from organization |
