Grafana Cloud MCP Server Setup

The Grafana MCP server exposes Grafana Cloud capabilities as tools that AI agents can call via the Model Context Protocol. Once connected, agents can query metrics, search dashboards, manage alerts, investigate incidents, and interact with Fleet Management - all without leaving their coding environment.

Available transports:

• stdio - agent spawns the server as a subprocess (simplest, works everywhere)
• SSE - server runs independently, agent connects via HTTP

Step 1: Get your Grafana Cloud credentials

You need a Service Account token with appropriate scopes.

1. Go to your Grafana Cloud instance > Administration > Service Accounts
2. Create a service account with the Viewer role (add Editor if you need write operations)