Grafana Dashboard Authoring

This skill covers creating and iterating on Grafana dashboards using the MCP-driven workflow. For querying Prometheus directly, see the prometheus skill. For monitoring resources (alerts, ServiceMonitors), see the monitoring-authoring skill.

Prerequisites

• mcp-grafana MCP server configured in .mcp.json (already set up)
• Port-forward to Grafana: kubectl port-forward svc/grafana 3000:80 -n monitoring &
• Image Renderer deployed in-cluster (enabled in Grafana Helm values)

Anonymous auth is enabled at Admin role — no service account token needed.

MCP-Driven Workflow

discover metrics → build JSON → push to Grafana → screenshot → iterate → write ConfigMap