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It runs locally or self-hosted and gives agents dashboards, datasource queries (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope and others), alerting, incidents and OnCall on a self-managed Grafana or Grafana Cloud.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/grafana-mcp-server.json", "repo": "https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "stdio", "sse", "streamable-http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "mcp-grafana" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "grafana/mcp-grafana" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana/v2" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The server signs in to Grafana with a service account token (`GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN`, or a file path in `GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN_FILE` that is re-read on each request), or with `GRAFANA_USERNAME` and `GRAFANA_PASSWORD`. An admin creates the token in Grafana, self-serve, and Grafana RBAC sets what it can do. The README lists the permissions each tool needs. Over streamable HTTP a caller can send its own token in `X-Grafana-Service-Account-Token`, and `--server-auth-token` makes callers present a bearer token to the server itself. stdio needs no caller credential.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and open source under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy for the server. It needs a Grafana instance, which can be self-managed open-source Grafana or Grafana Cloud. Grafana Cloud prices were not checked. The separate hosted Grafana Cloud MCP server counts towards Grafana Assistant usage (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs or the changelog (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 119, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3535, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 151923, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developer-resources/mcp/", "llmsTxt": "https://grafana.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana", "capabilities": [ "observability.metrics", "observability.logs", "observability.traces", "observability.incidents", "work.oncall" ], "tags": [ "official", "local", "open-source", "self-hosted", "mcp", "go", "docker", "helm", "grafana", "llms-txt", "telemetry-default-on" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 74.5, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 69, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 95, "payments": 60, "reliability": 91, "schema": 81, "security": 65, "transparency": 79 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "-3: before 0.17.2 (13 July 2026) a URL in the then undocumented `X-Grafana-URL` request header caused the server's environment service account token, API key, basic auth or extra headers to be sent to a host the caller chose, on the HTTP transports. Fixed and described in the changelog, whose entry links a placeholder pull request number, and no advisory was published, so a reduced deduction (https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)." ], "verdict": "Every tool carries typed inputs and read-only, destructive and idempotent annotations, and `--disable-write` cuts the default 79 tools to 62. Writes and a general `grafana_api_request` tool are on by default, the default tool list is about 107 KB, and usage statistics have been sent to Grafana Labs by default since 2.0.0.", "bestFor": "Teams on Grafana, self-managed or Cloud, that want an agent to read dashboards and query Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope, and to work with alert rules, incidents and OnCall.", "strengths": [ "All 79 default tools in 2.0.2 declare typed JSON Schema inputs and `readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint` and `idempotentHint` annotations", "`--disable-write`, `--disable-query`, per-category flags and Loki enforced matchers narrow what the server can do, with a per-tool table of required RBAC permissions", "17 tagged releases between 13 July and 7 October 2026, with a Keep a Changelog file that labels breaking changes", "Unit, integration and end-to-end workflows all passed on main on 8 October 2026", "Dashboard summary, JSONPath property reads, jq filtering and a 100-line Loki default keep responses small" ], "weaknesses": [ "The default set is 79 tools and about 107 KB of definitions, and 119 tools with every category on", "Write tools and `grafana_api_request`, which can call any Grafana API path, are enabled unless the operator turns them off", "Anonymous usage statistics went from off by default in 1.5.0 (17 September 2026) to on by default in 2.0.0", "A credential-forwarding flaw fixed in 0.17.2 on 13 July 2026 has no published advisory, and the repository has no SECURITY.md", "No prompt-injection guidance for log lines and dashboard content. Issue #680 on the subject has been open since 24 March 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start with `--disable-write` unless the task needs writes, and add `--disable-api` to remove `grafana_api_request`", "Pass `--enabled-tools` with only the categories needed. The default list loads 79 tools", "Use `get_dashboard_summary` or `get_dashboard_property` with a JSONPath before `get_dashboard_by_uid`, which returns the whole dashboard JSON", "Set `GRAFANA_USAGE_STATS=disabled` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to stop the four-hourly usage report to stats.grafana.org", "Use streamable HTTP, not SSE, when each caller needs its own token or organisation, and set `--server-auth-token` on any non-loopback address" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 74.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 74, "maintenance": 95, "payments": 60, "reliability": 91, "schema": 81, "security": 65, "transparency": 81 }, "provenanceScore": 76 }, "connect": { "install": "uvx mcp-grafana", "config": { "mcpServers": { "grafana": { "args": [ "mcp-grafana" ], "command": "uvx", "env": { "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "\u003cyour service account token\u003e", "GRAFANA_URL": "http://localhost:3000" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/observability.metrics", "tool": "https://letme.dev/grafana-mcp-server" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Raintank Inc., d/b/a Grafana Labs", "domain": "grafana.com", "domainRegistered": "2014-05-27", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://grafana.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "No terms document governs this software beyond the Apache-2.0 licence, so `terms` is left out.", "The privacy policy (last updated 10 July 2026) names Raintank Inc., d/b/a Grafana Labs, 165 Broadway, 23rd Floor, New York, and says its open-source and commercial software may report usage statistics.", "grafana.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. Reports go to an Intigriti disclosure programme or security@grafana.com, with no bounties (https://grafana.com/legal/report-a-security-issue/).", "RDAP for grafana.com gives a registration date of 2014-05-27.", "The server runs on the owner's machine. Usage reports go to stats.grafana.org, a second Grafana Labs domain." ], "score": 76 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.json" }, "answer": "Grafana MCP Server scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against PagerDuty MCP Server's 48.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "pagerduty-mcp", "name": "PagerDuty MCP Server", "vendor": "PagerDuty", "vendorUrl": "https://support.pagerduty.com/main/docs/pagerduty-mcp-server", "kind": "mcp", "category": "observability", "summary": "PagerDuty's hosted MCP server at mcp.pagerduty.com (EU at mcp.eu.pagerduty.com) for incidents, services, schedules, on-call, escalation policies, alerts and analytics, with OAuth or API-key auth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pagerduty-mcp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pagerduty-mcp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pagerduty-mcp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pagerduty-mcp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/PagerDuty/pagerduty-mcp-server", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "OAuth with metadata discovery using static client credentials (no dynamic client registration), an OAuth bearer token such as a client-credentials app token, or an API key in `Authorization: Token token=\u003ckey\u003e`. Scoped OAuth apps use per-resource scopes and require PKCE. Some tools and filters need user-level rather than account-level auth. EU accounts use mcp.eu.pagerduty.com.", "pricing": "byo-plan", "pricingNotes": "No separate charge stated. The MCP docs list a PagerDuty account with Advanced Permissions as a prerequisite, and the pricing page includes Advanced Permissions in the PD Reliability Platform tiers (Starter $2,800 a year, Essential $12,000, Plus $48,000). Incident Management Free (5 users) and Professional ($21 per user a month billed yearly, $25 monthly) are also public. Whether the free plan can use MCP isn't stated (https://www.pagerduty.com/pricing/incident-management/).", "priceSummary": "Your plan", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No payments. 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No read-only mode on the hosted server, where the local one was read-only by default.", "bestFor": "Incident and on-call agents in PagerDuty shops.", "strengths": [ "Scoped OAuth with per-resource scopes and mandatory PKCE, or an API key in a header", "US and EU endpoints documented", "REST limits published at 960 requests a minute with ratelimit-reset headers", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP Low", "The local server was archived with a pointer to the hosted one" ], "weaknesses": [ "No read-only mode on the hosted server, where the local one was read-only by default", "Hosted tool list, schemas and changelog aren't published", "No native tool filtering, so the full list loads whatever the OAuth scopes allow", "Advanced Permissions, a Reliability Platform feature from $2,800 a year, is listed as a prerequisite", "The official registry entry still points at the archived 0.2.1 package" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use a scoped OAuth client with read scopes only if the agent shouldn't acknowledge, resolve or edit anything", "Use a user API key or user OAuth for `assigned` or `teams` filters. Account-level keys fail those calls", "Pass `limit` and a `since` date on incident lists. The default limit is 1,000 records", "EU accounts must use mcp.eu.pagerduty.com", "On 429, wait `ratelimit-reset` seconds. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pagerduty-mcp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pagerduty-mcp.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Grafana MCP Server (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams on Grafana, self-managed or Cloud, that want an agent to read dashboards and query Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and Pyroscope, and to work with alert rules, incidents and OnCall.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 91 against 52\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 49\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 95 against 32\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 79 against 63\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The default set is 79 tools and about 107 KB of definitions, and 119 tools with every category on\n\n### PagerDuty MCP Server (D)\n\nGood for: Incident and on-call agents in PagerDuty shops.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Grafana MCP Server loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No read-only mode on the hosted server, where the local one was read-only by default\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Grafana MCP Server | PagerDuty MCP Server | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 91 | 52 | Grafana MCP Server +39 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 55 | Grafana MCP Server +26 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 49 | Grafana MCP Server +25 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 65 | 66 | PagerDuty MCP Server +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 10 | Grafana MCP Server +50 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 95 | 32 | Grafana MCP Server +63 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 63 | Grafana MCP Server +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.5 · BB** | **48.4 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Grafana MCP Server | PagerDuty MCP Server |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | MCP server | MCP server |\n| Vendor | Grafana Labs | PagerDuty |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | stdio, SSE (legacy), Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Your plan |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 119 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-04 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2023-12-21 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-10 | 2025-09-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 3.5k stars, 152k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 1.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Grafana MCP Server.** Every tool carries typed inputs and read-only, destructive and idempotent annotations, and `--disable-write` cuts the default 79 tools to 62. Writes and a general `grafana_api_request` tool are on by default, the default tool list is about 107 KB, and usage statistics have been sent to Grafana Labs by default since 2.0.0.\n\n**PagerDuty MCP Server.** Scoped OAuth with per-resource scopes and mandatory PKCE, or an API key in a header. No read-only mode on the hosted server, where the local one was read-only by default.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Grafana MCP Server\n\n1. Start with `--disable-write` unless the task needs writes, and add `--disable-api` to remove `grafana_api_request`\n2. Pass `--enabled-tools` with only the categories needed. The default list loads 79 tools\n3. Use `get_dashboard_summary` or `get_dashboard_property` with a JSONPath before `get_dashboard_by_uid`, which returns the whole dashboard JSON\n4. Set `GRAFANA_USAGE_STATS=disabled` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to stop the four-hourly usage report to stats.grafana.org\n5. Use streamable HTTP, not SSE, when each caller needs its own token or organisation, and set `--server-auth-token` on any non-loopback address\n\n### PagerDuty MCP Server\n\n1. Use a scoped OAuth client with read scopes only if the agent shouldn't acknowledge, resolve or edit anything\n2. Use a user API key or user OAuth for `assigned` or `teams` filters. Account-level keys fail those calls\n3. Pass `limit` and a `since` date on incident lists. The default limit is 1,000 records\n4. EU accounts must use mcp.eu.pagerduty.com\n5. On 429, wait `ratelimit-reset` seconds. There's no Retry-After header\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Grafana MCP Server or PagerDuty MCP Server?\n\nGrafana MCP Server scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against PagerDuty MCP Server's 48.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do Grafana MCP Server and PagerDuty MCP Server need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Grafana MCP Server and PagerDuty MCP Server without installing anything?\n\nGrafana MCP Server runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. PagerDuty MCP Server has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp.\n\n### Are Grafana MCP Server and PagerDuty MCP Server open source?\n\nGrafana MCP Server is open source (Apache-2.0). 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