# Grafana MCP Server vs PagerDuty MCP Server (slim)

> 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. Both do incidents. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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. Both do incidents.

- Grafana MCP Server: BB 74.5, rank #69 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.min.md
- PagerDuty MCP Server: D 48.4, rank #724 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pagerduty-mcp.min.md
- Grafana MCP Server, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 91 against 52; Schema & documentation, 81 against 55; Agent ergonomics, 74 against 49; Payments & pricing, 60 against 10; Maintenance & community, 95 against 32; Transparency & trust, 79 against 63. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- PagerDuty MCP Server, good for Incident and on-call agents in PagerDuty shops. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Grafana MCP Server loses 3 points for them.

| Category | Grafana MCP Server | PagerDuty MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 91 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 55 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 10 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 95 | 32 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grafana MCP Server | PagerDuty MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Grafana Labs | PagerDuty |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp` |
| Transports | stdio, SSE (legacy), Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Your plan |
| Tools exposed | 119 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-04 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2023-12-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-10 | 2025-09-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 3.5k stars, 152k PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 1.5/5 (2) |