# Grafana MCP Server vs Rootly MCP Server (slim)

> Grafana scores 74.5 (BB) to Rootly's 59.7 (C) for incidents. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Grafana MCP Server scores 74.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Rootly MCP Server's 59.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do incidents.

- Grafana MCP Server: BB 74.5, rank #70 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/grafana-mcp-server.min.md
- Rootly MCP Server: C 59.7, rank #541 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rootly-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 48; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 95 against 81. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Rootly MCP Server, good for Incident and on-call agents in teams that already run Rootly. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Grafana MCP Server | Rootly MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 91 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 65 | 65 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 95 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Grafana MCP Server | Rootly MCP Server |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Grafana Labs | Rootly Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.rootly.com/mcp` |
| Transports | stdio, SSE (legacy), Streamable HTTP | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Price for incidents | free | $20 per seat per month |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 for the server. The hosted service runs under Rootly's Terms of Use |
| Tools exposed | 119 | 218 |
| MCP registry | `io.github.grafana/mcp-grafana` | `com.rootly/mcp-server` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-10 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 3.5k stars, 152k PyPI/wk | none |