grafana-cloud-mcp-tools

grafana-cloud-mcp-tools is a skill for Claude Code from grafana/ai-marketplace. It costs 104 tokens per session (2,027 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A connection to Grafana Cloud, a hosted service for viewing metrics, logs, dashboards, alerts, and incidents. It lets an assistant ask questions about that monitoring data and, when permitted, make changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect dashboards, alerts, incidents, and data sources, query monitoring data, and—when write access is granted—create or modify dashboards, alerts, and incidents.
Why use it?
It removes the need to switch between Grafana screens and manually assemble information during an investigation. Permission choices can limit the connection to viewing or allow changes.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the grafana-cloud-mcp plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect dashboards, alerts, incidents, and data sources, query monitoring data, and—when write access is granted—create or modify dashboards, alerts, and incidents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/grafana/ai-marketplace/grafana-cloud-mcp-tools
About the project

Grafana AI Marketplace is a collection of plugins and related configuration for using AI coding agents with Grafana observability workflows. It connects agents to Grafana through either a hosted Grafana Cloud MCP server or a locally run Grafana MCP service, and its catalogue add-ons provide those integrations.

grafana/ai-marketplace · 17 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add grafana/ai-marketplace --skill grafana-cloud-mcp-tools
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grafana/ai-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grafana-cloud-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,027 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00104 $0.02027
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.01014
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00405
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00203

Measured 13d ago against content hash ef06860b9d2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grafana-cloud-mcp-tools scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 13d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/grafana-cloud-mcp/skills/grafana-cloud-mcp-tools/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grafana Cloud MCP Server

Hosted MCP server providing 60+ Grafana Cloud tools via Streamable HTTP transport with OAuth 2.1 authorization.

Prerequisites

  • Grafana Cloud account (self-hosted users should use the local OSS MCP server instead)
  • Assistant Cloud MCP User role or grafana-assistant-app.cloud-mcp:access permission (Editor role or higher has this by default)
  • An administrator must have accepted the Grafana Assistant terms and conditions

Configuration

The Cloud MCP server connects via https://mcp.grafana.com/mcp using Streamable HTTP transport. No local installation or environment variables are required.

Setup steps

  1. The MCP server connects automatically when the plugin loads.
  2. When prompted, enter your Grafana Cloud URL and authorize the connection in your browser.
  3. Your OAuth token is valid for 1 hour and refreshes automatically for 30 days.

Read and write access

When authorizing, you choose which permissions to grant:

  • Read access: View dashboards, alerts, incidents, and query data sources. Always available.
  • Write access: Create and modify dashboards, alerts, and incidents. You can uncheck this to grant read-only access.

Organization Admins can grant write access by default. If write access is disabled on the consent page, the user needs the Assistant Admin role.

Tool categories

Search and navigation

  • search_dashboards — search for dashboards by query string
  • search_folders — search for folders by query string
  • generate_deeplink — generate deeplink URLs for dashboards, panels, and Explore queries

Dashboards and folders

  • get_dashboard_by_uid — retrieve the complete dashboard JSON by UID
  • get_dashboard_summary — compact summary without full JSON (preferred)
  • get_dashboard_property — extract specific parts via JSONPath
  • get_dashboard_panel_queries — retrieve panel queries with template variable substitution
  • update_dashboard — create or update a dashboard (Write)
  • create_folder — create a Grafana folder (Write)

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 178 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A ef06860b9d2e

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grafana-cloud-mcp-tools is a skill published in the GitHub repository grafana/ai-marketplace (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 2,027 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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