What can the assistant change in Grafana?

It can add an annotation, save a dashboard and create a silence, each of which waits for a person’s approval by default. A dashboard save never overwrites unless asked, and Grafana keeps the earlier version in its history. Deleting dashboards, folders, annotations and silences, changing alert rules and contact points, users, teams, service accounts and data source settings are left out on purpose.

Can it run any query on my data sources?

It runs queries the way a panel does, for example PromQL, LogQL or SQL, within what the service account may read. SQL runs as the data source’s own database user, so give that user only read rights.

Which AI assistants can use Grafana through Flowplane?

Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Mistral Le Chat, and any other client that supports remote MCP servers with sign-in. They all reach Grafana through the same Flowplane address.

Free for one person, with up to three apps and five assistants. Personal Pro is €9 a month including VAT; companies start at €99 a month for ten active users. Prices are indicative; see the pricing page.

Building software

Grafana MCP server

For teams that watch their systems in Grafana, on Grafana Cloud or their own server (Grafana 10 and later). Through Flowplane an AI assistant can search dashboards, read a dashboard’s panels and queries, run a query on a data source, and list alert rules with their state, silences and annotations. Adding an annotation, saving a dashboard and silencing alerts wait for your approval by default.

Connect Grafana →Set up your assistant

Tools: 8 read · 3 change
Sign-in: One shared key
Approval, by default: Changes wait for you
MCP server: Flowplane’s tools

What it can do

What your assistant can do in Grafana

8 tools that read and 3 that change something in Grafana. Reads are allowed; a change marked “asks first” waits for the person’s approval by default, and your workspace’s rules decide the rest.

Reads8

Check the connectionSee which account it uses and whether it workswhoami
Search dashboardsDashboards and folders by name or tagsearch_dashboards
Read a dashboardA dashboard's panels and their queriesget_dashboard
List datasourcesThe data sources dashboards read fromlist_datasources
Query a data sourceRun a query on a data sourcequery_datasource
List alert rulesAlert rules and which are firinglist_alert_rules
List silencesSilences set on alertslist_silences
List annotationsAnnotations on dashboards, and alert changeslist_annotations

Changesasks first3

Save dashboardCreate or update a dashboard, asked firstsave_dashboard
Silence alertsMute matching alerts, asked first by defaultcreate_silence
Create annotationMark a moment on a dashboard, asked firstcreate_annotation

How it connects

Sign-in

Grafana is reached with a service account token, made in Grafana under Administration, Users and access, Service accounts. The workspace pastes it once. The service account’s role caps everything: Viewer reads dashboards, alerts and annotations; Editor can also write annotations, silences and dashboards. Flowplane keeps it sealed; the assistant never sees it.

In Flowplane: In the Flowplane console, add Grafana, type the address you open Grafana at and paste the service account token. A Grafana behind a firewall connects through a tunnel.

MCP

Grafana and MCP

Grafana publishes an official open-source MCP server, mcp-grafana, which you run yourself and which signs in with the same kind of service account token. Flowplane does not pass it through: it talks to Grafana’s HTTP API directly, so there is no server to run.

Try it

Things to ask

“Which alerts are firing right now?”
“Show the error rate panel of the API dashboard for the last 6 hours.”
“Find our dashboards tagged kubernetes.”
“Silence the disk space alerts on db-2 for two hours while we resize it.”
“Add an annotation to the checkout dashboard: deployed version 4.2 at 14:00.”

Your assistant

Connect your assistant to Grafana

One Flowplane address works in every assistant below, with the same rules and the same log. Step-by-step setup for each:

FAQ

Questions

What can the assistant change in Grafana?: It can add an annotation, save a dashboard and create a silence, each of which waits for a person’s approval by default. A dashboard save never overwrites unless asked, and Grafana keeps the earlier version in its history. Deleting dashboards, folders, annotations and silences, changing alert rules and contact points, users, teams, service accounts and data source settings are left out on purpose.
Can it run any query on my data sources?: It runs queries the way a panel does, for example PromQL, LogQL or SQL, within what the service account may read. SQL runs as the data source’s own database user, so give that user only read rights.
Which AI assistants can use Grafana through Flowplane?: Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Mistral Le Chat, and any other client that supports remote MCP servers with sign-in. They all reach Grafana through the same Flowplane address.
What does it cost?: Free for one person, with up to three apps and five assistants. Personal Pro is €9 a month including VAT; companies start at €99 a month for ten active users. Prices are indicative; see the pricing page.

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