Grafana MCP: dashboards, Loki and Mimir status in your AI app

How to connect Grafana to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Grafana free and sign in with your Grafana Cloud account.
2. 2Every tool is on after you connect, and the full list appears then. Keep the status and dashboard tools, and switch off anything that writes, such as sending OpenTelemetry logs into Loki, if your AI app should only look.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app whether your Grafana instance is healthy and can reach its database, then open Activity to see the check.

Grafana checks to run from a chat

• Query a panel on a public dashboard for its time series data.
• Confirm Grafana's web server is running and can reach its database.
• Inspect Loki and Mimir internals, like the index gateway and ruler rings or the HA tracker leader for each Prometheus cluster.
• List the tenants with blocks in the store gateway, or check the Enterprise license status.

Keep Grafana reads and writes apart

• Switch off log ingestion and anything else that writes, and your AI app is left with read-only checks.
• Policies check every call, so secrets such as tokens can be blocked from passing through.
• Activity keeps a record of each Grafana call your team's AI apps make.

What you get with Grafana and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use GrafanaClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Grafana through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Grafana tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Grafana tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Grafana. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Get Grafana Health StatusCheck Grafana server health and database connectivity. Returns 'ok' if Grafana's web server is running and can access the database. Use when you need to verify Grafana instance availability before per
• Get Index Gateway Ring StatusTool to retrieve the index gateway hash ring status from Grafana Loki. Returns information about the state, health, and last heartbeat time of each index gateway in the ring.
• Get Ruler Ring StatusTool to retrieve the ruler ring status from Grafana Mimir. Use when you need to check the distributed hash ring topology and operational status of ruler instances.
• Get License StatusTool to check if a valid Grafana Enterprise license is available. Use when you need to verify license status or availability.
• Post ACSTool to perform SAML Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) operation. Use when processing SAML authentication responses from an identity provider. This endpoint typically handles the SAML assertion and ret
• Query Public Dashboard PanelQuery a panel on a public Grafana dashboard to retrieve time-series data and metrics. Use when you need to fetch visualization data from a publicly shared dashboard without authentication. Returns dat
• Retrieve JWKSTool to retrieve JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) with all public keys for token verification. Use when you need to get the keys that can verify JWT tokens.
• Create OTLP v1 LogsTool to create OTLP v1 logs in Grafana Loki. Use when you need to send OpenTelemetry Protocol logs to Grafana for ingestion and storage.
• Get Distributor HA TrackerTool to retrieve distributor HA tracker status. Use when you need to check which replica has been elected as leader for each Prometheus HA cluster.
• Get overrides exporter ringTool to retrieve the overrides-exporter hash ring status as an HTML page. Use when you need to check the state, health, and heartbeat information of overrides-exporter instances. Only accessible when
• Get Store Gateway TenantsRetrieves store gateway tenants. Returns a list of tenants that have blocks stored in the store-gateway's configured storage. Use when you need to view which tenants have data stored on a store-gatewa