Grafana MCP for VS Code
io.github.itzhouq/grafana-mcp
Read-only project-level Grafana MCP: Loki logs, metrics, traces, alerts, test/prod switching
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:npm
Install Grafana MCP in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-test-url",
"description": "GRAFANA_TEST_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-test-user",
"description": "GRAFANA_TEST_USER",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-test-password",
"description": "GRAFANA_TEST_PASSWORD",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-prod-url",
"description": "GRAFANA_PROD_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-prod-user",
"description": "GRAFANA_PROD_USER",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-prod-password",
"description": "GRAFANA_PROD_PASSWORD",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-env",
"description": "GRAFANA_ENV",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "grafana-app",
"description": "GRAFANA_APP",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"grafana-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"grafana-mcp"
],
"env": {
"GRAFANA_TEST_URL": "${input:grafana-test-url}",
"GRAFANA_TEST_USER": "${input:grafana-test-user}",
"GRAFANA_TEST_PASSWORD": "${input:grafana-test-password}",
"GRAFANA_PROD_URL": "${input:grafana-prod-url}",
"GRAFANA_PROD_USER": "${input:grafana-prod-user}",
"GRAFANA_PROD_PASSWORD": "${input:grafana-prod-password}",
"GRAFANA_ENV": "${input:grafana-env}",
"GRAFANA_APP": "${input:grafana-app}"
}
}
}
}
VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs