grafana-cloud-mcp-tools
Connect to and use the Grafana Cloud MCP server effectively, including natural-language Grafana Assistant questions and observability investigations. Covers setup, OAuth authorization, tool categories, read/write access scopes, and best practices for context window management. Use when the user wants to set up Grafana Cloud MCP, ask Grafana Assistant a question, investigate metrics, logs, traces, profiles, dashboards, alerts, or incidents, needs guidance on which tool to use, or wants to understand access scopes.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "grafana/ai-marketplace:plugins/grafana-cloud-mcp/skills/grafana-cloud-mcp-tools" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/grafana/ai-marketplace /tmp/ai-marketplace && ln -s /tmp/ai-marketplace/plugins/grafana-cloud-mcp/skills/grafana-cloud-mcp-tools ~/.claude/skills/grafana-cloud-mcp-toolsFrom README
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 or environment variables are required. steps The MCP server connects automatically when the plugin loads. When prompted, enter your Grafana Cloud URL and authorize the connection in your browser. 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.