Grafana Campfire - Using the Grafana MCP Server (Grafana Community Call - July 2025)
In this month of the Campfire Community call, we will exploring the Grafana MCP (Model Context Protocol) server - an open-source tool that enables AI assistants to directly interact with your Grafana instance. We will learn some basics such as:
- how LLMs can now query datasources, dashboard etc.
- making Grafana operations more intuitive and accessible for genAI
- how this "USB-C for AI apps" can improve your observability workflows.
Join me (Usman), Matt Ryer, and David Kaltschmidt for this exciting session.
Expert guests: Ioanna Armouti, and Luccas Quadros
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00:00 Introductions
03:40 A recap about AI and LLM development and their recent use-case
12:54 Looking into the history of LLM
14:06 LLM 1.0
19:00 Beyond LLM
20:09 Intro to MCP Server
30:00 Grafana MCP Server
38:55 Demo 1
47:25 Demo 2
53:25 Q&A Session
�� *HELPFUL LINKS*
Grafana MCP Repo:
https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana
Use LLMs and Grafana MCP in Grafana app plugins:
https://grafana.com/developers/plugin-tools/how-to-guides/app-plugins/use-llms-and-mcp
Feel free to use the YouTube live chat feature 📝 to start submitting questions, and we will add them to the agenda.