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Grafana How-To Guides

This guide covers our specific workflows and custom features within Grafana.
For general usage, refer to the official Grafana documentation.

Adding Grafana MCP to an LLM​

You can leverage our custom LLM integration to build and modify dashboards using natural language.
To do this, you need to configure your LLM client (like Gemini, Claude Desktop, etc.) to use the Grafana MCP server.

Here is an example of the settings you need to add to your agent's configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-grafana"],
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_URL": "https://grafana.mapcolonies.net",
        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Monitoring Redis​

If you are deploying your own Redis instance, prefer using installed redis-app plugin instead of using redis-exporter

  1. Navigate to the Redis app plugin in the Grafana sidebar.
  2. Use the pre-built, ready-to-use dashboards provided by the plugin.
  3. Utilize the plugin's custom UI to query your Redis instances directly without needing to write complex PromQL.