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Grafana MCP Dashboard
Create a Grafana dashboard for MCP metrics, logs, traces, tool latency, errors, and auth events.
Quick Answer / TL;DR
Grafana can monitor MCP servers by charting exported metrics such as requests, p95 latency, tool errors, auth failures, and redaction events.
Key Takeaways
- Export consistent labels.
- Separate tool and downstream latency.
- Alert on policy failures.
Metric labels
Use low-cardinality labels. Avoid putting user IDs, emails, request bodies, or customer identifiers into metrics labels.
mcp_tool_latency_ms{server="payments",tool="settlements.read",region="mumbai"} 42
mcp_tool_errors_total{server="payments",tool="refund.create",reason="approval_required"} 3Grafana MCP Dashboard FAQs
Direct answers for developers, operators, and Indian teams evaluating MCP.