Exploring Observability with MCP Servers

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Open-source Grafana MCP server exposes Grafana, Pyroscope and connected backends to LLMs so assistants can list services, query failing traces, add flame graphs and create dashboards by calling tools rather than scraping the UI. Authentication uses service account tokens or basic creds, Grafana can proxy other MCP servers such as Tempo MCP server, and the project lives in the MCP Grafana repo. Demo reliability depends on network; the server reports about 52 tools enabled.

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1. 0:00Observability and MCP intro
2. 1:04Four pillars of observability
3. 2:47LLM limitations without tools
4. 6:02Model Context Protocol explained
5. 7:50Grafana MCP server
6. 9:14Setting up Grafana MCP
7. 12:46Demo querying observability
8. 18:00Creating dashboards with MCP
9. 20:10Other MCP servers
10. 24:49Resources and closing

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