Run a dashboard panel query

Use the Grafana MCP server to run a dashboard panel’s query (the same query the panel uses) with a custom time range and variable overrides. This is useful when you want the assistant to “run what this panel runs” without writing PromQL or LogQL yourself.

What you’ll achieve

You point the assistant at a dashboard and panel; the assistant uses the server’s run-panel-query tool to execute that panel’s query and return the result (or an error if the query or datasource is invalid).

Before you begin

The server set up and configured with access to Grafana.
The run-panel-query tool must be enabled (it’s disabled by default). Add runpanelquery to Enable and disable tools.
The service account must have dashboards:read and datasources:query with scope for the dashboard and the datasource the panel uses.

Run the panel query

Ask the assistant to run the query for a specific panel on a dashboard. Provide (or let the assistant look up) the dashboard UID and panel ID. You can specify a time range (for example, last 1 hour) and variable overrides so the query runs with the same logic as the panel but with your chosen parameters. The assistant calls the server’s run-panel-query tool and returns the result.