Appendix A — Grafana MCP Tool Reference Used in This Project¶
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
query_prometheus |
Instant/range PromQL queries for SLO metrics |
query_prometheus_histogram |
Latency percentile breakdowns |
list_alert_groups |
Check currently firing alerts |
describe_infrastructure |
Service topology and dependencies for root-cause scoping |
query_loki_logs |
LogQL queries for error signatures |
query_loki_patterns |
Detect common log patterns during correlation |
tempo_traceql-search / tempo_get-trace |
Pull exemplar traces through the request path |
create_incident / add_activity_to_incident |
Open and annotate a Grafana Incident |
get_current_oncall_users / list_oncall_schedules |
Identify who to page |
generate_deeplink |
Human-readable link back into Grafana for deeper digging |
alerting_manage_rules |
Read/adjust alert rules as part of remediation |
create_annotation |
Mark exactly when/where an issue began on a dashboard panel |
get_panel_image |
Render a dashboard panel as PNG for the control room UI and postmortem |
get_incident / get_annotations / get_dashboard_summary |
Postmortem assembly |
See low-level-design.md for which agent owns which tools.