Grafana in ChatGPT. In five minutes.
Connect Grafana in Loopthink, paste one URL into ChatGPT, ask. Hosted in the EU, every call logged.
Free for 2 connectors, no card · Pro €19 · EU-hosted
Three steps. The third one is asking.
- 1
Connect Grafana in Loopthink
Service account token, Viewer role.
- 2
Paste one URL into ChatGPT
Add a custom connector with a name and the URL. That is the whole form.
- 3
Ask
"Which alerts fired in the last 24 hours, and are any of them still firing?" Every answer comes from your data, every call is logged.
Show all steps
- 1
Grafana → Administration → Users and access → Service accounts → Add service account. Role: Viewer.
- 2
Open the account → Add service account token. Set an expiration date; Loopthink tells you before it runs out.
- 3
Paste the token and your Grafana URL into Loopthink. Nobody on the team handles it again.
- 4
An admin turns on Developer mode: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings. On Enterprise and Edu, admins first grant it under Permissions & Roles → Connected Data.
- 5
Workspace settings → Apps → Create: paste your Loopthink connector URL, choose OAuth, click Scan Tools, then Create. Publish the draft under Workspace settings → Apps → Drafts.
- 6
Each team member picks Loopthink from the tools menu in a chat, or @mentions it, and signs in once with their own account.
Steps checked against the vendor documentation on 17 September 2026: Service accounts · Data source permissions · Grafana MCP server · Developer mode and MCP apps in ChatGPT · Connectors in ChatGPT
What people actually ask ChatGPT about Grafana.
- SRE
“Which alerts fired in the last 24 hours, and are any of them still firing?”
- Developers
“Show me the p95 latency of checkout-api over the last seven days.”
- Management
“Uptime of the customer portal this month, against the 99.9 target?”
Grafana has an MCP server. Why Loopthink?
The official Grafana MCP runs with one service account token, org-wide, and its README recommends the Editor role.
Loopthink runs hosted and gives ChatGPT a URL. Every colleague signs in with their own account and sees only what you ticked.
Before you connect.
- Does every team member need their own Grafana account?
- No. Loopthink holds one key or token for Grafana. Your people sign in to Loopthink with their own identity, and every call to Grafana is logged under their name. Seats in Grafana stay where they are today.
- Who has to add the connector in ChatGPT?
- One person with the right to add connectors in your ChatGPT workspace, once. After that every team member enables it for themselves. Nobody pastes a key, nobody edits a config file.
- Where does the Grafana key live?
- In Loopthink, encrypted, in the EU. It never reaches ChatGPT and never reaches the people using the connector. Rotate it in Grafana whenever you like and paste the new one once.
- Can somebody write to Grafana from the chat?
- Not unless you switch it on. Write actions are a separate row in the permission matrix and are off for every role by default. If a role needs one write tool, you grant that one tool to that one role.
- What does it cost?
- Free for one person and two connectors, no card. Pro is €19 a month for up to five people and every connector on the site, with roles, field masking and a 30-day audit. Team is €49 for ten people and adds your own REST APIs and SQL databases, your own domain and your own identity provider. No call needed.
- We already run our own MCP server for Grafana. Does it still work?
- Yes. Point it at Loopthink and it inherits the same login, roles, masking and audit. Nothing on the server has to change.
One matrix for Grafana. Roles across, tools down.
| Tool | SRE | Developers | Management |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dashboards | SRE may use Dashboards | Developers may use Dashboards | Management may use Dashboards |
| Data source queries | SRE may use Data source queries | Developers may use Data source queries | Management may not use Data source queries |
| Alerts & incidents | SRE may use Alerts & incidents | Developers may use Alerts & incidents | Management may use Alerts & incidents |
| Logs (Loki) | SRE may use Logs (Loki) | Developers may use Logs (Loki) | Management may not use Logs (Loki) |
| OnCall schedule | SRE may use OnCall schedule | Developers may not use OnCall schedule | Management may not use OnCall schedule |
| Write actions off by default | SRE may not use Write actions | Developers may not use Write actions | Management may not use Write actions |
Masked for every role: IP addresses in log lines, user emails in annotations, contact point addresses.
You set this once. Every ChatGPT user in your team gets exactly this.
Grafana runs on the free tier: two connectors for one person, no card. Roles, a login for every colleague and field masking start at €19 a month with Pro. See the plans
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Free for 2 connectors, no card · Pro €19 · EU-hosted