Grafana Partner ConnectorConnect Grafana Without Constraints
IntelliPaaS seamlessly connects Grafana with your core business systems, enabling no-code integration for observability, alert routing and incident workflows across cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments.
Grafana ships two first-party servers and the difference decides your architecture. Grafana Cloud's hosted service at mcp.grafana.com is generally available, Streamable HTTP only, and uses OAuth 2.1 scoped by Grafana RBAC — read access is always granted and write access requires explicit consent at authorization time. It does not support self-hosted Grafana. The open source server is a binary you run yourself, works with Grafana 9 and later over stdio or HTTP, authenticates with a service account token, and is the right answer for residency-constrained estates. The open source build also ships the cleanest safety switch in the category: a flag that disables every mutating tool outright, plus several tool categories disabled by default to conserve context. Sixty or more tools cover search, dashboards, datasource queries across Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and more, alerting, annotations, incidents and on-call.
Grafana integration capabilities
- Search dashboards, folders and datasources, and read dashboard definitions.
- Query Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Pyroscope, ClickHouse, CloudWatch and Elasticsearch datasources.
- Read and manage alert rules and contact points.
- Create annotations and read incident and on-call state.
- Create and update dashboards where write access is granted.
- Run strictly read-only through the open source server's disable-write flag.
These capabilities let observability data and incident state move between Grafana and the systems that run operations, so alerts do not stop at a dashboard. IntelliPaaS handles field mapping, query construction and data type transformation automatically.
Common integration scenarios
- Raise a PagerDuty or ServiceNow incident from a Grafana alert with query context attached.
- Post alert summaries and dashboard snapshots into Slack or Microsoft Teams.
- Annotate dashboards automatically on deployment from GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps.
- Provision dashboards and alert rules as new services are onboarded.
- Load service health and incident metrics into Power BI or Snowflake.
These scenarios address the most common friction in observability — alerts that reach a dashboard nobody is watching, and incident context assembled by hand — by automating the flows between Grafana and the platforms around it.
Deployment & security
Flexible deployment is essential for organisations operating in regulated industries or jurisdictions with strict data residency requirements. IntelliPaaS supports private cloud and on-premise deployments with full regional data sovereignty, and Grafana's open source server can run entirely inside your own estate — the real answer for residency-constrained observability data. All deployment modes receive the same feature set, connector library and support tier, with no capability trade-offs based on deployment choice.
Why IntelliPaaS
- No-code to pro-code flexibility for all integration needs.
- End-to-end security with OAuth 2.1 and Grafana RBAC, or scoped service account tokens.
- A genuine self-hosted option, so observability data never has to leave your estate.
- Enterprise-grade observability with monitoring, alerting and audit logging.
Frequently connected apps
Datadog
New Relic
Dynatrace
Splunk
PagerDuty
ServiceNow
Elasticsearch
SolarWinds
Azure DevOps
SlackFrequently asked questions
What authentication does the connector use?
Grafana Cloud uses OAuth 2.1 scoped by Grafana RBAC, with read access always granted and write access requiring explicit consent at authorization time. The open source server uses a Grafana service account token, with per-tool RBAC applied.
Does the hosted service work with self-hosted Grafana?
No. The Grafana Cloud service supports Grafana Cloud only. Self-hosted estates use the open source server, which IntelliPaaS runs in whichever deployment mode you use — it needs Grafana 9 or later.
How do I keep it read-only?
On the open source server, a disable-write flag blocks every mutating tool, and several tool categories are disabled by default to conserve context. On Grafana Cloud, simply decline write consent at authorization.
Can I deploy on-premise or in a private cloud?
Yes, and this connector is a particularly good fit for it. Cloud (SaaS), private cloud in your own VPC, and fully on-premise or air-gapped deployments are all supported, with full feature parity across every mode.
Is my data secure?
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and IntelliPaaS is GDPR-ready. Access follows Grafana RBAC, the self-hosted path keeps telemetry inside your own boundary, and note that Cloud users connecting via MCP count toward the organisation's Grafana Assistant usage.