get_sift_investigation

What get_sift_investigation does on Grafana MCP Server

AI agents call get_sift_investigation to retrieve information from Grafana MCP Server without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why get_sift_investigation is rated Low

The tool performs a retrieval operation on an investigation object identified by UUID. There is no modification, deletion, or execution of external operations. The action is a simple data fetch, consistent with Read category tools like get, fetch, and retrieve operations. Severity is low as this only accesses existing monitoring/investigation data without risk of unintended state changes.

From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'get' and description states 'Retrieves an existing Sift investigation' - both indicate a read-only query operation with no side effects.

The rule that runs get_sift_investigation safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Grafana MCP Server, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For get_sift_investigation, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "get_sift_investigation": {}
  }
}

Questions about get_sift_investigation