Search for Grafana dashboards by a query string. Returns a list of matching dashboards with details like title, UID, folder, tags, and URL.
AI agents call search_dashboards to retrieve information from Mcp Grafana without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves and queries dashboard metadata (title, UID, folder, tags, URL) with no side effects. It is a search/read operation that does not create, modify, delete, or execute any actions. The blast radius of misuse is minimal—an attacker gains visibility into dashboard names and organization, which is informational but not operationally damaging.
From the tool's definition Search for Grafana dashboards by a query string. Returns a list of matching dashboards...
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Search for Grafana dashboards by a query string. Returns a list of matching dashboards with details like title, UID, folder, tags, and URL. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Mcp Grafana MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Mcp Grafana MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_dashboards: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Mcp Grafana. Nothing to install.
search_dashboards is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the search_dashboards rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for search_dashboards. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
search_dashboards is provided by the Mcp Grafana MCP server (@leval/mcp-grafana). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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