📊 [SAFE] Get a dashboard by ID including all its cards, layout, and parameters. Use this to understand dashboard structure or see all questions in a dashboard at once. Risk: None - read-only operation.
AI agents call get_dashboard to retrieve information from Metabase MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a data retrieval operation with no side effects. It queries and returns dashboard information without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. The description explicitly confirms read-only safety, making it a Read category tool with low severity risk.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'get_dashboard' and description explicitly states '[SAFE]' and 'read-only operation'. Retrieves dashboard structure, cards, layout, and parameters without modifying data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
📊 [SAFE] Get a dashboard by ID including all its cards, layout, and parameters. Use this to understand dashboard structure or see all questions in a dashboard at once. Risk: None - read-only operation. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Metabase MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Metabase MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_dashboard: 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 Metabase MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_dashboard 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 get_dashboard 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 get_dashboard. 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.
get_dashboard is provided by the Metabase MCP Server MCP server (mikela92/metabase-mcp-mab). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Every MCP server has a record like this.
Type a name, get the same breakdown: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, capabilities, recommended policy.
Teams ship this data inside their own products. See what a licence covers →