Search for dashboards by title, tags, or other metadata
AI agents call search_dashboards to retrieve information from Grafana 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 Read operation—it queries and retrieves dashboard information without side effects. Severity is medium rather than low because dashboards may contain sensitive metadata about infrastructure, monitoring configurations, or business metrics that could inform further attacks if an agent performs reconnaissance.
From the tool's definition Tool 'search_dashboards' retrieves dashboard metadata by title, tags, or other attributes. Description indicates querying/searching functionality with no mention of modifications or deletions.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Search for dashboards by title, tags, or other metadata. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Grafana MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Grafana MCP Server 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 Grafana MCP Server. 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 Grafana MCP Server MCP server (quanticsoul4772/grafana-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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