OpenSearch Dashboards MCP Server

An MCP server for OpenSearch Dashboards that enables AI assistants to create, manage, and inspect dashboards, visualizations, saved objects, and plugin features.

This is a companion to opensearch-mcp-server-py, which covers the OpenSearch cluster/data plane. This project covers the Dashboards UI/management plane.

Features

• Saved Objects CRUD (dashboards, visualizations, index patterns, saved searches)
• Dashboard and Visualization management
• Auto-detection of installed plugins (alerting, anomaly detection, etc.)
• Category-based tool filtering
• Support for stdio and streaming (SSE) transports
• Basic auth, API token, and cookie/session authentication

Installation

pip install opensearch-dashboards-mcp-server

Quick Start

# Using environment variables
export OSD_URL=https://localhost:5601
export OSD_USERNAME=admin
export OSD_PASSWORD=admin
opensearch-dashboards-mcp-server

# Using config file
opensearch-dashboards-mcp-server --config example_config.yml

Claude Desktop Integration

Add to your Claude Desktop config (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opensearch-dashboards": {
      "command": "opensearch-dashboards-mcp-server",
      "env": {
        "OSD_URL": "https://localhost:5601",
        "OSD_USERNAME": "admin",
        "OSD_PASSWORD": "admin"
      }
    }
  }
}

Tool Categories

Category	Tools	Default
core_tools	Saved Objects, Dashboards, Visualizations, Index Patterns, Short URLs	Enabled
alerting	Monitors, Alerts	Auto-detected
anomaly_detection	Detectors, Results	Auto-detected
observability	Notebooks	Auto-detected
index_management	ISM Policies	Auto-detected
security	Tenants, Roles, Role Mappings	Auto-detected
workspaces	Workspace CRUD	Auto-detected
sample_data	Sample dataset install/uninstall	Auto-detected
data_importer	File/text import, preview	Auto-detected

Enable/disable categories via env vars:

export OSD_ENABLED_CATEGORIES=core_tools,alerting,anomaly_detection
export OSD_DISABLED_CATEGORIES=security

Local Development

# OpenSearch 2.19.0 (default)
docker compose up -d

# OpenSearch 3.5.0
OPENSEARCH_VERSION=3.5.0 docker compose up -d

# Verify
curl http://localhost:9200   # OpenSearch
curl http://localhost:5601   # Dashboards

Supported Versions

• OpenSearch / Dashboards 2.x (tested with 2.19.0)
• OpenSearch / Dashboards 3.x (tested with 3.5.0)

License

Apache-2.0