Kibana Dashboard Builder — MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives the Elastic Dashboard Architect AI agent the ability to create Kibana dashboards, Lens visualizations, and data views via the Kibana Saved Objects API.

Tools Exposed

Tool	Description
`list_data_views`	List existing Kibana data views
`create_data_view`	Create a new data view for an index
`list_dashboards`	List existing dashboards
`get_dashboard`	Get a dashboard's full definition
`create_lens_visualization`	Create a Lens visualization (bar, line, metric, donut, etc.)
`create_dashboard`	Assemble visualizations into a dashboard

Deploy to Render.com (Free — 5 minutes)

Push this repo to GitHub

cd /path/to/kibana-mcp-server
git init && git add . && git commit -m "Initial commit"
gh repo create kibana-mcp-server --public --push

Go to render.com → New → Web Service
- Connect your GitHub repo
- Render auto-detects render.yaml

Set Environment Variables in Render dashboard:

KIBANA_ENDPOINT        = https://your-cluster.kb.us-east-2.aws.elastic-cloud.com
ELASTIC_API_KEY        = your-base64-api-key
ELASTIC_CLOUD_ENDPOINT = https://your-cluster.es.us-east-2.aws.elastic-cloud.com

Copy your Render URL (e.g. https://kibana-mcp-server.onrender.com)

Update the Kibana MCP connector to point to your Render URL:

curl -X PUT "https://your-cluster.kb.../api/actions/connector/YOUR_CONNECTOR_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "kbn-xsrf: true" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "elastic-api-version: 2023-10-31" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Kibana Dashboard Builder",
    "config": {"serverUrl": "https://kibana-mcp-server.onrender.com", "headers": {"Content-Type": "application/json"}},
    "secrets": {}
  }'

Done. The Dashboard Architect agent now has a permanent, always-available backend.

Local Development

pip install -r requirements.txt
KIBANA_ENDPOINT=https://... ELASTIC_API_KEY=... python main.py

Architecture

Dashboard Architect (Kibana AI Agent)
  ↓  calls tools via
Kibana .mcp connector
  ↓  HTTP POST to
THIS SERVER (Render.com — permanent HTTPS URL)
  ↓  calls Kibana Saved Objects API
Kibana → creates dashboard, lens viz, data views

Also compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code via:

https://your-cluster.kb.../api/agent_builder/mcp

Kibana Dashboard Builder

Kibana Dashboard Builder — MCP Server

Tools Exposed

Deploy to Render.com (Free — 5 minutes)

Local Development

Architecture

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