Redash Server

MCP server for the Redash API. Exposes Redash's core data operations as tools for the Model Context Protocol.

Setup

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Set your Redash API key and URL
export REDASH_API_KEY=your_api_key
export REDASH_URL=https://redash.example.com

# Run the server
uv run python -m redash_mcp

By default the server uses the stdio transport for local MCP clients such as Claude Desktop.

Hosted MCP

The server can be deployed as a remote MCP endpoint over Streamable HTTP:

uv run python -m redash_mcp --transport streamable-http

Send your Redash API key in the request header:

Authorization: Key your_api_key

Configuration (Hosted / Streamable HTTP)

If your MCP client supports remote servers over HTTP, the JSON config should include the hosted URL and the Authorization header.

Example:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "redash": {
      "url": "https://your-mcp-host.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Key your_api_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Notes:

• Replace your_api_key with your real Redash API key.
• The header must be exactly Authorization.
• The value must include the Key prefix.

Claude Code (CLI)

claude mcp add --transport http redash https://your-mcp-host.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Key your_api_key"

Replace your_api_key with your real Redash API key.

Configuration (Claude Desktop / stdio)

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "redash": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["--directory", "/absolute/path/to/redash-mcp-server", "run", "python", "-m", "redash_mcp"],
      "env": {
        "REDASH_API_KEY": "your_api_key",
        "REDASH_URL": "https://redash.example.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

Resource	Tools
Queries	list_queries, get_query, create_query, update_query, search_queries, get_recent_queries, archive_query, refresh_query
Dashboards	list_dashboards, get_dashboard, create_dashboard, update_dashboard
Data Sources	list_data_sources, get_data_source, get_data_source_schema, check_data_source_connection
Query Results	get_query_result, execute_query
Users	list_users, get_user
Alerts	list_alerts, get_alert, create_alert
Visualizations	list_query_visualizations

Environment Variables

Variable	Description	Default
REDASH_API_KEY	Redash API key (required for stdio transport)	—
REDASH_URL	Base URL of your Redash instance	http://localhost:5000
REDASH_MCP_TRANSPORT	Transport type (stdio or streamable-http)	stdio
REDASH_MCP_HOST	Host to bind HTTP server	127.0.0.1
REDASH_MCP_PORT	Port for HTTP server	8000
REDASH_MCP_STREAMABLE_HTTP_PATH	HTTP path for MCP endpoint	/mcp

Docker

# Build the image
docker build -t redash-mcp .

docker run -i --rm \
  -e REDASH_API_KEY=your_api_key \
  -e REDASH_URL=https://redash.example.com \
  redash-mcp

Configuration (Claude Desktop with Docker / stdio)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "redash": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "REDASH_API_KEY", "-e", "REDASH_URL", "redash-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "REDASH_API_KEY": "your_api_key",
        "REDASH_URL": "https://redash.example.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Development

# Install with dev dependencies
uv sync --extra dev

# Run tests
uv run pytest tests/ -v