Tableau MCP

Install

Works in

• Claude Desktop
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• SourceCraft
• Koda
• Coddy

Manual install

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tableau": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@tableau/mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "SERVER": "https://my-tableau-server.com",
        "SITE_NAME": "my_site",
        "PAT_NAME": "my_pat",
        "PAT_VALUE": "pat_value"
      }
    }
  }
}

What it does

Tableau MCP connects an agent to your Tableau Cloud or Tableau Server site. The agent finds workbooks, views and data sources, reads field metadata and sends queries to the data without leaving the chat. For example, it can name the top five states by sales in the Superstore data source, find the most viewed workbook of the year or show the Economy view from the Finances project. For questions about data the server offers data source search and listing, metadata reading and a datasource query. For Pulse metrics it builds short insight briefs and lists definitions, values and subscriptions. For administrators it runs flows, lists jobs, edits extract refresh schedules and queries Admin Insights. Separate tools publish a data source, delete content and scaffold a data app. There are two ways to run it. For Tableau Cloud, Tableau hosts a managed service at https://mcp.tableau.com: each user signs in with OAuth 2.1 under their own account, and their Tableau permissions apply as usual. Locally or on your own server it runs through npx, Docker or from source and signs in to Tableau with a personal access token (PAT).

Who it is for. For Tableau analysts and administrators who want to query published data and manage site content through an agent.

Example request

In the Superstore data source, find the five states with the biggest sales in 2025 and show how far the first leads the second

MCP

Transport

stdio, http

Authentication

API key

Limitations

Local setup needs Node.js 22.7.5 or later and a Tableau personal access token. The token is stored in the client's environment variables, so issue a separate narrow-scoped token just for the agent.

The managed service covers Tableau Cloud only. Tableau Server owners and anyone who needs their own infrastructure have to self-host the server using the deployment guides in the documentation. The Docker image has to be rebuilt after every repository update.

Tableau itself supports the project, as the Tableau Supported badge shows. Whether Tableau Cloud is reachable from Russia has not been checked.

How to disable. Remove the tableau block from mcpServers in your client settings and restart it. Revoke the PAT you issued for the agent in your Tableau account settings.

README in short

Getting Started opens with the managed service for Tableau Cloud and a sample npx config. Below are a Heroku deploy button and the server's answers to three typical questions.