MCP Inspector

The MCP Inspector is a helpful tool to confirm your configuration is correct and to explore Tableau MCP capabilities.

• Non-Docker users using stdio transport should create a config.json file in the root of the project using config.stdio.json as a template.
• Non-Docker users using http transport should create a .env file in the root of the project using env.example.list as a template.
• Docker users should create an env.list file using env.example.list as a template.

After building the project and setting the environment variables, you can start the MCP Inspector using one of the following commands:

Command	Transport	Description
npm run inspect	stdio	Start the MCP Inspector which runs the server locally using Node.js.
npm run inspect:docker	stdio	Start the MCP Inspector which runs the server within a Docker container using Node.js.
npm run inspect:http	http	Start the MCP Inspector which runs the server locally using Express.
npm run inspect:docker:http	http	Start the MCP Inspector which runs the server within a Docker container using Express.