How to connect with MCP in n8n
Connect n8n to your DashThis account with MCP so your workflows can answer questions using your dashboard data.
This guide shows you how to connect n8n to your DashThis account using the MCP Connector. Once connected, your workflows can ask about your dashboards and get answers from your live reporting data.
Before you start
- You need an n8n account. Both n8n Cloud and self-hosted n8n connect the same way.
- You sign in with your usual DashThis credentials during setup.
Connect n8n to DashThis
- Add an AI Agent node to your workflow, then attach an MCP Client Tool to it.
- Enter https://mcp.dashthis.com/mcp in the Endpoint field.
- Set Transport to HTTP Streamable.
- Choose MCP OAuth2 under Authentication, then create a new credential.
- Leave Use Dynamic Client Registration turned on. You do not need a client ID or a client secret.
- Enter the same address as step 2 in the Server URL field.
- Leave the Resource URL field empty. n8n finds it on its own.
- Click Connect my account, sign in to DashThis, and approve access.
Check that it worked
Run the node and ask it to list your dashboards. If you get your real dashboard names back, the connection is working. The connection also stays active on its own, so if n8n asks you to sign in again an hour later, something went wrong during setup.
What n8n can see
n8n can only read the dashboards on the DashThis account you connected, and the connection is read-only, so it cannot change anything in DashThis. For the full list of what the connector can and cannot do, see MCP notes and limitations.
The node returns "MCP access isn't enabled"
This message means the DashThis account you signed in with does not have MCP access turned on. It is not a problem with your n8n setup, so contact our Support Team and we will check your account.
If you get a connection error instead, check that your endpoint ends in /mcp and is not just the root address.
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