Connect Rubrik to ChatGPT via MCP: Backup Health

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Rubrik Security Cloud + ChatGPT

Let your AI check your Rubrik backups: cluster health and capacity, SLA Domains, protected objects and SLA compliance, snapshots, failed jobs and task reports, anomaly detection and threat hunt results. Read-only GraphQL with a service account.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

RUBRIK_ACCOUNT, RUBRIK_CLIENT_ID, RUBRIK_CLIENT_SECRET

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setting up takes about 5 minutes. You need a Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) account and access to Settings, Users and Access in RSC to add a service account.

1. In RSC open Settings, Users and Access, Service Accounts and add a service account. Give it a role that can view what the AI should see: a read-only custom role with view permissions on clusters, SLA Domains, objects, events and threat analytics is enough.
2. Download the service account JSON. It holds client_id (starts with client|), client_secret and access_token_uri (https://<account>.my.rubrik.com/api/client_token).
3. Set RUBRIK_ACCOUNT to your account name: the part before .my.rubrik.com in your RSC address and in access_token_uri, in lower case and without https://, for example acme for acme.my.rubrik.com.
4. Copy client_id into RUBRIK_CLIENT_ID and client_secret into RUBRIK_CLIENT_SECRET.
5. Install the connector and run rubrik_get_account to check the connection: it returns the account id and the RSC deployment version.

Cloud and self-hosted work the same way: the connector calls your account's GraphQL API at https://<account>.my.rubrik.com/api/graphql with the same service account; there is no redirect URL to register.

Tokens renew themselves: the connector exchanges the client id and secret at https://<account>.my.rubrik.com/api/client_token (client credentials grant) for an access token and sends it as Authorization: Bearer. The token lasts 12 hours by default (up to 24 hours in the RSC session settings) and is renewed before it expires and after a 401.

Keep the secret safe: RSC shows client_secret only once. If it is lost, create a new service account and paste its values.

The role decides what the AI sees: the AI sees only what the service account's role can view. A missing view permission shows up as a 403.

Ids, times and paging: clusters are UUIDs. A protected object has an id, which rubrik_list_snapshots takes, and an fid, which the event and anomaly filters take. Times are ISO 8601 in UTC. Lists take first (default 25, at most 200) and after: call again with after set to pageInfo.endCursor while pageInfo.hasNextPage is true; count is the total.

Generic GraphQL tools: rubrik_graphql_schema_url returns the address of the schema, rubrik_graphql_schema reads a slice of the public RSC schema that Rubrik publishes in its PowerShell SDK repository, and rubrik_graphql_query runs any other read query. The published schema can be a few days newer or older than your account's deployment (rubrik_get_account shows its version).

Common errors: a 400 on the token request means RUBRIK_CLIENT_ID is not the client_id from the JSON (it starts with client|) or the secret belongs to another service account. A 401 means RSC refused the service account: copy both values again, or create a new service account if the secret was lost or rotated. A 403 means the service account signed in but its role cannot read that data. No answer at all means RUBRIK_ACCOUNT is wrong: take the name from your RSC address or from access_token_uri.

What it reads: the account id and deployment version; clusters with connection state, health, version, capacity in bytes, estimated runway and end-of-support date; SLA Domains with their snapshot schedule, retention, retention lock and number of protected objects; protected objects (VMs, databases, filesets, cloud and SaaS objects) with protection and SLA compliance status, last snapshot, missed snapshots and size; compliance counts by status, object type, cluster or SLA Domain; the snapshots of an object with expiration date and anomaly, quarantine and retention lock flags; activity (backups, archival, replication, recoveries) with status, error cause and remedy, and the timeline of one series; the Task Details report with durations and bytes transferred; anomaly detection results per snapshot with the files created, modified, deleted and flagged as suspicious; threat hunts and their results per object, with the latest clean snapshot.

Switched off at install: rubrik_graphql_mutation and rubrik_graphql_subscription. They run any GraphQL mutation or subscription; a mutation can start backups and recoveries or delete data, so turn it on only on purpose. Switch on only the ones you need on the connector page; the AI asks you to confirm every change first. Every other tool is read-only.

Limits: the read tools take no backups, run no recoveries, assign no SLA Domains and quarantine nothing; there is no file-level search inside snapshots, and the REST APIs of Rubrik CDM clusters are not covered.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in ChatGPT

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

ChatGPT adds MCP servers as plugins on its Plugins page, on the web and on paid plans. Developer mode is no longer needed. In a Business workspace only admins and owners can add one; in Enterprise and Edu an admin can grant the Create plugins with MCPs permission.

1. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click Add, then Add custom MCP server.
2. Enter a name, e.g. Name: Rubrik Security Cloud.
3. Under Connection, enter the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID and keep Authentication on OAuth.
4. Select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin. When ChatGPT asks, sign in to AnythingMCP and allow access.
5. Install the new plugin from your personal plugins, then type @ in a chat and pick it.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "Are all my Rubrik clusters connected and healthy, and how much capacity and runway does each one have left?"
• "How many objects are out of SLA compliance, and which ones are they?"
• "Which backup jobs failed in the last 24 hours, and what was the cause of each failure?"
• "Which recovery points does the VM sql-prod-01 have from the last 7 days?"
• "Did anomaly detection flag any snapshots this week, and which threat hunts found matches?"

FAQ

Does the free ChatGPT plan work with custom MCP servers? OpenAI documents custom MCP servers for paid plans only; the Free plan is not on its list.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude