How do I use JetBackup's Get Dashboard ability with AI?

Install the Easy MCP AI WordPress plugin alongside JetBackup, connect your AI client, then ask in natural language — for example: "Give me a quick JetBackup dashboard summary — how much is backed up and what's in the queue right now?"

Get Dashboard is a WordPress ability from JetBackup — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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Get Dashboard

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JetBackup Backup & Site Management jetbackup/get-dashboard

Get the dashboard summary.

Requires the JetBackup plugin on WordPress 6.9+ for the Abilities API (abilities are registered only when the wp_register_ability() function exists), and JetBackup's own 'Abilities API' toggle must be turned on under Settings > Security. Every ability is additionally gated by JetBackup's permission callback: the caller must be logged in and hold the WordPress 'manage_options' capability (and be a network admin on multisite), and if JetBackup's MFA is enabled and abilities aren't explicitly allowed to bypass it, the caller must also have passed MFA validation.

What it does

This ability returns the same summary statistics JetBackup shows on its Dashboard screen: total alert count, total snapshot count and total snapshot size (human-readable), total system alert count, and queue counts broken down by pending, processing, completed and aborted items. It takes no input. This gives an AI assistant a one-call health snapshot of backup activity on the site, useful as a quick status check before drilling into individual backups, jobs or queue items.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Give me a quick JetBackup dashboard summary — how much is backed up and what's in the queue right now?"

Returns

An object with a 'statistics' field containing alerts (total alert count), snapshots (total snapshot count), snapshots_size (human-readable total size), system_alerts (total system alert count), total_queue_pending, total_queue_processing, total_queue_completed, total_queue_aborted, and queue (active/processing count).

Permission

The current user must be logged in and hold the WordPress 'manage_options' capability (network admin on multisite), with JetBackup's Abilities API setting enabled.