googleapis--mcp-toolbox/docs/en/integrations/knowledge-catalog/tools/knowledge-catalog-get-data-profile.md

title, type, weight, description, aliases

title	type	weight	description	aliases
dataplex-get-data-profile	docs	1	Retrieves the final generated data profile results (overall row counts, column-level statistics, quartiles, and frequent values) for a completed profiling scan.	/integrations/dataplex/tools/dataplex-get-data-profile/

About

A dataplex-get-data-profile tool retrieves the results of a completed Data Profile scan.

WARNING: You must verify the execution run has succeeded (via dataplex-get-run-status) before calling this tool, otherwise the results will be empty. CRITICAL: Access the results via the nested public fields dataProfileResult.profile.fields inside the returned DataScan.

Compatible Sources

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Requirements

IAM Permissions

Knowledge Catalog uses Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control user and group access to Knowledge Catalog resources. Toolbox will use your Application Default Credentials (ADC) to authorize and authenticate when interacting with [Knowledge Catalog][dataplex-docs].

In addition to setting the ADC for your server, you need to ensure the IAM identity has been given the correct IAM permissions for the tasks you intend to perform. See Knowledge Catalog IAM permissions and Knowledge Catalog IAM roles for more information on applying IAM permissions and roles to an identity.

Parameters

The dataplex-get-data-profile tool accepts the following parameters:

field	type	required	description
scanId	string	true	The unique ID of the Dataplex profile scan (e.g. nq-prof-12345).
location	string	true	The Google Cloud region where the scan was created (e.g. us-central1).

Example

kind: tool
name: get_data_profile
type: dataplex-get-data-profile
source: my-dataplex-source
description: Fetch results of a completed data profile scan.

Reference

field	type	required	description
type	string	true	Must be "dataplex-get-data-profile".
source	string	true	Name of the source the tool should execute on.
description	string	true	Description of the tool that is passed to the LLM.