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About Better Stack MCP

Better Stack hosted MCP connects assistants to monitoring, incidents, on-call, status pages, logs, traces, metrics, errors and team workflows.

What you can use it for

  • Query telemetry/logs and metrics, manage monitors and incidents, on-call and status pages.
  • Manage dashboards, charts, catalog data, webhooks and team integrations.
Connection and setup
Hosting
hosted
Transport
Streamable HTTP
Endpoint
https://mcp.betterstack.com
Authentication
OAuth recommended, or Bearer API token.

Requirements

  • Better Stack account and permissions for the intended monitoring resources.
  • MCP client supporting remote HTTP MCP.

Setup steps

  1. Add https://mcp.betterstack.com as a remote HTTP MCP server.
  2. Complete OAuth, or provide an API token only through the client’s secure secret mechanism.
  3. Use documented tool allow/deny controls if narrowing access, then inspect tools/list.
  4. Start with read-only monitoring queries; confirm before incident, on-call, status-page, or configuration changes.
Tools 5+

Five exact IDs appear in the official allow/block header examples. The docs list many additional tools by display label, but these are the only identifiers published in those examples.

  • monitors

    Better Stack tool identifier shown in the X-MCP-Tools-Only example.

    01
  • monitor

    Better Stack tool identifier shown in the X-MCP-Tools-Only example.

    02
  • incidents

    Better Stack tool identifier shown in the X-MCP-Tools-Only example.

    03
  • remove_dashboard

    Better Stack tool identifier shown in the X-MCP-Tools-Except example.

    04
  • remove_chart

    Better Stack tool identifier shown in the X-MCP-Tools-Except example.

    05

This server’s available tools can vary by account, permissions, or configuration. The list shown is not its full runtime catalog.

Limitations and notes
  • Write operations require full OAuth access or a read/write API token; read-only scopes are available by omitting write tools.
Original sources
  • official website favicon

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  • official documentation

    Official docs specify remote HTTP endpoint, OAuth or Bearer API token, tool allow/block headers, and exact identifiers in examples including monitors, monitor, incidents, remove_dashboard and remove_chart. The full tools surface is broad and may be permission/configuration scoped.

Documentation checked 2026-10-28T18:15:00.000Z. Connection has not been runtime tested.

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