Observability - official Better Stack server
Better Stack MCP server
Hosted MCP server that connects AI assistants to Better Stack Incidents and Telemetry: on-call, incidents, uptime monitors, status pages, ClickHouse queries over logs, metrics, traces and errors, dashboards, and alerts. Better Stack hosts it at https://mcp.betterstack.com with OAuth or API key auth.
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Install
Claude Code
About Claude Codeclaude mcp add --transport http betterstack https://mcp.betterstack.comGeneric
{
"mcpServers": {
"betterstack": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.betterstack.com"
}
}
}Tools
Search documentation- Searches Better Stack documentation and returns relevant articles.
Get on-call details- Shows who is on-call for a calendar, now or at a given time.
Create incident- Reports a new issue with context and metadata.
List incidents- Finds incidents by date, status, monitor or other criteria.
Acknowledge incident- Takes ownership of an incident to stop escalations.
Resolve incident- Marks an incident as fixed.
List monitors- Shows all monitors with filtering options.
Create monitor- Creates a monitor for a website, host or service.
Get monitor availability- Calculates SLA summaries and uptime percentages.
Create status page report- Creates incident reports or maintenance announcements.
Execute query- Runs a ClickHouse SQL query against logs, spans, metrics, exceptions and replays.
Render chart- Runs a ClickHouse query and renders the result as a line, bar or pie chart.
Create dashboard- Creates a dashboard, optionally from a template or for a specific source.
Create chart alert- Creates a threshold, relative or anomaly alert on an existing chart.
List errors- Lists error patterns for an application with counts, affected users and state.
As documented on October 17, 2026. A running server reports its current list through tools/list.
Notes and caveats
- OAuth is recommended.
- Clients without OAuth can pass a Better Stack API token as Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN, or use the documented mcp-remote proxy config.
- The docs list tools by display name, not machine name.
- The X-MCP-Tools-Only and X-MCP-Tools-Except headers allowlist or blocklist tools.
- The docs page offers a Claude Code plugin (/plugin marketplace add BetterStackHQ/claude-plugin; /plugin install betterstack@betterstack) and a Cursor one-click deeplink.
- The claude mcp add command shown here comes from the official BetterStackHQ/claude-plugin README (MIT).
- The docs page carries a robots noindex tag.
- The docs do not call the server beta or GA.
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FAQ
What does the Better Stack MCP server do?
Hosted MCP server that connects AI assistants to Better Stack Incidents and Telemetry: on-call, incidents, uptime monitors, status pages, ClickHouse queries over logs, metrics, traces and errors, dashboards, and alerts. The vendor documents 15 tools, including Search documentation, Get on-call details, Create incident and List incidents.
How do I add the Better Stack MCP server to Claude Code?
Run claude mcp add --transport http betterstack https://mcp.betterstack.com, copied from Better Stack's docs. This page also has snippets for Generic.
Does the Better Stack MCP server need authentication?
Yes, OAuth or API key. Transport: Streamable HTTP. Status: Unlabelled, last checked October 17, 2026.
Sources
Last verified against 2 Better Stack pages, then re-checked independently.
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