Dash0 MCP Server

Navigate your OpenTelemetry resources, investigate incidents and query metrics, logs and traces on Dash0.

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What is the Dash0 MCP server?

If you want an AI assistant working directly with Dash0, the dash0 mcp server is the bridge. Navigate your OpenTelemetry resources, investigate incidents and query metrics, logs and traces on Dash0.

What Dash0 does

The official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Dash0.

Installing the dash0 mcp server

Setup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

Configuration

Before the server will start you need to supply one environment variable: DASH0_AUTH_TOKEN. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than committing them.

Where it fits

Monitoring servers replace the paste-the-stack-trace ritual with an assistant that reads the real event, with all its surrounding context intact. Dash0 sits in that group. Worth comparing against the other monitoring security servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

  • This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
  • It will not start until its required credentials are present, so set those before wondering why the tools never appear.
  • MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the dash0 mcp server actually does with your data.
  • Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.

How to install the Dash0 MCP server

{
     "mcpServers": {
       "dash0": {
         "type": "streamableHttp",
         "url": "{{endpoint_mcp}}",
         "headers": {
           "Authorization": "Bearer {{token}}"
         }
       }
     }
   }

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
DASH0_AUTH_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Frequently asked questions

It connects Dash0 to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Dash0 directly.