Fivetran MCP Server

Fivetran MCP server is a hosted integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. MCP server for Fivetran API - manage syncs, check status, and control data pipelines.

What you get

1. Log in to Fivetran Dashboard 2. Click your username (top right corner) 3. Click API Key 4. Click Generate API key 5. Copy both the API Key and API Secret (secret shown only once!)

• List connections — - View all Fivetran connections with status
• Check sync status — - Get detailed status for any connection including tasks and warnings
• Trigger syncs — - Start syncs on demand
• Historical resync — - Trigger full data resync or resync specific tables
• Pause/Resume — - Control connection scheduling
• List groups — - View all destination groups

Setting it up

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Configuration and credentials

You will need 4 environment variables: FIVETRAN_API_KEY, FIVETRAN_API_SECRET, FIVETRAN_SYNC_API_KEY, FIVETRAN_SYNC_API_SECRET. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

Choosing this one

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. It is maintained by YimingYAN; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Before you rely on it

• Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
• Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
• MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the fivetran mcp server does with a few real requests.