Utility monitoring firm Sentry is making it simpler to achieve visibility into MCP servers with the launch of a brand new monitoring instrument.
With MCP monitoring, builders can perceive issues like which purchasers are experiencing errors, which instruments are most used, or which instruments are operating gradual. They’ll additionally correlate errors with occasions like visitors spikes or new launch deployments, or work out if errors are solely taking place on one kind of transport.
In accordance with Cody De Arkland, head of developer expertise at Sentry, when Sentry launched its personal MCP server, it was getting over 30 million requests monthly. He stated that at that scale, it’s inevitable that errors will happen, and current monitoring instruments have been battling MCP servers.
“We wanted to know issues like visitors load and AI consumer utilization, which instruments have been getting referred to as essentially the most, which have been gradual or failing, and which inputs have been inflicting issues to interrupt. We wanted to know all of this with out counting on customers to inform us,” he stated.
This led them to construct this instrument for themselves, and now they’re releasing it for all as a result of anybody constructing on prime of MCP might run into the identical issues.
Sentry’s MCP monitoring is on the market in beta at present for purchasers utilizing Sentry’s JavaScript SDK, and solely requires one line of code to arrange.
The corporate plans to proceed so as to add monitoring performance over the subsequent a number of months, together with Hint Propagation to hold ahead hint identifiers to downstream companies from the MCP server, help for Cloudflare’s McpAgent, and help for Python and different languages.
