Software monitoring firm Sentry is making it simpler to realize visibility into MCP servers with the launch of a brand new monitoring device.
With MCP monitoring, builders can perceive issues like which purchasers are experiencing errors, which instruments are most used, or which instruments are working sluggish. They will additionally correlate errors with occasions like visitors spikes or new launch deployments, or work out if errors are solely occurring on one sort of transport.
In line with Cody De Arkland, head of developer expertise at Sentry, when Sentry launched its personal MCP server, it was getting over 30 million requests per thirty days. He mentioned that at that scale, it’s inevitable that errors will happen, and current monitoring instruments had been combating MCP servers.
“We wanted to know issues like visitors load and AI shopper utilization, which instruments had been getting referred to as essentially the most, which had been sluggish or failing, and which inputs had been inflicting issues to interrupt. We wanted to know all of this with out counting on customers to inform us,” he mentioned.
This led them to construct this device for themselves, and now they’re releasing it for all as a result of anybody constructing on prime of MCP may run into the identical issues.
Sentry’s MCP monitoring is out there in beta immediately 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 following a number of months, together with Hint Propagation to hold ahead hint identifiers to downstream providers from the MCP server, help for Cloudflare’s McpAgent, and help for Python and different languages.
