Use the Monitor page to track health, performance, and usage of MCP servers. The use cases you monitor might vary depending on your role.
Administrators
Administrators can use the Monitor page for the following use cases:
Monitor health and reliability
- Detect an outage or degradation. Increased error rates can signal an MCP server that stopped working correctly.
- Troubleshoot a failing or slow tool. An error rate that's high for one tool or request type, but normal for others can signal a tool or request that's causing errors. High durations can signal tools that slow down AI agent responses.
- Validate a release. After an update to your MCP server, higher error rates or longer durations can signal a change that negatively impacted the server.
Understand usage and adoption
- Measure adoption. Trends in clients and invocations help you see how many applications use a server
- Identify unused servers. Servers with no invocations or connected clients over an extended period of time might suggest servers that are no longer needed.
- Understand client behavior. Many initializations and tool requests with few tool calls can signal that a client is connecting to a server, but not using its tools.
Plan capacity and detect unusual activity
- Detect unusual traffic. A sudden rise in invocations might suggest a client that was configured incorrectly.
Non-administrators
Non-administrators can use the Monitor page for the following use cases:
Verify whether a server is working
- Verify a server before deployment. An active server with low error rates can signal an MCP server that's available before you rely on it in an agent or workflow.
- Find out why an AI agent isn't working. An increase in errors, inactive servers, or long durations can signal a failed or incomplete agent response caused by an MCP server.
Understand responsiveness
- Understand why responses are slow. Higher than usual durations can signal slow agent responses that are caused by an MCP server.
- Choose between servers. Pick more reliable or faster servers when more than one offer similar tools.
Verify setup
- Confirm client connection. Verify that your application or agent connected to the server by verifying the connected clients.
- Confirm calls to specific tools. Verify that your agent calls the server's tools by verifying the invocations.
- Verify MCP server stability. Confirm that a new or updated MCP server works correctly by verfying the error rate, invocations, or P99 duration.