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 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 present monitoring instruments have been scuffling with MCP servers.
“We wanted to know issues like visitors load and AI shopper utilization, which instruments have been getting referred to as essentially the most, which have been sluggish 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 device for themselves, and now they’re releasing it for all as a result of anybody constructing on high of MCP may run into the identical issues.
Sentry’s MCP monitoring is offered in beta right now for patrons 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 providers from the MCP server, help for Cloudflare’s McpAgent, and help for Python and different languages.
