opentelemetry-mcp-server
Provides an OpenTelemetry Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes tools for configuring an OpenTelemetry Collector. It validates collector configuration using a collectorschema module and returns strict JSON schemas for collector components.
Score Breakdown
⚙ Agent Friendliness
🔒 Security
TLS/auth are not documented in the provided README; the server is started over HTTP in examples. Configuration tool output and validation may help reduce malformed configs, but there is insufficient information about auth, authorization scopes, transport security, logging, and dependency vulnerability posture.
⚡ Reliability
Best When
You want an agent workflow to programmatically generate/validate OTEL Collector configuration using schema-driven tool calls.
Avoid When
You need first-class authentication/authorization, published rate-limit guarantees, or strong operational guarantees (SLA, versioning policy) from the documentation provided.
Use Cases
- • Have an LLM help generate and validate OpenTelemetry Collector configuration safely
- • Validate collector component configuration (receivers/processors/exporters/extensions) against schemas
- • Guide OpenTelemetry Collector configuration changes via tool calls rather than free-form YAML editing
Not For
- • A production data ingestion endpoint for OTLP telemetry
- • Replacing OpenTelemetry Collector itself or acting as a collector extension/connector that processes telemetry data
- • A general-purpose MCP server unrelated to OpenTelemetry Collector configuration
Interface
Authentication
README examples show adding MCP transport=http otel http://localhost:8080/mcp with --scope user but do not document any server-side authentication mechanism.
Pricing
Open-source project; no pricing details provided.
Agent Metadata
Known Gotchas
- ⚠ No documented error contract/JSON-RPC error schema in provided README excerpt; agent may need to handle generic failures
- ⚠ No documented rate-limits or backoff guidance
- ⚠ Auth is not described; deployments may need to add network-level controls themselves
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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-30.