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OWL MCP Server

Ask TrueWatch from the AI client you already use.

Ask about logs, metrics, traces and incidents in plain language. TrueWatch hosts the server, so there's nothing to install, and every answer stays within the permissions of your API key.

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Add this to .mcp.json in your project root.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "owl": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "your-owl-mcp-endpoint",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "${OWL_MCP_AUTHORIZATION}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace your-owl-mcp-endpoint with the endpoint for your workspace's site. Keep your API key in an environment variable, not in the config file.

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WORKS WITH YOUR AI CLIENTS

Connect any MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP.

If your client supports Streamable HTTP and custom auth headers, it can connect. It finds the right TrueWatch tool on its own.

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WHAT YOU CAN ASK

Your daily observability questions, in plain language.

Ask from any MCP client. It picks the right TrueWatch tool and runs it for you.

Query any data

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Find the right sources and fields, then query metrics, logs, RUM, APM, network and billing data.

Query external data sources

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> "What external data sources are connected to this workspace, and what can I query?"▍

See which external data sources your workspace connects to, then run read-only SQL against them.

Work an incident

> "Summarize incident 4821 and the events behind it."▍

Read incidents and related events, check comments and on-call schedules, and add a progress note.

Find a resource

> "Show me the details for host web-prod-03."▍

Look up hosts, containers and processes, then pull their details.

Follow a trace across workspaces

> "Find trace 7f3a… across our workspaces and show where it slowed down."▍

Find one trace across the workspaces in your organization and see where it slowed down.

Runbooks and monitors

> "Find the runbook for checkout-api and list its monitors."▍

Search, read and update notes and runbooks, and review, create or update monitors.

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QUICK START

Three steps to your first answer.

Create an API key in the TrueWatch console, add OWL to your client with the endpoint for your region, then ask your first question. If you get a list back, you're connected.

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"type": "http", "url": "▍", "Authorization": "${OWL_MCP_AUTHORIZATION}"

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Answered by OWL

Your workspace has these metric sources:cpu · mem · disk · net · kubelet · nginx …

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No. TrueWatch hosts the server. You add your region's endpoint and your API key to your AI client.

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Bring TrueWatch into your AI client.

Add one endpoint and your API key, then ask your first question. Every answer stays within the permissions of that key.

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Ask TrueWatch from the AI client you already use.

Connect any MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP.