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AI · November 18, 2025

MCP Server for OpenTelemetry

Hey HN, Gal, Nir and Doron here. Over the past 2 years, we've helped teams debug everything from prompt issues to production outages. We kept running into the same problem: Jumping between our IDEs and our observability dashboards. So, we built an open-source MCP server that connects any OpenTelemetry backend (Grafana, Jaeger, Datadog, Dynatrace, Traceloop) to our dev environment using an MCP. While there are many MCP servers built for specific providers (like Datadog’s - https://docs.datadoghq.com/bits_ai/mcp_server), they’re closed source (so we can’t easily extend…

MCP Server for OpenTelemetry launched on November 18, 2025 with 13 votes, #805 of 9,796 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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In plain words

MCP Server for OpenTelemetry is an open-source tool that integrates observability backends like Grafana, Jaeger, Datadog, Dynatrace, and Traceloop directly into developer environments. It eliminates the need to switch between code editors and separate monitoring dashboards, allowing developers to access telemetry data without leaving their IDE. Built to support multiple platforms simultaneously, it addresses the limitations of closed-source, provider-specific alternatives that lock teams into single tools.

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From the sources

Unified MCP server for querying OpenTelemetry traces across multiple backends (Jaeger, Tempo, Traceloop, etc.), enabling AI agents to analyze distributed traces for automated debugging and observability. - traceloop/opentelemetry-mcp-server

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, Gal, Nir and Doron here. Over the past 2 years, we've helped teams debug everything from prompt issues to production outages. We kept running into the same problem: Jumping between our IDEs and our observability dashboards. So, we built an open-source MCP server that connects any OpenTelemetry backend…

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