OTC Pricing MCP Server

An open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) Price Calculator API.

Expose OTC pricing data to Claude and other LLM clients with full observability (structured logging, Prometheus metrics, health checks).

Status: v0.1.3 — STDIO + SSE transports, Kubernetes deployment, full observability

What is MCP?

Model Context Protocol is a standard that enables LLM applications (like Claude) to interact with external tools and data sources. This server supports two transports:

This server gives Claude access to OTC pricing data and the user-manual / API-reference documentation through 9 specialized tools, on whichever transport you prefer.

What Can You Do With This?

Example Use Cases:

• Ask Claude: "Find the cheapest ECS instance with 4 CPUs and 8GB RAM in eu-de"
• Claude calls find_compute_flavor tool → gets pricing data → answers you
• Ask: "Compare PAYG vs 12-month reserved pricing for S3 storage"
• Claude calls compare_billing_models tool → does the analysis → shows savings

Quick Start

1. Install

Requirements: Python 3.12+

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/seaser0/otc-pricing-mcp.git
cd otc-pricing-mcp

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run the server
python -m otc_pricing_mcp

What You'll See:

{"event": "mcp_server_starting", "transports": ["stdio", "sse"], "port": 8080, ...}
{"event": "mcp_server_ready", "status": "accepting_connections", ...}

The server now listens for MCP connections on both stdin/stdout and http://localhost:8080/sse.

2. Connect Your MCP Client

Option A — STDIO (local, Claude Desktop)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "otc-pricing": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "otc_pricing_mcp"],
      "env": {
        "LOG_LEVEL": "INFO",
        "METRICS_PORT": "8080"
      }
    }
  }
}

Option B — SSE (remote, Kubernetes)

Point any MCP client that supports SSE transport at the hosted endpoint:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "otc-pricing": {
      "url": "https://mcp-otc-pricing.example.com/sse"
    }
  }
}

Or test locally while running the server:

# In a second terminal:
curl -N http://localhost:8080/sse
# event: endpoint
# data: /messages/?session_id=<uuid>

3. Start Using Tools

Once connected, Claude can call any of the 7 available tools. See the Tools Reference section below.

Tools Reference

The server exposes 7 MCP tools for different pricing queries:

1. list_services

Purpose: Get all available OTC services

Input: None

Output: List of service names and metadata

Example Claude usage:

"What OTC services are available for pricing?"

2. list_regions

Purpose: Get available OTC regions

Input: None

Output: List of region codes (eu-de, eu-nl, eu-ch2, etc.)

Example Claude usage:

"What regions does OTC support?"

3. get_service_schema

Purpose: Get filterable/returnable columns for a service

Input:

• service (string): Service name (e.g., "ecs", "evs", "obs", "s3", "rds")

Output: Schema with filterable and returnable column names

Example Claude usage:

"What columns can I filter on for ECS pricing?"

4. query_pricing

Purpose: Query pricing data with flexible filtering

Input:

• services (array): List of service names (e.g., ["ecs", "evs"])
• region (string, optional): Filter by region (e.g., "eu-de")
• max_results (integer, optional): Max results to return (default: 5000)

Output: Pricing rows matching the filter

Example Claude usage:

"Show me ECS and EVS pricing in the eu-de region"

5. find_compute_flavor

Purpose: Find compute (ECS) instances by vCPU/RAM/OS

Input:

• v_cpu (integer): Number of virtual CPUs
• ram_gb (number): RAM in GiB
• os (string, optional): Operating system (Linux, Windows, etc.)
• region (string, optional): Region (default: eu-de)

Output: Matching ECS instance types with pricing

Example Claude usage:

"Find a Linux ECS instance with 4 CPUs and 16GB RAM in eu-nl"

6. estimate_monthly_cost

Purpose: Calculate monthly cost for multiple resources

Input:

• items (array): Resources with:
  • id (string): Product ID (e.g., "OTC_S3M1_LI")
  • quantity (number, optional): How many units (default: 1)
  • hours_per_month (number, optional): Usage hours (default: 730)

Output: Itemized costs with monthly total

Example Claude usage:

"Calculate monthly cost for 100GB S3 storage and an ECS instance"

7. compare_billing_models

Purpose: Compare PAYG vs Reserved Instance pricing

Input:

• product_id (string): Product ID (e.g., "OTC_S3M1_LI")
• quantity (number, optional): Quantity (default: 1)
• hours_per_month (number, optional): Usage hours (default: 730)

Output: Cost comparison for PAYG, 12mo, 24mo, 36mo reserved

Example Claude usage:

"Compare PAYG vs 12/24/36 month reserved pricing for ECS"

8. search_otc_docs

Purpose: Full-text search across the indexed OTC user manual and API reference

Input:

• query (string): Search terms (BM25-ranked, AND of tokens)
• scope (string, optional): public | swiss | both (default: both)
• service (string, optional): Restrict to one service repo (e.g. elastic-cloud-server)
• top_k (integer, optional): 1-50, default 5

Output: Ranked list of {url, title, h2, h3, snippet, service, cloud, upstream_commit} hits. The index ships with the package and is rebuilt weekly from the upstream opentelekomcloud-docs/<service> Sphinx/RST repos (Apache-2.0); the runtime never touches the Anubis-gated docs.otc.t-systems.com HTML.

Example Claude usage:

"Find the OTC docs page that explains S3-flavor ECS specifications"

9. get_otc_doc_section

Purpose: Fetch the body of one indexed documentation page (or one of its sections) as Markdown

Input:

• url (string): Canonical URL as returned by search_otc_docs (with or without #anchor)
• section (string, optional): H2/H3 heading filter (case-insensitive substring)

Output: {url, title, sections: [{h2, h3, anchor, body}, ...], matched, ...}

Example Claude usage:

"Show me the EVS Disk Types and Performance section"

Configuration

Environment Variables

Control the server behavior with environment variables:

Example:

LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG METRICS_PORT=9090 python -m otc_pricing_mcp

Observability: Metrics & Logs

This server is built with production-grade observability so you can debug issues and monitor performance.

Structured Logging (JSON)

Every action is logged as JSON, making logs machine-readable for aggregation and analysis.

Start the server with DEBUG logging:

LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG python -m otc_pricing_mcp 2>&1

You'll see JSON logs like:

{"timestamp": "2026-05-06T18:00:00.123456Z", "event": "tool_invocation_start", "tool": "query_pricing", "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000", "arguments": {"services": ["ecs"]}}

{"timestamp": "2026-05-06T18:00:00.234567Z", "event": "upstream_request_start", "service": "ecs", "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000"}

{"timestamp": "2026-05-06T18:00:00.345678Z", "event": "upstream_request_success", "service": "ecs", "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000", "status_code": 200, "duration_seconds": 0.111, "attempt": 1, "items_returned": 42}

{"timestamp": "2026-05-06T18:00:00.456789Z", "event": "tool_invocation_success", "tool": "query_pricing", "request_id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000", "duration_seconds": 0.333}

Key fields in every log:

• timestamp: When the event happened (ISO 8601)
• event: What happened (tool_invocation_start, upstream_request_success, etc.)
• request_id: Unique ID for this request (same across all related logs)
• Custom fields depending on the event

Logs are printed to stderr, so redirect to a file or log aggregator:

python -m otc_pricing_mcp 2>/var/log/otc-pricing-mcp.log

Pipe to jq for pretty printing:

python -m otc_pricing_mcp 2>&1 | jq .

HTTP Endpoints (port 8080)

The uvicorn server exposes all endpoints on port 8080: