Tideways MCP Server

An unofficial, community-maintained server, not affiliated with or supported by Tideways. For Tideways' own tooling, see the official Tideways CLI.

A read-only Model Context Protocol server for Tideways. It lets an AI assistant answer questions such as "why was checkout slow yesterday?" from your performance data, issues and traces. It only calls GET endpoints of the Tideways REST API.

Install

You need a Tideways API token with the scopes metrics, traces and errors (Organization settings → API Access), and Node.js 22+ or Docker. Coming from 1.x? See UPGRADING.md.

Claude Code

Terminal

claude mcp add tideways -e TIDEWAYS_TOKEN=your-token -- npx -y tideways-mcp-server

Add -s user to use it in every project.

Claude Desktop

Open the .mcpb bundle from the latest release. It asks for the token and keeps it in the OS keychain.

Codex

bash

codex mcp add tideways --env TIDEWAYS_TOKEN=your-token -- npx -y tideways-mcp-server

The Codex CLI, IDE extension and app share this entry in ~/.codex/config.toml.

Cursor, Gemini CLI and other clients

Add to the client's MCP configuration (Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json; Gemini CLI: ~/.gemini/settings.json; either also per project):

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tideways": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "tideways-mcp-server"],
      "env": { "TIDEWAYS_TOKEN": "your-token" }
    }
  }
}

OpenCode

Add to opencode.json in the project, or to ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json for all projects. {env:TIDEWAYS_TOKEN} reads the token from your shell's environment.

config.json

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "tideways": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": ["npx", "-y", "tideways-mcp-server"],
      "environment": { "TIDEWAYS_TOKEN": "{env:TIDEWAYS_TOKEN}" }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Add to .vscode/mcp.json, or run MCP: Open User Configuration for all workspaces. VS Code asks for the token on first start and stores it.

config.json

{
  "inputs": [
    { "type": "promptString", "id": "tideways-token", "description": "Tideways API token", "password": true }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tideways": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "tideways-mcp-server"],
      "env": { "TIDEWAYS_TOKEN": "${input:tideways-token}" }
    }
  }
}

Docker

In any setup above, replace npx -y tideways-mcp-server with docker run -i --rm -e TIDEWAYS_TOKEN ghcr.io/abuhamza/tideways-mcp-server (pin a version with :2.0.0). For example:

Terminal

claude mcp add tideways -e TIDEWAYS_TOKEN=your-token -- docker run -i --rm -e TIDEWAYS_TOKEN ghcr.io/abuhamza/tideways-mcp-server

json

"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "TIDEWAYS_TOKEN", "ghcr.io/abuhamza/tideways-mcp-server"],
"env": { "TIDEWAYS_TOKEN": "your-token" }

Tools

Tool	Answers
`tideways_list_projects`	Which projects and scopes does my token have, and how much of the hourly rate limit is left?
`tideways_list_services`	Which services does a project have, and which of them serve "voucher"?
`tideways_get_performance`	How is the app doing in any window of up to 24 h within the last ~30 days? Totals, layers, top transactions
`tideways_get_transaction`	When did one transaction get slow, and in which layer? Per-minute timeline and response-time histogram
`tideways_get_performance_summary`	Requests, errors and p95 in 15-minute buckets over up to 30 days
`tideways_list_issues`	Which errors, slow SQL queries, deprecations, warnings or notices are open, resolved or ignored, in any service or transaction?
`tideways_get_issue`	Where in the code does an issue fail, which transactions does it hit, and when did it start or stop?
`tideways_search_traces`	Which individual requests were slow, in any transaction, and where did the time go?
`tideways_get_history`	Day, week or month report for a past date
`tideways_get_observations`	Configuration problems and code bottlenecks Tideways detected (e.g. N+1 queries)

All tools except tideways_list_projects take an optional project (name or organization/name).

Configuration

Environment variables; empty values count as unset. The server does not load .env files.

Variable	Default	Meaning
`TIDEWAYS_TOKEN`	required	API token
`TIDEWAYS_PROJECT`	the token's only project	Default project; with several projects and no default, pass `project` per call
`TIDEWAYS_ORG`	from the token's projects	Organization, to match a plain project name
`TIDEWAYS_ENV`	API default	Default environment
`TIDEWAYS_SERVICE`	the project's default service	Default service
`TIDEWAYS_BASE_URL`	`https://app.tideways.io/apps/api`	API base URL, https only
`TIDEWAYS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT`	`30000`	Request timeout in ms, a positive integer up to `600000`
`LOG_LEVEL`	`info`	`debug`, `info`, `warn` or `error`, case-insensitive; logs go to stderr

Good to know

All times are UTC, YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm. The API rate limit is per Tideways organization and clock hour; its size depends on the plan, and all tokens and projects of the organization share it.
Tools read the project's default service unless you name one; tideways_list_issues reads all services. The API cannot list services; tideways_list_services finds them through the issues of all services, and its search costs one request per service.
tideways_search_traces returns 30 traces per call, or up to 100 with limit.
Limits of the Tideways API: history for production and the default service only, issues 10 per page, and no trace filter by bottleneck (an N+1 observation's link opens the affected traces in Tideways).

Security

The token is read from the environment and never logged, and trace URLs are returned without query strings. Report vulnerabilities privately as described in SECURITY.md.

Development

Terminal

npm ci
npm run check                      # the gate: typecheck, lint, format, tests, commit messages
npm run build && npm run inspect   # try the tools in the MCP Inspector

Architecture, invariants and how to add a tool: CLAUDE.md. Commits follow Conventional Commits.

License

MIT