Data pipelines MCP servers & tools

19 Model Context Protocol servers tagged “Data pipelines”, ranked by usage. Connect any of them to Claude Desktop, Cursor or Windsurf in one step.

What qualifies: Builds, runs or inspects data pipelines or transformations. Any one tool counts: Airflow, dbt, Dagster, Prefect, Airbyte, Kafka or Spark. Each server was checked against this, not tagged by keyword.

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MCP Confluent
confluentinc
Confluent integration to interact with Confluent Kafka and Confluent Cloud REST APIs.
Databases
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 168
MCP Aiven
Aiven-Open
Navigate your Aiven projects and interact with the PostgreSQL®, Apache Kafka®, ClickHouse® and OpenSearch® services
Databases
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 28
Dbt MCP
dbt-labsOfficial
Official MCP server for dbt (data build tool) providing integration with dbt Core/Cloud CLI, project metadata discovery, model information, and semantic layer querying capabilities.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 613
MCP Kafka
Apache Kafka monitoring & management for AI agents (with consumer lag) — governed.
Monitoring
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 1
MCP Server Apache Airflow
yangkyeongmo@
MCP server that connects to Apache Airflow using official client.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 180
Airflow MCP Server
us-all
Airflow REST API — 7 tools (DAG list, runs, task instances, log tails, trigger, clear). dag-health-rollup aggregation. Airflow 3.x /api/v2 + JWT (SimpleAuthManager); pin 0.1.x for Airflow 2.x. Read-only by default; trigger/clear write-gated.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 2
Strimzi Kafka Cli
Manage Apache Kafka on Kubernetes via Strimzi. Clusters, topics, users, connectors, MM2.
Cloud Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 91
Airflow MCP Server
MCP Server for Apache Airflow
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 33
Dbt Docs MCP
mattijsdp
MCP server for dbt-core (OSS) users as the official dbt MCP only supports dbt Cloud. Supports project metadata, model and column-level lineage and dbt documentation.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 23
Kafka MCP
wklee610
MCP server for Apache Kafka that allows LLM agents to inspect topics, consumer groups, and safely manage offsets (reset, rewind).
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 13
MCP Timeplus
jovezhong
MCP server for Apache Kafka and Timeplus. Able to list Kafka topics, poll Kafka messages, save Kafka data locally and query streaming data with SQL via Timeplus
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 12
Fivetran MCP
MCP server for Fivetran API - manage syncs, check status, and control data pipelines
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 2
MCP Airflow
antonio-mello-ai
Manage Apache Airflow through its REST API — list DAGs, inspect DAG runs and task instances, trigger runs, and check failed-DAG and scheduler/metadatabase health. 7 tools, built with FastMCP. Install: uvx mcp-airflow.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 2
Dbt Plan
Predicts the DDL a dbt change will execute, before you run it. Reads files, not the warehouse.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 2
Incident Response MCP for Apache Airflow
Diagnose Airflow failures from UI links with bounded logs and optional recovery actions.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 2
Kafka MCP
Debug Kafka from an agent: find messages, measure consumer lag, unblock consumers, compare clusters.
Developer Tools
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: 1
Datanika Core
datanika-io
Read-only-by-default MCP server for Datanika, the open-source ELT + dbt platform: browse connections, preview data, run and compile dbt transforms, monitor runs, and manage pipelines. 25 tools; opt-in --allow-write enables create/trigger.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: —
Datanika MCP
Read-only-by-default MCP for Datanika: browse data, run dbt transforms, manage ELT pipelines.
Data Platforms
Upvotes: 0Installs: 0GitHub stars: —
Kafka Dataops MCP
DataOps Kafka MCP server with consumer lag diagnosis and broker monitoring
Monitoring
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