Better Stack plugin for Cursor

Connect Cursor to your Better Stack Incidents and Telemetry data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Your agent can investigate incidents, check who is on call, manage uptime monitors, query logs, metrics, traces and errors, and build dashboards, all in natural language.

Add Better Stack to Cursor

Or add it manually to your Cursor mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "betterstack": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.betterstack.com"
    }
  }
}

The first tool call opens a browser for OAuth sign-in. No token configuration needed.

Try asking your agent things like:

• "Show me all monitors that are currently down."
• "What's the availability of my website this month?"
• "What incidents occurred yesterday?"
• "Who's on-call right now?"
• "Acknowledge incident #1234 and add a comment about the fix."
• "Build an explore query to find HTTP 500 errors in the last hour."
• "Create a dashboard showing error rates for my API service."

The plugin exposes the full Better Stack MCP toolset:

• Incidents (formerly Uptime): incidents, on-call schedules and escalation, uptime monitors, heartbeats, status pages.
• Telemetry: dashboards, charts, alerts, log/metric/error queries, sources and applications.
• Documentation: search Better Stack docs from within Cursor.

The complete tool reference and example prompts live in the Better Stack MCP integration docs.

OAuth is the recommended flow and works out of the box with Cursor. If you prefer an API token, you can pass it via the Authorization header instead. See API authentication:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "betterstack": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.betterstack.com",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restrict which tools the agent can use with one of these headers:

• X-MCP-Tools-Only: allowlist (only the listed tools are available)
• X-MCP-Tools-Except: blocklist (all tools except the listed ones)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "betterstack": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.betterstack.com",
      "headers": {
        "X-MCP-Tools-Only": "monitors,monitor,incidents,incident"
      }
    }
  }
}

Useful for giving your agent read-only access, scoping it to a workflow, or trimming the initial context size.

• Better Stack
• MCP integration docs
• Better Stack on Cursor (after listing approval)

MIT. See LICENSE.