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MCP Tools Analysis: Monitoring Infrastructure

Date: 2025-10-02 Author: Ryan Bruns (with Claude)

Executive Summary

This document catalogs and analyzes two MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers developed for Slack's monitoring infrastructure. The analysis identifies tool patterns, use cases, naming conventions, and opportunities for optimization.

Key Findings

MCP Authentication Investigation: Why prometheus MCP tools aren't working

Problem Summary

The prometheus MCP server (monitoring-mcp) is failing to connect from the claude-worker, while grafana and alertmanager MCP servers (monitoring-ai-mcp) are working fine. The error seen in logs:

'mcp_servers': [
  {'name': 'alertmanager', 'status': 'connected'},
 {'name': 'grafana', 'status': 'connected'},

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