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DimensionPagerDuty MCP ServerPagerDuty's official MCP server for managing incidents and on-call from your IDE or chat clientContext7Upstash's official server providing up-to-date third-party library docs for AI coding assistants
FMRS64 / 100 · C80 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2014 / 20
Security and permissions14 / 2016 / 20
Maintenance11 / 2017 / 20
Documentation17 / 2015 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2018 / 20
Best for
  • SREs / on-call engineers already using PagerDuty
  • DevOps teams wanting AI-assisted incident triage without leaving their IDE
  • Teams that want to query incident metrics or manage schedules conversationally
  • Developers using fast-moving frameworks/libraries worried about the AI suggesting stale code
  • Scenarios wanting zero-config documentation lookup
Not for
  • Teams that don't use PagerDuty
  • Organizations requiring strict least-privilege, role-scoped tokens (this server uses a user-level API token with that user's full account privileges)
  • Deployments that expose the HTTP endpoint directly on untrusted networks without an authenticating reverse proxy
  • Looking up internal/private codebase documentation (Context7 targets publicly published open-source libraries)
  • Cases needing very high coverage of obscure, niche libraries (coverage depends on what Context7's platform has indexed)
Required permissions
  • Requires a PagerDuty User API Token (`PAGERDUTY_USER_API_KEY`) with that user's full privileges on the PagerDuty account
  • Only read-only tools are exposed by default; `--enable-write-tools` must be explicitly set to create, update, or delete incidents, services, teams, schedules, escalation policies, webhooks, and status page content
  • Optional `PAGERDUTY_API_HOST` to target the standard or EU regional API endpoint
  • Usable without an API key (subject to a free-tier rate limit); CONTEXT7_API_KEY is an optional credential for higher quota
  • Read-only documentation lookup — no code execution or local filesystem access involved
Risks and side effects
  • The streamable-http and sse transports have no built-in authentication — any client able to reach the host/port can invoke tools, including write tools, using the single API key the server was started with; the README explicitly warns to keep the default loopback bind and only expose 0.0.0.0 behind an authenticating reverse proxy/gateway
  • Write tools are powerful: they can delete teams, modify escalation policies and schedules, and create status page incident posts, so mistakes can disrupt real on-call routing or customer-visible status pages
  • Creating a webhook subscription returns a signing secret that must be stored securely
  • Claude Desktop's config file requires the API key to be stored in plaintext, so file permissions matter
  • The free tier has limited quota — high-frequency use may hit rate limits
  • Documentation content comes from Context7's platform index, so its accuracy and freshness depend on that platform's crawl cadence
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, VS CodeClaude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Cline, Amp
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