Guides
Running MCP servers in production
What we've learned building an MCP monitoring service — the failure modes, the protocol details, and the checks that actually catch problems.
MCP Server Monitoring: The Complete Guide
Why MCP servers fail silently, what to monitor — initialize handshake, tools/list drift, synthetic tool calls, latency — and how to set up monitoring that catches real failures.
8 min read
Why Your MCP Server Fails the initialize Handshake
The five most common causes of MCP initialize failures — Accept headers, protocol version mismatches, auth, session handling, timeouts — and how to debug each one.
7 min read
Streamable HTTP vs SSE: MCP Transports Explained
How MCP went from HTTP+SSE to Streamable HTTP, how the two transports actually differ on the wire, what clients expect in 2026, and how to migrate.
7 min read
How to Check if Your MCP Server Is Up
A hands-on curl walkthrough of the MCP initialize and tools/list calls — what a healthy response looks like, the errors you will actually see, and how to automate the check.
6 min read
Tool Drift: The Silent MCP Server Killer
A renamed tool or a changed input schema breaks every agent that depends on your MCP server — while every uptime check stays green. What tool drift is and how to detect it.
6 min read