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Amazon Prometheus Service MCP Server

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) provides a fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Prometheus-compatible monitoring service designed for container metrics and custom application telemetry at scale.

Quick Start Summary

The Amazon Prometheus Service MCP server is a Model Context Protocol bridge that connects AI assistants — including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Copilot — to the Amazon Prometheus Service API through natural language. It exposes 10 API endpoints as callable tools, such as DescribeAlertManagerDefinition, CreateAlertManagerDefinition, PutAlertManagerDefinition, and more. No authentication is required — setup takes approximately 30 seconds. The server uses STDIO transport and can be installed by running npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-amp. This integration is sourced from the auto Amazon Prometheus Service OpenAPI specification (v2020-08-01) and has a quality score of 46/99 (fair documentation coverage).

10Endpointstools mapped
NoneAuthopen access
46/99Qualityfair
~30 secSetupno auth

Server Details

Category
Developer Tools
Authentication
None
Endpoints
10 operations
Transport
STDIO
Spec Version
v2020-08-01
Install Command
npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-amp

Environment Variables

AMAZON_PROMETHEUS_SERVICE_API_KEY

Example: your_amazon_prometheus_service_api_key

Top Endpoints

GET
/workspaces/{workspaceId}/alertmanager/definition

DescribeAlertManagerDefinition

POST
/workspaces/{workspaceId}/alertmanager/definition

CreateAlertManagerDefinition

PUT
/workspaces/{workspaceId}/alertmanager/definition

PutAlertManagerDefinition

DELETE
/workspaces/{workspaceId}/alertmanager/definition

DeleteAlertManagerDefinition

GET
/workspaces/{workspaceId}/logging

DescribeLoggingConfiguration

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📖 Detailed MCP Integration Guide

A technical breakdown of capabilities, agent workflows, and security/configuration best practices.

Capabilities & Use Cases
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) provides a fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Prometheus-compatible monitoring service designed for container metrics and custom application telemetry at scale. Operated by Amazon Web Services (AWS), AMP eliminates the operational burden of self-managing Prometheus infrastructure, handling provisioning, patching, scaling, and replication of monitoring data. The service's API endpoints, identified by the workspace ID, allow for programmatic management of its core components. The alertmanager/definition endpoints enable developers to retrieve, create, update, and delete the Alertmanager configuration, which defines how Prometheus alerts are routed, grouped, inhibited, and sent to receivers like email, Slack, or PagerDuty. The logging endpoints manage the configuration for forwarding query logs from the AMP workspace to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for auditing, debugging, and compliance purposes. Finally, the rulegroupsnamespaces endpoints provide the capability to create, update, and retrieve Prometheus rule group files, which contain alerting and recording rules used to generate new time series or trigger alerts based on PromQL expressions. This API is primarily consumed by DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform teams building and operating microservices on Amazon EKS or other container platforms, enabling them to define, manage, and automate their observability pipelines as code.
🤖AI Agent Value
Exposing the Amazon Prometheus Service API via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) transforms it from a static endpoint into a dynamic, interactive toolset for AI coding assistants. This integration offers profound value by bridging the gap between high-level, intent-driven commands and low-level infrastructure management. An AI model like Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Cline, equipped with these MCP tools, gains the ability to directly understand and manipulate the state of a developer's monitoring configuration within their cloud environment. The value lies in automating repetitive, error-prone configuration tasks, accelerating debugging cycles, and enabling conversational infrastructure management. Instead of manually writing JSON payloads and executing API calls, a developer can instruct the AI agent to perform complex orchestration, such as "Audit my current alertmanager configuration for redundancy and suggest improvements for high-availability email routing," or "Translate these business requirement notes into a set of Prometheus recording rules for latency percentile tracking." The AI acts as a contextual interpreter, converting operational intent into precise API actions, thereby reducing cognitive load and minimizing the risk of syntax or logic errors in critical monitoring definitions.
💬Example Workflows
Within a development workflow, a developer can leverage this MCP server to instruct the AI agent to perform a wide array of dynamic, context-aware tasks. For instance, after deploying a new service, a developer could say, "Create a new rule group namespace called 'api-health' with a rule that fires an alert if the 5xx error rate for the service exceeds 1% over a 5-minute window." The AI agent would then construct and execute the appropriate POST request to the rulegroupsnamespaces endpoint. Another practical scenario involves incident response: "Our alerting for memory leaks is too noisy. Can you retrieve our current alertmanager definition, analyze the inhibition and grouping rules, and propose changes to reduce alerts from transient spikes?" The AI would fetch the configuration via GET, reason over its structure, and suggest modifications that could then be applied via PUT. Furthermore, for compliance, a developer could command, "Generate a configuration to send all PromQL query logs from our AMP workspace to a CloudWatch Log group named 'prod-amp-audit-logs'," and the AI would handle the creation and setup through the logging endpoints. These examples illustrate how the AI agent transitions from a code autocomplete tool to an active participant in operational lifecycle management.
🛡️Security & Auth
Critical to the implementation of this MCP server is robust security and authentication, especially since the native API endpoints list "None" for authentication. In a real-world deployment, the server must enforce authentication and authorization via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The API requests must be signed using AWS Signature Version 4, with the MCP server acting as the credential broker. Developers should configure the server with an IAM role or user possessing the principle of least privilege—granting only the specific AmazonPrometheusService permissions required for the intended tasks (e.g., aps:PutAlertManagerDefinition, aps:CreateRuleGroupsNamespace). It is imperative to avoid using wildcard permissions and to audit access via AWS CloudTrail. Configuration should involve setting up secure environments, such as AWS Secrets Manager for storing any sensitive configuration, and ensuring all communication between the AI assistant and the MCP server occurs over encrypted channels. The MCP server itself should be deployed in a secure, network-isolated environment with strict ingress controls, ensuring that only the authorized AI client can interact with the backend AWS API calls. This layered security approach is non-negotiable for maintaining the integrity of an organization's monitoring and alerting infrastructure.

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