Exploring Observability with MCP Servers

Dan Barr

Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer

Publish Date November 09, 2025

Lessons

Intermediate
< 1 min read

One of the hot button topics when it comes to MCP is observability. Sure, MCP can introduce new observability challenges, but it might also be able to resolve some long-standing observability issues. One of the more popular MCP servers is from Grafana, and Tiffany Jernigan showed the audience how to put it to work.

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