tracehub MCP Setup & Guide

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  "id": "io.github.mcpsmiths/tracehub-mcp",
  "type": "mcp-server",
  "version": "0.12.2",
  "displayName": "tracehub-mcp",
  "description": "Query OTel traces across Jaeger, Tempo, Traceloop, Datadog, Sentry, X-Ray, New Relic, Honeycomb.",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/mcpsmiths/tracehub-mcp",
    "source": "github"
  },
  "distribution": {
    "packages": [
      {
        "registryType": "pypi",
        "identifier": "tracehub-mcp",
        "version": "0.12.2",
        "transport": "stdio",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_TYPE",
            "description": "Which observability backend to query.",
            "isRequired": true
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_URL",
            "description": "Backend API endpoint, e.g. http://localhost:16686 for Jaeger, https://api.datadoghq.com for Datadog, https://api.newrelic.com/graphql for New Relic, or https://api.honeycomb.io for Honeycomb. For the X-Ray backend this is decorative only (e.g. https://xray.us-east-1.amazonaws.com) - never dereferenced for a live request.",
            "isRequired": true
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_API_KEY",
            "description": "API key or auth token. Required for Traceloop, Datadog, Sentry, New Relic, and Honeycomb; not used by Jaeger, Tempo, or X-Ray. For New Relic this must be a User API key, not an Ingest or License key; for Honeycomb this must be a Configuration Key, not an Ingest or Management key.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_AWS_REGION",
            "description": "AWS region, e.g. us-east-1. Required for the X-Ray backend only - X-Ray authenticates via boto3's standard AWS credential chain, not BACKEND_API_KEY."
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_NEWRELIC_ACCOUNT_ID",
            "description": "New Relic account ID, required for the New Relic backend only - NerdGraph queries are user-scoped, not account-scoped, so this identifies which account's data to read."
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_HONEYCOMB_DATASET",
            "description": "Honeycomb dataset slug, required for the Honeycomb backend only - the Query Data API is dataset-scoped."
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_APP_KEY",
            "description": "Datadog Application key, required in addition to BACKEND_API_KEY for the Datadog backend only.",
            "isSecret": true
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_TEMPO_INSTANCE_ID",
            "description": "Grafana Cloud stack/instance ID, used with BACKEND_API_KEY for Basic Auth (Tempo backend only, required for Grafana Cloud-hosted Tempo, not needed for self-hosted Tempo)."
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_SENTRY_ORG",
            "description": "Sentry organization slug, required for the Sentry backend only."
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_SENTRY_PROJECT",
            "description": "Sentry project slug, optional for the Sentry backend - narrows queries to one project."
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_ENVIRONMENTS",
            "description": "Comma-separated environments for the Traceloop backend only."
          },
          {
            "name": "BACKEND_TIMEOUT",
            "description": "Request timeout in seconds."
          },
          {
            "name": "LOG_LEVEL",
            "description": "Logging level."
          },
          {
            "name": "MAX_TRACES_PER_QUERY",
            "description": "Maximum traces validated per query (1-1000)."
          },
          {
            "name": "SLOW_REQUEST_THRESHOLD_MS",
            "description": "Logs a WARNING for any backend request slower than this, independent of LOG_LEVEL. Unset disables slow-request logging."
          },
          {
            "name": "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT",
            "description": "Enables opt-in OTel self-instrumentation of tool calls when set. Unset means zero overhead - no TracerProvider is configured and no middleware is registered."
          },
          {
            "name": "OTEL_SERVICE_NAME",
            "description": "Service name reported in self-instrumentation spans, only used when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set."
          },
          {
            "name": "MCP_INCLUDE_ARGS_IN_SPANS",
            "description": "Include tool call arguments/results as OTel span attributes when self-instrumentation is enabled. Off by default since they may contain sensitive data."
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "remotes": []
  },
  "dependencies": [],
  "installTargets": [
    "claude-code",
    "claude-desktop",
    "cursor",
    "vscode",
    "trae",
    "cherry-studio",
    "lingma",
    "windsurf",
    "cline",
    "workbuddy"
  ],
  "keywords": [],
  "provenance": {
    "origin": "official-mcp-registry",
    "originalId": "io.github.mcpsmiths/tracehub-mcp",
    "originalUrl": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers/io.github.mcpsmiths%2Ftracehub-mcp/versions/latest",
    "isOfficial": true,
    "status": "active"
  }
}