Monitor MCP Server.Hear only when it matters.
Monitor remote MCP endpoints alongside the rest of your product.
What Beaam does with MCP Server
Beaam runs server/discover + tools/list for MCP 2026-07-28, falling back to the legacy initialize handshake, every minute with optional auth. It confirms the server is truly responding, not merely reachable.
What raises an incident
Curated deliberately: a short list worth your attention, not every metric that exists. Signals that can blip need repeated evidence before Beaam calls them; a reading that is definitive by nature — the provider reporting a failure outright — alerts on the first observation.
| Signal | When Beaam speaks up |
|---|---|
| Server reachable | MCP discovery/tools-list validation fails → broken. |
| Response time | Handshake ≥ 10s → degraded. |
Also collected, but quiet
Charted on the service page and there for context when something does break — but it will not wake you unless you ask it to.
- Tool count
What connecting needs
- An
httpsendpoint speaking Streamable HTTP or SSE, with no authentication, a bearer token, basic auth or a custom header. Private and local addresses are refused. Requests time out after 15 seconds.
What Beaam will not tell you
Stated rather than discovered later. Some of these are deliberate — an alert that is not about your system is noise — and some are simply where this integration's view ends.
- Beaam checks the server answers the MCP handshake and lists its tools — not that each tool works. A 200 that does not speak MCP counts as down.
- The tool count is charted, not alerted on.
- An MCP server has no change history to correlate against.
setup
Designed to stay small
Add a Streamable HTTP or SSE endpoint and its supported authentication.
Beaam applies sensible defaults. Threshold configuration is optional, not onboarding.
access
Never writes, and revocable
Beaam never writes to MCP Server. Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a key held as a deploy secret, and are deleted immediately when you disconnect.
Questions
What does Beaam alert on for MCP Server?
2 signals can raise an incident: Server reachable, Response time. Everything else is collected for context but stays quiet until you opt in.
How long does it take to connect MCP Server?
Add a Streamable HTTP or SSE endpoint and its supported authentication. Most connections are watching within a few minutes, and you can send a test alert immediately to prove the path works end to end.
Does Beaam need write access to MCP Server?
No. Beaam only ever performs read operations — there is no code path that writes to a connected provider. Worth separating from that: what Beaam *does* and what a token *permits* are different things. Where MCP Server offers a read-scoped credential, use it; some providers only issue tokens carrying broader rights than Beaam uses, which is a property of their API rather than of Beaam's behaviour. Scope it as narrowly as the provider allows. Credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before storage and deleted the moment you disconnect.
What does MCP Server monitoring cost?
The free plan covers two integrations and five watched services, with email, Slack and webhook alerts. Solo is $19/month flat for unlimited integrations, services and organizations, with collaborators included — there is no per-host, per-check or per-alert metering.
Watching more than MCP Server?
Most stacks are several services with seams between them, and the seams are where the damaging failures hide. Beaam correlates across every connected integration, so a database problem reads as one incident rather than five alarms from five tools.