Aiven MCP

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Aiven cloud data platform.

Manage PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, applications, and other Aiven services directly from AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code Copilot.

[!WARNING] Use with care. This MCP server can create, modify, and delete Aiven services and data on your behalf. AI agents may execute destructive actions (dropping databases, deleting services, producing messages) based on their interpretation of your prompts. You are fully responsible for the actions taken through this tool.

Permissions: Access is governed by the Aiven user permissions associated with the authenticated account. The MCP server can only perform actions that your Aiven user is allowed to do.

AI Agent Security: AI agents may need access credentials (database connection strings, streaming tokens) to act on your behalf. Review what your agent is doing, especially in production environments. Follow your organization's security policies and do a risk assessment before giving AI agents access to sensitive resources.

Quick Start

Option 1: Remote (hosted by Aiven)

The MCP server is hosted at https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp. Your MCP client will prompt you to authorize on Aiven.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user --transport http aiven-mcp "https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp"

Cursor

Or manually add to Cursor MCP settings:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiven-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code / Copilot

Add to .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace:

{
  "servers": {
    "aiven-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Read-Only Mode (Remote)

Enable read-only mode by adding ?read_only=true to the URL. All write operations will be excluded from the MCP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiven-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp?read_only=true"
    }
  }
}

Scoped Tools (Remote)

Reduce the tool surface exposed to your AI agent by adding ?services_scope= to the URL. Useful when you only work with a subset of Aiven services and want to keep the agent's context focused. Combine values with commas. core (project/service discovery) is always included implicitly.

Valid scopes: all, core, pg, kafka, application, integrations. Use all to explicitly load every tool (same as omitting the param). all cannot be combined with other scopes.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiven-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp?services_scope=kafka"
    }
  }
}

You can also combine with read_only:

https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp?services_scope=pg&read_only=true

Write Exceptions in Read-Only Mode (Remote)

When read_only=true, add ?write_allowlist= to re-enable specific write tools while keeping everything else read-only. Useful when you want mostly-read access but still need to allow one write action, for example creating Kafka topics. Combine multiple tool names with commas. Ignored when read_only is not enabled.

https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp?read_only=true&write_allowlist=aiven_kafka_topic_create

Marketplace Customers (Remote)

If you subscribed to Aiven through a cloud marketplace, add your marketplace as a path segment so sign-in uses the correct console:

Marketplace	Path segment
AWS Marketplace	https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp/aws
Azure Marketplace	https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp/azure
Google Cloud Marketplace	https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp/gcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiven-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp/<marketplace>"
    }
  }
}

The path segment combines with the query parameters above, for example https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp/gcp?services_scope=pg&read_only=true.

Option 2: stdio (local)

Run the server locally as a child process of your MCP client. Requires Node.js 18+.

You must provide your Aiven API token via the AIVEN_TOKEN environment variable. Create a token here.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user aiven-mcp -e AIVEN_TOKEN=your-token-here -- npx -y mcp-aiven

Cursor, VS Code -- add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiven-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-aiven"],
      "env": {
        "AIVEN_TOKEN": "your-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config file locations:

• Cursor: Cursor Settings > MCP Servers
• VS Code: .vscode/mcp.json in your workspace

Option 3: Local development

Run a local build of the server (useful for development and testing):

pnpm install && pnpm generate:api-types && pnpm generate && pnpm build && AIVEN_TOKEN="<YOUR_TOKEN>" MCP_TRANSPORT="http" PORT=3000 node dist/index.js

The server listens on port 3000 by default. Connect your MCP client to http://localhost:3000/mcp.

To point a remote deployment at a custom host (e.g. your local build), set MCP_HOST:

MCP_HOST=http://localhost:3000 node dist/index.js

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Description
AIVEN_TOKEN	stdio only	--	Aiven API token (create one here)
AIVEN_READ_ONLY	No	false	Set to true to expose only read-only tools
AIVEN_SERVICES_SCOPE	No	--	Comma-separated scopes to expose (e.g. kafka, pg,kafka, or all). Valid: all, core, pg, kafka, application, integrations. core is always included. Omitting the var or setting all loads every tool.
AIVEN_ALLOW_SECRETS	No	false	Set to true to expose the aiven_service_connection_info tool, which returns live credentials (passwords, connection URIs, certs) into the conversation. Disabled while AIVEN_READ_ONLY=true.
AIVEN_WRITE_ALLOWLIST	No	--	Comma-separated tool names to re-enable while AIVEN_READ_ONLY=true (e.g. aiven_kafka_topic_create). Ignored when read-only mode is not enabled.
MCP_HOST	No	https://mcp.aiven.live	Override the OAuth protected resource host
MCP_TRANSPORT	No	stdio	Set to http to start an HTTP server instead of stdio
MCP_HTTP_RATE_LIMIT_MAX	No	1000	Max requests per window on POST /mcp (HTTP transport), per bearer token. Client IP rate limiting is expected at Cloudflare.
MCP_HTTP_RATE_LIMIT_WINDOW_MS	No	60000	Window length in milliseconds for MCP_HTTP_RATE_LIMIT_MAX.
EXTRA_PROTECTION	No	false	Set to true on HTTP deployments to require a valid X-Edge-Auth header on every request except GET /health. See Edge protection rollout below.
MCP_EDGE_AUTH_SECRET	When EXTRA_PROTECTION=true	--	Shared secret; must match the value Cloudflare injects as X-Edge-Auth via Transform Rules.

In remote (HTTP) mode, AIVEN_TOKEN is not needed. Your MCP client sends your token as a Bearer token with each request.

Production HTTP traffic is rate-limited in two layers: Cloudflare enforces a per-client-IP limit (configured in the Cloudflare dashboard), and this server enforces MCP_HTTP_RATE_LIMIT_* per bearer token on POST /mcp.

Edge protection rollout

When EXTRA_PROTECTION=true, any mismatch between MCP_EDGE_AUTH_SECRET and the value Cloudflare injects as X-Edge-Auth causes every request to return 403 (except GET /health). Both values are environment/config on opposite sides of the wire, so the only recovery path is to fix the secret and redeploy or update Cloudflare.

Enable in this order:

1. Cloudflare Transform Rule — Add a rule that sets X-Edge-Auth (and, if used for PG tools, X-Client-IP) on traffic to the MCP origin. Note the secret value you configure.
2. MCP_EDGE_AUTH_SECRET — Deploy the server with this env var set to the same secret as the Transform Rule. Leave EXTRA_PROTECTION unset or false for now; verify the origin still accepts traffic.
3. EXTRA_PROTECTION=true — Enable only after steps 1–2 are live and matched. Confirm a normal MCP request succeeds and direct origin access without X-Edge-Auth is rejected.
4. Secret rotation — Update Cloudflare and MCP_EDGE_AUTH_SECRET together (or briefly set EXTRA_PROTECTION=false), redeploy, then re-enable. Never rotate one side alone while the flag is on.

If EXTRA_PROTECTION=true at startup and MCP_EDGE_AUTH_SECRET is missing, the process exits immediately with an error.

While rejections continue, the server logs a misconfig warning at most once every 15 minutes (reset after a request with valid X-Edge-Auth), so a secret mismatch is visible in logs without one line per rejected request.

Tools

Core

Tool	Description
aiven_project_list	List projects
aiven_project_get	Get project details
aiven_list_project_clouds	List cloud platforms for a project
aiven_project_vpc_list	List VPCs for a project
aiven_service_list	List services
aiven_service_type_plans	List plans with cloud availability
aiven_service_plan_pricing	Get pricing for a plan in a specific cloud
aiven_service_create	Create a service
aiven_service_get	Get service information
aiven_service_update	Update a service (plan, config, power state)
aiven_service_metrics_fetch	Fetch metrics for managed data services
aiven_service_application_metrics_get	Fetch metrics for application services
aiven_project_get_service_logs	Get service log entries
aiven_service_query_activity	Fetch current queries for a service
aiven_project_get_event_logs	Get project event log entries

Kafka

Tool	Description
aiven_kafka_topic_list	List Kafka topics
aiven_kafka_topic_create	Create a Kafka topic
aiven_kafka_topic_get	Get Kafka topic info
aiven_kafka_topic_update	Update a Kafka topic
aiven_kafka_topic_delete	Delete a Kafka topic
aiven_kafka_topic_message_list	Read messages from a Kafka topic
aiven_kafka_topic_message_produce	Produce messages into a Kafka topic
aiven_kafka_connect_available_connectors	List available connector types
aiven_kafka_connect_list	List running connectors
aiven_kafka_connect_create_connector	Create a connector
aiven_kafka_connect_edit_connector	Edit a connector
aiven_kafka_connect_get_connector_status	Get connector status
aiven_kafka_connect_pause_connector	Pause a connector
aiven_kafka_connect_resume_connector	Resume a connector
aiven_kafka_connect_restart_connector	Restart a connector
aiven_kafka_connect_delete_connector	Delete a connector
aiven_kafka_schema_registry_subjects	List Schema Registry subjects
aiven_kafka_schema_registry_subject_version_get	Get Schema Registry subject version

PostgreSQL

Tool	Description
aiven_pg_service_available_extensions	List available extensions
aiven_pg_service_query_statistics	Fetch query statistics
aiven_pg_bouncer_create	Create a PgBouncer connection pool
aiven_pg_bouncer_update	Update a PgBouncer connection pool
aiven_pg_bouncer_delete	Delete a PgBouncer connection pool
aiven_pg_read	Run a read-only SQL query
aiven_pg_write	Run a write SQL statement (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE TABLE, etc.)
aiven_pg_optimize_query	AI-powered query optimization (EverSQL)

Applications

Tool	Description
aiven_application_create	Create and initially deploy a Containerfile/Dockerfile application; returns 409 if the service already exists
aiven_application_redeploy	Rebuild an existing application from its configured repository without changing service configuration
aiven_vcs_integration_initialize	Start the browser-based flow for connecting a GitHub account
aiven_vcs_integration_list	List connected VCS (GitHub) accounts
aiven_vcs_integration_repository_list	List repositories for a VCS integration
aiven_vcs_integration_repository_branch_list	List repository branches and their current commit SHAs
aiven_vcs_integration_repository_container_manifest_files_list	Find candidate Containerfile, Dockerfile, and Compose manifests
aiven_vcs_integration_repository_scan_container_manifest	Derive candidate Aiven service configurations from a Containerfile, Dockerfile, or supported parts of a Compose file

Documentation

Tool	Description
aiven_docs_search	Search the official Aiven documentation in natural language. Only available on the hosted server (https://mcp.aiven.live/mcp) — not exposed in self-hosted deployments.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, running locally, and adding new tools.

License

Apache-2.0