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  "title": "tracehub-mcp",
  "description": "Query OTel traces across Jaeger, Tempo, Traceloop, Datadog, Sentry, X-Ray, New Relic, Honeycomb.",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T17:49:14.083692Z",
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      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Which observability backend to query."
    },
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      "name": "BACKEND_URL",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": true,
      "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."
    },
    {
      "name": "BACKEND_API_KEY",
      "isSecret": true,
      "isRequired": false,
      "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."
    },
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      "name": "BACKEND_AWS_REGION",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "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",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "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",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Honeycomb dataset slug, required for the Honeycomb backend only - the Query Data API is dataset-scoped."
    },
    {
      "name": "BACKEND_APP_KEY",
      "isSecret": true,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Datadog Application key, required in addition to BACKEND_API_KEY for the Datadog backend only."
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      "name": "BACKEND_TEMPO_INSTANCE_ID",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "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)."
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      "name": "BACKEND_SENTRY_ORG",
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      "description": "Sentry organization slug, required for the Sentry backend only."
    },
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      "name": "BACKEND_SENTRY_PROJECT",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Sentry project slug, optional for the Sentry backend - narrows queries to one project."
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      "name": "BACKEND_ENVIRONMENTS",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Comma-separated environments for the Traceloop backend only."
    },
    {
      "name": "BACKEND_TIMEOUT",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Request timeout in seconds."
    },
    {
      "name": "BACKEND_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Ceiling on the decoded size of any single backend response, in bytes (1 to 1073741824). An oversized body is refused before it is buffered or parsed."
    },
    {
      "name": "LOG_LEVEL",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Logging level."
    },
    {
      "name": "MAX_TRACES_PER_QUERY",
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      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Maximum traces validated per query (1-1000)."
    },
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      "name": "SLOW_REQUEST_THRESHOLD_MS",
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      "description": "Logs a WARNING for any backend request slower than this, independent of LOG_LEVEL. Unset disables slow-request logging."
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      "name": "QUERY_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS",
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      "description": "Cache backend query results for this many seconds with in-flight request coalescing; finite, > 0 and at most 86400 (one day). Unset disables the cache."
    },
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      "name": "QUERY_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES",
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      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Upper bound on the number of cached query results held at once (1-100000); the least-recently-used entry is evicted first."
    },
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      "name": "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "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",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Service name reported in self-instrumentation spans, only used when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set."
    },
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      "name": "MCP_INCLUDE_ARGS_IN_SPANS",
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      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Include tool call arguments/results as OTel span attributes when self-instrumentation is enabled. Off by default since they may contain sensitive data."
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