Otel

Name: Otel
Author: studiomeyer-io

@studiomeyer-io

About Otel

W3C Trace Context bridge for the Model Context Protocol — propagate traces through MCP _meta (SEP-414) and emit OpenTelemetry spans so Host → MCP server → tool → downstream shows up as one trace.

Basic information

License

MIT

Runtime

node

Publisher

studiomeyer-io

Submitted by

Matthias Meyer - StudioMeyer

Config

Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-otel": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-d",
        "--name",
        "jaeger",
        "\\"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Tools

No tools detected

We auto-extract tools from the README. The maintainer can list them under a ## Tools heading to populate this section.

Overview

What is Otel?

How to use Otel?

Follow the repository README to install the server and add its MCP configuration to your client.

Key features of Otel

reads traceparent / tracestate / baggage from the caller's _meta
starts a SERVER span named tools/call as a child of the caller's span
runs your handler with that span active (via the OTel context)
ends the span with OK / ERROR status and records thrown exceptions
host.chat-turn [INTERNAL]

Use cases of Otel

Connect an MCP-compatible client to this repository's service.
Review the README-backed setup before enabling it in production.

FAQ from Otel

Where is the source code for Otel?

The source code is linked from the repository URL on this page.

Does Otel include a standard MCP config?

If the README contains a parseable MCP configuration block, it is shown in the Config tab.

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