Effortless Observability for All Your MCP Tools.
ithena-cli provides immediate, end-to-end insight into every Model Context Protocol interaction. Seamlessly monitor requests, responses, errors, and performance—without any code changes. Our CLI is open-source and works locally first.
From debugging community projects to ensuring enterprise-grade reliability for critical AI services, gain the clarity to innovate faster, optimize agent behavior, and operate with confidence at any scale.
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Observability for Every MCP Stakeholder
Built for the Entire Model Context Protocol Ecosystem.
From individual developers experimenting with the latest community MCP servers on GitHub to enterprise teams integrating AI agents into production systems with official MCP endpoints, `ithena-cli` provides the critical visibility you need.
Developers & Community Innovators
Experimenting with community MCP servers from GitHub? Building a novel wrapper for a new API? `ithena-cli` helps you rapidly debug, understand interactions, and accelerate your MCP projects without wrestling with raw logs.
Enterprise Teams & Production Ops
Integrating AI agents with critical business systems via official or custom MCP servers (e.g., in Fintech, SaaS)? Monitor performance, ensure reliability, log interactions for compliance, and manage your production MCP deployments with confidence.
MCP Server Providers
Releasing an official MCP server for your API or service? Provide your users with a recommended observability tool. `ithena-cli` helps them (and you) understand usage patterns, diagnose issues, and improve the overall experience.
Enhancing Developer Productivity
Using MCP to streamline your development workflows, automate tasks like GitHub PR management or Jira updates, or interact with complex codebases? `ithena-cli` provides clarity and helps ensure your AI-powered automations run smoothly.
How `ithena-cli` Delivers MCP Observability
Understanding your MCP interactions is simplified into three straightforward steps:
ithena-cli is a lightweight wrapper for your MCP server command. It transparently intercepts all communication between your AI Host and server—requests, tool calls, responses, and latencies—and securely transmits this data for analysis on the Ithena Platform.
- 1. Wrap & Run
- Simply prefix your existing MCP server start command with `ithena-cli`. No code changes, instant integration.
- 2. Capture & Transmit
- `ithena-cli` automatically intercepts all MCP dialogue—requests, tool calls, responses—and securely transmits it to the Ithena ingestion endpoint, where it's then encrypted and stored for your analysis.
- 3. Analyze & Optimize
- Log in to the Ithena Platform. Visualize traces, monitor performance, debug issues, and gain actionable insights through your dashboard.
Supercharge Your MCP Development
Visualize, Debug, and Optimize Your MCP Interactions
Once `ithena-cli` is monitoring your MCP tools, log in to the Ithena Platform to unlock powerful insights and accelerate your AI agent development:
Trace Full MCP Dialogues
See the complete conversation. Essential for developers debugging novel community servers and for enterprise teams needing detailed logs for production issue resolution and compliance.
Analyze MCP Tool Performance
Identify MCP bottlenecks critical for user experience and system stability. Monitor latency for any server—from experimental builds to high-traffic official endpoints—to optimize your AI agent interactions and meet SLAs.
Effortless MCP Configuration
Easily manage how ithena-cli wraps and monitors your diverse collection of MCP server tools. Standardize observability across all your MCP integrations, from development to production.
Secure and Isolated by Design
Your MCP interaction data, from any server and critical for enterprise trust, is encrypted client-side by `ithena-cli` before transmission and at rest using AES-256-GCM with per-tenant keys, ensuring confidentiality and supporting your security posture.
Audit Trails & Usage Analytics
Gain insights into how AI agents utilize MCP tools, track costs associated with actions, and maintain comprehensive audit logs for security reviews and regulatory compliance.
Security: The Core of Your MCP Observability
Trust and Confidentiality for Your MCP Data
We understand the critical nature of data flowing through Model Context Protocol, especially when interacting with proprietary systems or user information. Ithena is built with a security-first approach to ensure your captured MCP interaction data remains confidential, isolated, and compliant.
Encryption at Rest
The Ithena Platform encrypts sensitive MCP data (like request/response previews) on receipt, before it's ever stored. Your data stays encrypted and secure at rest.
AES-256-GCM Standard
We utilize AES-256-GCM, an industry-standard authenticated encryption algorithm for strong confidentiality and data integrity of your MCP interaction data.
Per-Tenant Encryption Keys
Your MCP data is encrypted with a unique key derived specifically for your account, providing strong cryptographic isolation within the Ithena Platform.
Get MCP Observability in Minutes
Start understanding your AI agent's interactions quickly. Follow these simple steps to integrate `ithena-cli` with your Model Context Protocol setup:
1. Install `ithena-cli`
Use the following command to download and install the latest version (macOS/Linux):
$ curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ithena-one/ithena-cli/main/install.sh | bashFor Windows or other installation options, please refer to the Ithena CLI GitHub Releases page.
2. Authenticate
Link the CLI to your secure Ithena account:
$ ithena-cli authFollow the on-screen prompts to authorize.
3. Configure Wrappers for Your MCP Tools
Define how `ithena-cli` should wrap your MCP server commands in a `.ithena-wrappers.yaml` file. This tells `ithena-cli` how to launch and monitor your specific MCP tool. You can place this file in your project's root directory or a central configuration location.
Option 1: In your project root:
$ touch .ithena-wrappers.yamlOption 2: In a central config directory:
$ mkdir -p ~/.config/ithena && touch ~/.config/ithena/wrappers.yamlUse the interactive builder below to generate example configurations for common MCP server setups. Adapt and paste it into your chosen file.
Interactive Configuration Builder
Available Wrappers:
{ "mcpServers": {}}
Use the buttons to add or remove predefined wrapper configurations. Copy the generated content into your respective project files.
Simple, Transparent Pricing for MCP Observability
Choose the plan that fits your MCP development and monitoring needs. Start for free to debug your personal AI agents, and scale as your team and MCP tool usage grow.\n¹Users refers to human accounts accessing the Ithena dashboard. MCP Server/Agent usage is primarily metered by Logs/Month.
Free
billed monthly
- 5,000 MCP Logs / Month
- 7 Day Log Retention
- 1 User
- Unlimited Wrappers
- Basic MCP Search
- Community Support
Sign Up Free
Perfect for individual developers, exploring MCP, and debugging personal AI agent projects.
Pro
billed monthly
- 100,000 MCP Logs / Month
- 30 Day Log Retention
- 5 Users
- Unlimited Wrappers
- Advanced MCP Search
- Standard Support
Choose Pro
For professionals and teams building and deploying MCP tools, needing robust debugging, performance insights, and reliable monitoring for multiple AI agents
Business
billed monthly
- 1,000,000 MCP Logs / Month
- 1 Year Log Retention
- 10 Users
- Unlimited Wrappers
- Advanced MCP Search
- Priority Support
- SSO & Alerting (Coming Soon)
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For organizations with significant MCP deployments in production, requiring longer data retention, advanced analytics, priority support, and features like future SSO & Alerting to manage their AI operations and meet enterprise compliance needs.