# MCP Tooling & Remote Server

Covers connecting to PagerDuty's hosted remote MCP server endpoint, including authentication and a sample VS Code configuration.

If you're looking to use MCP with PagerDuty, you've come to the right place!

MCP (or [Model Context Protocol]) is designed to allow agent-based clients to discover and use tools for
performing complex interactions via an API, based on [JSON-RPC].

PagerDuty's MCP server allows you to fetch and manage information in your PagerDuty account.

## Remote MCP Server

You can call our [Remote MCP Server][MCP API Reference]. This supports the same authentication methods as the REST API,
including API tokens and OAuth -- see our [authentication documentation] for more information. 

Key URLs:

- MCP Base URL: `https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp`
- OAuth Metadata: `https://identity.pagerduty.com/global/oauth/anonymous/.well-known/openid-configuration`

You can see the full list of tools by calling the `list/tools` method.

### Sample configuration

Here is a sample MCP configuration for Microsoft Visual Studio Code:

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pagerduty-mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pagerduty.com/mcp",
      "type": "http",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Token token=${input:pagerduty-api-key}"
      }
    }
  },
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pagerduty-api-key",
      "description": "PagerDuty API Key",
      "password": true
    }
  ]
}
```

## Resources

- [PagerDuty MCP API Reference][MCP API Reference]
- [Model Context Protocol] documentation from Anthropic
- [JSON-RPC] documentation

  [Model Context Protocol]: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic
  [JSON-RPC]: https://www.jsonrpc.org/
  [authentication documentation]: /developer/authentication
  [MCP API Reference]: /developer/api/reference/mcp/pagerduty-mcp-api/mcp-root