How to structure traces across the JSON-RPC transport and individual tool executions without blowing up your log storage bills.
Integrating OpenTelemetry with Model Context Protocol servers requires understanding the boundary between the transport protocol (stdio, SSE, or Streamable HTTP) and application-level tool execution.
In this guide, we show how ContextPulse bridges standard OTel conventions with MCP-specific attributes like client name, session depth, and workflow outcome tags.
A practical runbook for diagnosing MCP outages, authorization failures, tool errors, retry loops, latency regressions, and incomplete agent workflows.
Why an MCP server should not forward client tokens to downstream APIs, and how to preserve resource boundaries, authorization, and accountability.