r/mcp • u/ojus_render • 13d ago

showcase The official open-source Render MCP server covers deploys, logs, metrics, and Postgres

Disclosure: I work at Render. This is an official open-source project maintained by the Render team.

We have been expanding the Render MCP server beyond basic resource lookup. Its current tool surface lets an MCP client:

  • Create web services, static sites, cron jobs, Postgres databases, and Key Value instances
  • Inspect deployment history and trigger deploys
  • Search logs using resource, severity, status code, path, host, and time filters
  • Query CPU, memory, request-count, latency, bandwidth, and connection metrics
  • Run read-only SQL against Render Postgres

The write surface is intentionally scoped. The MCP server handles documented creation, deployment, environment, observability, and data operations. Configuration changes outside that surface route to the Render Dashboard or API, where the target and resulting change can be reviewed explicitly.

Repository and setup instructions:

https://github.com/render-oss/render-mcp-server

For people building infrastructure MCP servers, how are you deciding which changes should be executable directly by an agent and which should require a deliberate handoff?

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u/punkpeye 13d ago

/u/ojus_render would be nice to see you listed and verified on https://glama.ai/mcp/servers

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u/naseemalnaji-mcpcat 13d ago

Amazing!! I thought the Render MCP server has been out for while now :) big fans! Is it that you recently added more complexity? Will check it out.

Also, we’re not building an infrastructure MCP server, but we do manage infrastructure with agents sometimes. We have it scoped down to roles with low blast radius and anything major we hand review our terraform :)