# monitor by BetterDB-inc MCP Server

BetterDB MCP server - Valkey observability for Claude Code and other MCP clients

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@betterdb/mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**6 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 5.

### Most discussed

### MCP get_info tool ignores section parameter

Description:
The get_info MCP tool accepts a section parameter (e.g. memory, clients), but this value is not passed through in the controller. The implementation calls client.getInfoParsed() without the section argument, causing all INFO sections to be returned regardless of input. Even invalid values are silently ignored.

How to reproduce:
Call get_info({ section: 'memory' })

Expected behavior:
Only the requested section (memory) should be returned

Actual behavior:
All INFO sections are retu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BetterDB-inc/monitor/issues/154) · 2026-05-07 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### feat(semantic-cache): runtime-configurable defaultTtl via __config hash

## Background

The `feature/cache-proposal-data-model---libs-support` branch added periodic refresh of two Valkey hashes so that BetterDB Monitor proposals take effect without a process restart:

- `{name}:__config` → `SemanticCache` threshold (global + per-category)
- `{name}:__tool_policies` → `AgentCache` per-tool TTL

Both are now covered by the `cache_propose_threshold_adjust` and `cache_propose_tool_ttl_adjust` MCP tools.

## Gap

`SemanticCache.defaultTtl` — how long stored entries live i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BetterDB-inc/monitor/issues/147) · 2026-05-04 · closed · 2 comments

### MCP server reports version 0.1.0 instead of 1.2.0

The `McpServer` instance in `packages/mcp/src/index.ts:183` is hardcoded with `version: '0.1.0'`, while the actual package version is `1.2.0`. This causes MCP clients that rely on the server version to receive incorrect information.

**File:** `packages/mcp/src/index.ts:183`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BetterDB-inc/monitor/issues/152) · 2026-05-07 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### MCP update

Review our MCP server for missing functionalities based on recent PRs and everything we've added since the last integration of commands in it.

Suggest new tools for it. We'll discuss them. Then implement them

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## Proposal: tools to add

The server exposes ~50 tools but has no coverage for several recently shipped features (AI observability, forecasting, inference latency, vector search, key analytics). Proposed additions, all read-only:

### AI Observability (biggest gap)
- `ai_list_instan

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BetterDB-inc/monitor/issues/329) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 0 comments

### MCP get_info tool ignores section parameter

The get_info MCP tool accepts a section parameter (e.g. memory, clients), but this value is not passed through in the controller. The implementation calls client.getInfoParsed() without the section argument, causing all INFO sections to be returned regardless of input. Even invalid values are silently ignored

How to reproduce:
Call get_info({ section: 'memory' })

Expected behavior:
Only the requested section (memory) should be returned

Actual behavior:
All INFO sections are returned

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BetterDB-inc/monitor/issues/153) · 2026-05-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for monitor by BetterDB-inc](/mcp/monitor-by-betterdb-inc/issues).

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