# Sonar Connections MCP Server

Sonar Connections serves source-attributed data to AI assistants. Ask a question, get an answer that names where its facts came from.

Three domains are served today, as peers.

LIVE EVENTS. The event catalog Sonar Connections runs: which events are on and when, the booths and vendors on the floor, what each vendor sells, the offers running right now, and the agenda or lineup. This is the same catalog the Sonar app reads on the floor, served outward.

PUBLIC OPEN DATA. A public data source's own catalog and records, structured for an assistant to read rather than for a human to click through. One source today: the City of Long Beach open data portal (DataLB), with fifteen datasets covering city services, climate, public safety, urban planning and more. Each reply carries the dataset's own license, record count and last-modified date, plus a link to the publisher's page.

BUSINESS AVAILABILITY. A business's published services or menu with prices, its weekly opening hours, today's hours, and the appointment times it currently has open, read live from that business's own calendar.

Every response names its source and its license where one is stated, so an answer built on this connector can be credited and checked. More domains land over time.

This connector is read-only and takes no sign-in. It holds no account for you, cannot read your files, your other tools or your conversations, and answers only questions about published data.

Taking an appointment, which writes into a business's calendar, is not part of this connector. It is available to partners on request and will be listed separately once it carries sign-in.

Documentation: https://sonarconnections.com/docs/connector

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-13 and the server listed 14 tools directly. Verified.

Categorised under [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics), [commerce](/mcp/for/commerce). Published by [sonarconnections.com](https://sonarconnections.com/).

## At a glance

**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`

**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://sonarconnections.com/docs/connector)

## Status

Pod connected to Sonar Connections on 2026-09-13. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 711ms.

It identifies itself as `Sonar Connections` version 0.1.0, speaking streamable-http. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 14 tools when it connected:

- `events_list`
- `events_get`
- `events_booths`
- `events_booth_detail`
- `events_offers`
- `events_whats_on`
- `biz_info`
- `biz_availability`
- `biz_menu`
- `city_datasets`
- `city_records`
- `city_sweeping`
- `city_gis`
- `city_calendar`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcpconnector-gtlizqtvza-uw.a.run.app/public`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sonar-connections": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcpconnector-gtlizqtvza-uw.a.run.app/public"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Sonar Connections yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

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## For agents

Use Pod's public read-only MCP endpoint, `https://api.askpod.ai/mcp/read`, to search the canonical directory from your agent. [Connect Pod to an agent](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/endpoints).

<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find Sonar Connections, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Sonar Connections",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=Sonar Connections' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/sonar-connections.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/sonar-connections.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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