Database / BetterDB Interview questions
What is the purpose of the BetterDB MCP server?
The @betterdb/mcp package exposes 60 tools over the Model Context Protocol so AI coding assistants like Claude Code or Cursor can query monitoring data – slowlogs, metrics, cluster state, client analytics – through natural-language tool calls instead of switching over to the web UI or hand-writing REST API calls.
It runs over stdio with npx @betterdb/mcp, and access is authenticated with a token you create under Settings → MCP Tokens in the monitor UI, so any MCP client you point at that token gets the same view an operator would get logging into the dashboard.
In practice, this means a developer debugging inside their editor can ask an agent something like "why did latency spike on this instance an hour ago" and have it pull slowlog and anomaly data directly, without a context switch to a browser tab.
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