Traefik Labs has introduced the Traefik MCP Server, a read-only Model Context Protocol server that grounds AI agents in three sources at once: what's valid, from the exact schema of the Traefik release in use; what's running, from the gateway's live configuration; and what's happening, from the traces, metrics, and logs in Datadog, the Grafana stack, or Dash0.
Traefik Labs has introduced the Traefik MCP Server, a read-only Model Context Protocol server for AI agents.
It grounds agents in three sources: what's valid from the exact release schema, what's running from live configuration, and what's happening from telemetry.
Initial telemetry support covers Datadog, Grafana Labs and Dash0.
The server works in any MCP client engineers already use, from Day 0 setup to Day 2 operations.
It ships with a catalog of the deployed Traefik Proxy and Traefik Hub release, so it also works on Day 0 and in air-gapped clusters.
The Traefik MCP Server is generally available today on Docker Hub and GitHub Container Registry.
"Having an MCP server is not the news. What an agent can do with it is," said Sudeep Goswami, CEO of Traefik Labs. "Our customers run their gateways for years, and every question in that time is as much about configuration as about telemetry. This server gives an agent both, from the first route it writes to the incident it explains years later, and because it is read-only, platform teams can finally let an agent near the ingress layer."
"Telemetry can tell you which route answered. The configuration tells you why that route was chosen," said Emile Vauge, founder and CTO of Traefik Labs. "The agent knows every Traefik concept the way Traefik defines it, and it validates each line against that schema before it shows you one. An assistant that is right about gateways is a demo. An assistant that is right about your gateway is a colleague."
AI agents can already write configuration and read telemetry, and for simple problems that is enough. However, a configuration that looks right is not the same as one the running release accepts, and a wrong answer that looks right is the one that gets applied. The Traefik MCP Server joins configuration and telemetry so an agent sees what happened and why in one view.
Read what's running: Routers, services, middlewares, health checks, and certificates from the running Traefik Proxy or Traefik Hub gateway, plus APIs, plans, and applications on Traefik Hub API Management, and on Traefik Hub AI Gateway, the AI routes, models, guards, token budgets and quotas.
Join it with what's happening: Traces, metrics, and access logs from Datadog, Grafana, or Dash0, each matched to the router, middleware, or service that produced it. That includes AI traffic: the OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic convention series the gateway emits and prices itself, by model, provider, and application.
Validate against what's valid: The server ships with a catalog of the deployed Traefik Proxy and Traefik Hub release, so the agent writes using that catalog and validates every configuration before showing it to anyone. Applying it stays with the team's own process: GitOps, CI, or a person.
"Configuration problems are among the hardest runtime issues to track down because the symptom rarely points to the cause. With the telemetry and the Traefik configuration in front of the same agent, that cause is finally in view," said Uday Tennety, Head of Technology Partnerships at Datadog.
"We built Dash0 on OpenTelemetry so that AI agents could reason over telemetry without translation. The Traefik MCP Server is the natural counterpart: it adds the gateway's live configuration and a schema to validate against, so an agent explains a routing decision instead of guessing at it," said Michele Mancioppi, Chief Architect at Dash0.
About Traefik Labs
Traefik Labs is the creator of Traefik Proxy, the world's most widely deployed cloud-native application proxy, and Traefik Hub, the integrated platform for API Gateway, AI Gateway, and API management. With over 3.5 billion Docker Hub downloads and 65,000 GitHub stars, Traefik powers application networking for organizations worldwide.
