How to Install Elastic Cloud MCP in Claude Code

Official Elastic Cloud integration — search, observability, and analytics across Elasticsearch and Kibana

What Elastic Cloud MCP does

The official Elastic Cloud MCP server gives AI agents access to search, logs, metrics, and analytics on Elastic Cloud. It can query indexes, inspect dashboards, and surface observability alerts. Features: - Search Elasticsearch indexes and run analytics queries - Inspect Kibana dashboards and visualisations - Query logs, metrics, and traces - Manage index templates and ingest pipelines - Set up alerts and anomaly detection jobs - Explore schema mappings and field usage Elastic Cloud MCP is built for teams using Elastic for search and observability who want AI to interact with their deployment safely.

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Installation steps

1Copy the config below
2Open or create .claude/mcp.json in your project root
3Paste inside "mcpServers": {}
4Reload Claude Code

Configuration

File location: .claude/mcp.json (project root) or ~/.claude/mcp.json (global)

.claude/mcp.jsonjson

{
  "elasticCloudMcp": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
      "-y",
      "@elastic/mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
      "ELASTICSEARCH_URL": "https://example.es.amazonaws.com",
      "ELASTICSEARCH_API_KEY": "..."
    }
  }
}

Full server details Open Config Editor

Install in other clients

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For maintainers

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