How to Install Upstash MCP in Cursor
Serverless Redis and Kafka — manage caches, rate limits, and queues via AI with pay-per-use pricing
What Upstash MCP does
Upstash MCP gives AI agents access to serverless Redis and Kafka — perfect for managing caches, rate limiting, queues, and real-time event streaming in serverless applications. Features: Redis: - Get, set, and delete keys with full TTL support - Work with all Redis data types: strings, lists, hashes, sets, sorted sets - Inspect key patterns and database statistics - Manage multiple databases across regions - Flush databases and manage persistence Kafka: - Create and manage topics - Inspect consumer group lag - Monitor throughput and message rates Particularly valuable for applications using Context7 MCP (also by Upstash) — manage the Redis cache powering your documentation layer directly from Claude. Pay-per-request pricing — zero idle cost. Perfect for AI workloads that run intermittently.
Installation steps
- 1Copy the config below
- 2Open or create .cursor/mcp.json
- 3Paste inside "mcpServers": {}
- 4Restart Cursor or reload the window
Configuration
File location: .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global)
{
"upstashMcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@upstash/mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL": "https://...",
"UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN": "your_token"
}
}
}Install in other clients
For maintainers
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