Monitoring and observability MCP servers connect AI assistants to Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, and similar platforms — letting engineers ask questions about errors, latency spikes, and system health in plain language rather than writing complex query syntax. On-call engineers use them to ask "what changed in the last hour before this error spike?" or "which endpoints are slowest this week?" without context-switching between multiple dashboards. These servers are among the highest-leverage tools for teams that want AI assistance during incident response.