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Hono Telescope MCP server

Lets your AI read your app's recent errors, requests, logs and slow queries while you debug.

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Hono Telescope is a debugging dashboard for web apps built with Hono. It records what happens inside your app, and the same address also works as an MCP server. That means your AI assistant can read those records directly instead of you copying and pasting error messages into the chat.

What is an MCP server? The 30-second version

On its own, your AI can only chat with you. An MCP server is a small helper program that gives your AI a new skill or a connection to an app or service. This one connects your AI to Hono Telescope, which is watching your running app. So when you ask about a bug, the AI can look up the actual error, the request that caused it, and the database queries that ran, all by itself.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about your app, like why a page is failing. The AI uses this helper to ask Hono Telescope for the recent records. Telescope answers with the exceptions, requests, logs and queries it captured while your app was running. The AI reads that and explains what went wrong. You never have to paste a stack trace again.

Flow diagram: you ask your AI “Why is my app failing?”, on your own computer the Hono Telescope MCP server works with your app's logs, and you get back plain chat explanation.

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What you can do with it

See what just failed, with the request and logs around it
List recent requests and filter them by status code or how long they took
Open one request in full, with every log line and query inside it
Find the slowest database queries and which request ran them
Get a quick count of how many entries of each type exist
Spot requests that returned an error status without throwing an exception

Try asking your AI

“What errors happened in my app in the last few minutes?”
“Show me the slowest database queries and which requests they came from”
“List requests that took longer than 2 seconds”
“Show me the full detail of the request that failed with a 500”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in plain chat: a list of exceptions with their requests, a list of requests with status and duration, or one request shown in full with its logs and queries. Numbers come back for stats and timings. Nothing is changed in your app, because all the tools only read.

Before you start

What you need

A Hono app that is already running with Hono Telescope installed and mounted
An MCP client such as Claude Code or Cursor, or the npx bridge for editors that cannot use a URL
Node.js if you use the npx bridge
Login details if your dashboard is protected with basic auth

Good to know

The MCP endpoint exposes the same private data as the dashboard, including request and response bodies, headers and SQL, so protect it with dashboard.auth and never leave it open in production.

Install it with your AI

Add Hono Telescope MCP server to your AI, no technical skills needed

You don't install anything by hand. You copy one prompt, paste it into an AI that can work on your computer, and it checks, installs and connects the server for you, asking you when it needs something.

Sign in to get the install prompt

Members get a ready-made prompt that lets the Claude desktop app check Hono Telescope MCP server, install it and connect it for them, step by step. You don't need any technical skills: you copy, paste and answer a few questions. Your connected AI can also find and install any of the 4,066 MCP servers here for you.