Render

deploymenthostingpostgreslogsremote-mcp

Summary

Render's official MCP server — create and inspect web services, static sites, cron jobs, Postgres and key-value instances, pull logs and metrics, and run read-only SQL against a Render-hosted database.

Features

Create web services, static sites, cron jobs, Postgres databases and key-value instances
Read deploy history and trigger deploys that autoDeploy will not catch
Filtered log search with label-value discovery, plus performance metrics per resource
Read-only SQL queries against Render-hosted Postgres
Reconfiguring existing services is intentionally routed to the dashboard, not automated

Installation

Set up this MCP server in your favorite AI agent — copy a ready-made configuration below.

Any MCP-compatible agent

Most agents (Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and more) read a standard mcpServers configuration.

Open your agent's MCP configuration file.
Merge the snippet below into it, filling in the environment variables with your own values.
Restart the agent — the "Render" tools will be available.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "render": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.render.com/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RENDER_API_KEY": "rnd_xxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

Add the server with a single CLI command.

claude mcp add render -e RENDER_API_KEY=rnd_xxxxxxxx -- npx -y mcp-remote https://mcp.render.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Add the server to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "render": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.render.com/mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "RENDER_API_KEY": "rnd_xxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "command": "npx",
  "args": [
    "-y",
    "mcp-remote",
    "https://mcp.render.com/mcp"
  ],
  "env": {
    "RENDER_API_KEY": "rnd_xxxxxxxx"
  }
}

Claude Code, native HTTP transport with OAuth login

{
  "command": "claude",
  "args": [
    "mcp",
    "add",
    "--transport",
    "http",
    "render",
    "https://mcp.render.com/mcp"
  ]
}

Description

Render's MCP server gives an assistant a working view of your Render account: what is deployed, whether it is healthy, why the last deploy failed, and what the database actually contains. It is the difference between an agent that can only edit code and one that can check whether the deploy of that code worked.

Tools

Workspaces — list_workspaces, select_workspace, get_selected_workspace. Every resource tool also accepts an explicit workspaceId, which is the recommended pattern: it survives MCP reconnects and transport-session changes, where the implicitly selected workspace does not.
Services — list_services, get_service, create_web_service, create_static_site, create_cron_job, update_environment_variables.
Deployments — list_deploys, get_deploy, trigger_deploy (for deploys that autoDeploy will not pick up).
Logs — list_logs with filters, plus list_log_label_values to discover what those filters can match.
Metrics — get_metrics across services, Postgres databases and key-value stores.
Postgres — list_postgres_instances, get_postgres, create_postgres, and query_render_postgres for read-only SQL.
Key Value — list_key_value, get_key_value, create_key_value.

A deliberate limitation

Direct updates to an existing web service, static site or cron job are not supported. update_web_service, update_static_site and update_cron_job return a link to the settings page in the Render Dashboard instead. Creating resources and changing environment variables is in scope; silently reconfiguring a running service is not.

Connecting

Remote endpoint at https://mcp.render.com/mcp, authenticated with a RENDER_API_KEY or via OAuth. Documented clients include Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Zed, Gemini CLI, Crush and Warp.

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