Tiger Data MCP Server
Prerequisites
To use this MCP server you first need to install the tiger cli.
The easiest way to do that is via
curl -fsSL https://cli.tigerdata.com | sh
(Other installation methods are availabile).
Then you need to authenticate by running:
tiger auth login
An easy way to install the mcp server with your favorite coding tool is:
tiger mcp install
Available MCP Tools
The MCP server exposes the following tools to AI assistants:
Service Management:
service_list- List all database services in your projectservice_get- Get detailed information about a specific serviceservice_create- Create new database services with configurable resourcesservice_fork- Fork an existing database service to create an independent copyservice_start- Start a stopped database serviceservice_stop- Stop a running database serviceservice_update_password- Update the master password for a service
Database Operations:
db_execute_query- Execute SQL queries against a database service with support for parameterized queries, custom timeouts, and connection pooling
The MCP server automatically uses your CLI authentication and configuration, so no additional setup is required beyond tiger auth login.
Proxied Tools
In addition to the service management tools listed above, the Tiger MCP server also proxies tools from a remote documentation MCP server. This feature provides AI assistants with semantic search capabilities for PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and Tiger Cloud documentation, as well as prompts/guides for various Tiger Cloud features.
The proxied documentation server (pg-aiguide) currently provides the following tools:
get_guide- Retrieve comprehensive guides for TimescaleDB features and best practicessemantic_search_postgres_docs- Search PostgreSQL documentation using natural language queriessemantic_search_tiger_docs- Search Tiger Cloud and TimescaleDB documentation using natural language queries
This proxy connection is enabled by default and requires no additional configuration.
To disable the documentation proxy:
tiger config set docs_mcp false
Server Config
{
"mcpServers": {
"tiger": {
"command": "tiger",
"args": [
"mcp",
"start"
]
}
}
}