Upstash MCP

We provide an open source Upstash MCP to use natural language to interact with your Upstash account, e.g.:

• “Create a new Redis database in us-east-1”
• “List my databases”
• “Show all keys starting with “user:” in my users-db”
• “Create a backup”
• “Show me the throughput spikes for the last 7 days”

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Quickstart

1. Go to Cursor Settings > Features > MCP and click + Add new global MCP server. This opens a file called mcp.json.
2. Copy and paste the following command into the mcp.json file:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "upstash": {
         "command": "npx",
         "args": [
           "-y",
           "@upstash/mcp-server",
           "run",
           "<UPSTASH_EMAIL>",
           "<UPSTASH_API_KEY>"
         ]
       }
     }
   }
   

3. Replace <UPSTASH_EMAIL> with the email you use to login to Upstash
4. Replace <UPSTASH_API_KEY> with your account API key. Create one at Account > Management API > Create API key.
5. Cursor now recognizes the Upstash MCP server and all available tools 🎉

To try it out, open the Cursor Agentic Chat. Cursor can now interact with our databases and will automatically use the MCP for Redis-related tasks like:

• Seeding data
• Querying databases
• Creating new databases
• Managing backups
• Analyzing performance metrics

For example, you can now ask Cursor to “add ten users to my Redis database”.