Azure MCP: Documentation

Connection

npx -y @azure/mcp@latest server start (stdio). Authorization runs through an already-completed az login (interactive or browser-based) or a service principal with AZURE_CLIENT_ID/AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET/AZURE_TENANT_ID env vars. Requirements: Node.js 18+, the Azure CLI installed for interactive login. Ready-made configs for VS Code, Claude Desktop and other MCP clients are in the github.com/microsoft/mcp README.

Tools

The server groups tools by Azure service (44+ of them), for example:

• Compute and containers — App Service, AKS, Container Apps, Functions.
• Data — Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Storage (blob/queue/table), PostgreSQL.
• Security — Key Vault (secrets, certificates, keys), RBAC.
• Observability — Monitor (logs, metrics, alerts), Application Insights.
• Network and identity — Virtual Network, Entra ID (basic operations).

The full, current list of services and tools is in the repo's docs, since coverage keeps expanding.

Agent flow

"What secrets are in prod-vault Key Vault?", "restart the my-app web app and show its logs", "how many resources are in the rg-production group?", "show CPU metrics for the AKS cluster over the last hour".

Pricing

The MCP server is free (open source); Azure resources are billed as usual, at standard Microsoft rates.