How to install monitor in Windsurf

BetterDB MCP server - Valkey observability for Claude Code and other MCP clients

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Steps

1Install Node.js 18 or newer (for npx)
2Open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json
3Add the entry below. If the file already has "mcpServers", add just the inner entry
4Refresh the MCP servers list in Windsurf's Cascade panel

Configuration

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "monitor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@betterdb/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Environment variable	Required	What it is
BETTERDB_URL	No	URL of the BetterDB monitor instance
BETTERDB_TOKENsecret	No	MCP authentication token generated from the BetterDB Settings page
BETTERDB_INSTANCE_ID	No	Instance ID to target when using multi-instance cloud deployments

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