Bring Airbrake
to VS Code Copilot
Learn how to connect Airbrake to VS Code Copilot and start using 10 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Airbrake MCP Server?
Connect your Airbrake account to any AI agent and manage your entire error monitoring workflow through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Project Management — List all monitored projects and fetch detailed project configuration
- Error Group Analysis — List error groups by project with occurrence counts, severity, and last-seen timestamps
- Deep Error Inspection — Inspect individual error groups with full stack traces, affected users, and frequency data
- Error Notices — List individual error occurrences within a group and report custom errors for tracking
- Deployment Tracking — List all tracked Installments and record new releases with version and environment info
- Environment Overview — View all configured environments (production, staging, development) per project
- Health Check — Verify API connectivity and account status
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Enter your API Key from your Airbrake account settings
3. Start monitoring errors from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
Who is this for?
- Engineering Teams — investigate error spikes and review stack traces without leaving the code editor
- DevOps — track deployments and correlate releases with error rates
- QA Teams — monitor error groups across environments and report custom test failures
Built-in capabilities (10)
Verify API connectivity
Get error group details
Get project details
List deployments
List environments
List error groups
List error notices
List all projects
Report an error notice
Track a deployment
Why VS Code Copilot?
GitHub Copilot Agent mode brings Airbrake data directly into your VS Code workflow. With a project-scoped config, the entire team shares access to 10 tools. Copilot queries live data, generates typed code, and writes tests from actual API responses, all without leaving the editor.
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VS Code is used by over 70% of developers. adding MCP tools to Copilot means your team can leverage external data without leaving their primary editor
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Project-scoped MCP configs (
.vscode/mcp.json) let you commit server configurations to your repository, ensuring the entire team shares the same tool access - —
Copilot's Agent mode integrates MCP tools seamlessly with file editing, terminal commands, and workspace search in a single agentic loop
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GitHub's enterprise compliance and audit features extend to MCP tool usage, providing visibility into how AI interacts with external services
Airbrake in VS Code Copilot
Airbrake and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Airbrake to VS Code Copilot through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Airbrake in VS Code Copilot
The Airbrake MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 10 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in VS Code Copilot only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.

* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Airbrake for VS Code Copilot
Every tool call from VS Code Copilot to the Airbrake MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can my AI show me the most recent error groups for a project?
Yes. Use the list_error_groups tool with the project ID. The agent returns all error groups with occurrence counts, severity levels, and the last time each error was seen.
How do I track a Installment through the AI?
Use the track_Install tool with the project ID, version string, and environment name. The agent records the Installment in Airbrake so you can correlate it with error rate changes.
Can I report a custom error to Airbrake via my AI agent?
Yes. The report_notice tool sends a custom error with a type and message to any project. This is useful for tracking non-exception events or test failures.
Which VS Code version supports MCP?
MCP support requires VS Code 1.99 or later with the GitHub Copilot extension. Ensure both are updated to the latest version. Older versions of Copilot may not expose the Agent mode toggle.
How do I switch to Agent mode?
Open the Copilot Chat panel and look for two mode options: "Ask" and "Agent". Click "Agent" to enable autonomous tool calling. In Ask mode, Copilot provides conversational answers but cannot invoke MCP tools.
Can I restrict which MCP tools Copilot can access?
Yes. VS Code shows a tool consent dialog before any MCP tool is invoked for the first time. You can also configure tool access policies at the organization level through GitHub Copilot settings.
Does MCP work in VS Code Remote or Codespaces?
Yes. MCP servers configured via .vscode/mcp.json work in Remote SSH, WSL, and GitHub Codespaces environments. The MCP connection is established from the remote host, so ensure the server URL is accessible from that environment.
MCP tools not available
Ensure you are in Agent mode in Copilot Chat. MCP tools only appear in Agent mode.
