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Quick Start

Get the PagerDuty MCP Server running in your AI client in under 5 minutes.

Step 1: Get Your API Token​

Generate a PagerDuty User API Token — see Authentication for instructions.

Step 2: Add to Your MCP Client​

Choose your client:

Cursor​

Add to .cursor/mcp.json in your project or ~/.cursor/mcp.json globally:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagerduty": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["pagerduty-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PAGERDUTY_USER_API_KEY": "your-api-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop​

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pagerduty": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["pagerduty-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PAGERDUTY_USER_API_KEY": "your-api-token-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 3: Verify​

Restart your MCP client. You should see the PagerDuty tools available. Test with a simple query:

"List my open PagerDuty incidents"

Next Steps​