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title: "Open House observability announcements: MCP server, AI Notebooks, and ClickStack Cloud"
description: "At Open House, ClickHouse announced three observability updates: ClickStack Cloud entered private preview, AI Notebooks entered beta for Managed ClickStack, and a ClickStack MCP server was introduced in open-source ClickStack. ClickStack Cloud is a fully managed, serverless platform that accepts OpenTelemetry data through a managed endpoint, while Managed ClickStack is generally available for teams controlling collectors, ingestion, compute sizing, schema design, and tuning. AI Notebooks provide a persistent, shareable investigation workspace in which prompts, queries, charts, reasoning steps, findings, branches, intermediate results, and generated queries remain visible and editable. The MCP server exposes the investigative tools used by Notebooks to external agents, routing requests through optimized searches, aggregations, and visualizations rather than relying entirely on ad hoc SQL generation; it can also persist findings in dashboards. Together, the announcements present a choice between managed convenience, operational control, and programmable observability workflows."
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# Open House observability announcements: MCP server, AI Notebooks, and ClickStack Cloud

[Clickhouse](https://yomu.fyi/company/clickhouse) · May 27, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

At Open House, ClickHouse announced three observability updates: ClickStack Cloud entered private preview, AI Notebooks entered beta for Managed ClickStack, and a ClickStack MCP server was introduced in open-source ClickStack. ClickStack Cloud is a fully managed, serverless platform that accepts OpenTelemetry data through a managed endpoint, while Managed ClickStack is generally available for teams controlling collectors, ingestion, compute sizing, schema design, and tuning. AI Notebooks provide a persistent, shareable investigation workspace in which prompts, queries, charts, reasoning steps, findings, branches, intermediate results, and generated queries remain visible and editable. The MCP server exposes the investigative tools used by Notebooks to external agents, routing requests through optimized searches, aggregations, and visualizations rather than relying entirely on ad hoc SQL generation; it can also persist findings in dashboards. Together, the announcements present a choice between managed convenience, operational control, and programmable observability workflows.

## Context

The post describes observability as operationally demanding and incident investigation as non-linear: engineers move among logs, traces, dashboards, deployments, and hypotheses, explore branching theories, and revisit assumptions. It also identifies demand from teams building their own agents, prompts, workflows, and automation around observability data.

## Approach / What changed

ClickHouse introduced ClickStack Cloud as a managed, serverless option; made Managed ClickStack generally available for teams wanting operational control; added AI Notebooks as a persistent, transparent, collaborative workspace; and released a specialized ClickStack MCP server that exposes ClickStack's investigative primitives to external agents. The MCP workflow can generate and persist dashboards summarizing investigations.

## Takeaways

- ClickStack Cloud accepts OpenTelemetry data through a managed endpoint and lets users explore logs, metrics, and traces without directly managing collectors, infrastructure sizing, scaling policies, or schema tuning.
- AI Notebooks keep queries, charts, reasoning steps, intermediate results, and findings visible and editable, while allowing engineers to branch investigations and share the resulting artifacts.
- The ClickStack MCP server is specialized for observability workflows, using structured investigative tools instead of relying entirely on repeated raw SQL generation and enabling external agents to persist findings in dashboards.

**Tags:** [LLMs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/llm), [Monitoring](https://yomu.fyi/topic/monitoring), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source)

- Source: [Clickhouse](https://clickhouse.com/blog/observability-mcp-server-ai-notebooks)
- Source URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/observability-mcp-server-ai-notebooks
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-28T20:00:59.096Z

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