How to integrate Better stack MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK

This guide walks you through connecting Better stack to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Better stack agent that can show uptime percentage for api monitor, create escalation policy for on-call team, list heartbeat availability for last week through natural language commands. This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Better stack account through Composio's Better stack MCP server. Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Better stack to the OpenAI Agents SDK using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Better stack agent that can show uptime percentage for api monitor, create escalation policy for on-call team, list heartbeat availability for last week through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent real control over a Better stack account through Composio's Better stack MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

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TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get and set up your OpenAI and Composio API keys
  • Install the necessary dependencies
  • Initialize Composio and create a Tool Router session for Better stack
  • Configure an AI agent that can use Better stack as a tool
  • Run a live chat session where you can ask the agent to perform Better stack operations

What is OpenAI Agents SDK?

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a lightweight framework for building AI agents that can use tools and maintain conversation state. It provides a simple interface for creating agents with hosted MCP tool support.

Key features include:

  • Hosted MCP Tools: Connect to external services through hosted MCP endpoints
  • SQLite Sessions: Persist conversation history across interactions
  • Simple API: Clean interface with Agent, Runner, and tool configuration
  • Streaming Support: Real-time response streaming for interactive applications

What is the Better stack MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Better stack MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Better Stack account. It provides structured and secure access to your monitoring, logging, and incident management tools, so your agent can perform actions like retrieving uptime metrics, managing escalation policies, checking heartbeat statuses, and organizing log sources on your behalf.

  • Monitor health checks and availability: Let your agent fetch uptime percentages, availability summaries, and incident details for any monitor in your stack.
  • Automated escalation policy management: Instruct your agent to create or delete escalation policies, keeping your incident response workflows up-to-date without manual effort.
  • Heartbeat tracking and organization: Have your agent fetch specific heartbeat data, check heartbeat availability, or group related heartbeats for easier monitoring.
  • Log source grouping and management: Enable your agent to create or delete source groups, helping you organize log streams and maintain a tidy observability structure.
  • Webhook integration setup: Direct your agent to register outgoing webhooks so your stack can notify external systems of important events automatically.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Composio SDK?

Composio's Composio SDK helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Composio SDK

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Composio SDK works

The Composio SDK follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Step by step09 STEPS
1

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Composio API Key and OpenAI API Key
  • Primary know-how of OpenAI Agents SDK
  • A live Better stack project
  • Some knowledge of Python or Typescript
2

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
3

Install dependencies

npm install @composio/openai-agents @openai/agents dotenv

Install the Composio SDK and the OpenAI Agents SDK.

4

Set up environment variables

bash
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...your-api-key
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your-api-key
USER_ID=composio_user@gmail.com

Create a .env file and add your OpenAI and Composio API keys.

5

Import dependencies

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';
What's happening:
  • You're importing all necessary libraries.
  • The Composio and OpenAIAgentsProvider classes are imported to connect your OpenAI agent to Composio tools like Better stack.
6

Set up the Composio instance

dotenv.config();

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});
What's happening:
  • dotenv.config() loads your .env file so COMPOSIO_API_KEY and USER_ID are available as environment variables.
  • Creating a Composio instance using the API Key and OpenAIAgentsProvider class.
7

Create a Tool Router session

// Create Tool Router session for Better stack
const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
  toolkits: ['better_stack'],
});
const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

What is happening:

  • You give the Tool Router the user id and the toolkits you want available. Here, it is only better_stack.
  • The router checks the user's Better stack connection and prepares the MCP endpoint.
  • The returned session.mcp.url is the MCP URL that your agent will use to access Better stack.
  • This approach keeps things lightweight and lets the agent request Better stack tools only when needed during the conversation.
8

Configure the agent

// Configure agent with MCP tool
const agent = new Agent({
  name: 'Assistant',
  model: 'gpt-5',
  instructions:
    'You are a helpful assistant that can access Better stack. Help users perform Better stack operations through natural language.',
  tools: [
    hostedMcpTool({
      serverLabel: 'tool_router',
      serverUrl: mcpUrl,
      headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
      requireApproval: 'never',
    }),
  ],
});
What's happening:
  • We're creating an Agent instance with a name, model (gpt-5), and clear instructions about its purpose.
  • The agent's instructions tell it that it can access Better stack and help with queries, inserts, updates, authentication, and fetching database information.
  • The tools array includes a hostedMcpTool that connects to the MCP server URL we created earlier.
  • The headers object includes the Composio API key for secure authentication with the MCP server.
  • requireApproval: 'never' means the agent can execute Better stack operations without asking for permission each time, making interactions smoother.
9

Start chat loop and handle conversation

// Keep conversation state across turns
const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

// Simple CLI
const rl = readline.createInterface({
  input: process.stdin,
  output: process.stdout,
  prompt: 'You: ',
});

console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

try {
  const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
  console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
} catch (e) {
  console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
}

rl.prompt();

rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
  const text = userInput.trim();

  if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
    console.log('Goodbye!');
    rl.close();
    process.exit(0);
  }

  if (!text) {
    rl.prompt();
    return;
  }

  try {
    const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();
});

rl.on('close', () => {
  console.log('\n👋 Session ended.');
  process.exit(0);
});
What's happening:
  • The program prints a session URL that you visit to authorize Better stack.
  • After authorization, the chat begins.
  • Each message you type is processed by the agent using run().
  • The responses are printed to the console.
  • Typing exit, quit, or q cleanly ends the chat.

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Better stack and OpenAI Agents SDK:

import 'dotenv/config';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIAgentsProvider } from '@composio/openai-agents';
import { Agent, hostedMcpTool, run, OpenAIConversationsSession } from '@openai/agents';
import * as readline from 'readline';

const composioApiKey = process.env.COMPOSIO_API_KEY;
const userId = process.env.USER_ID;

if (!composioApiKey) {
  throw new Error('COMPOSIO_API_KEY is not set. Create a .env file with COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_key');
}
if (!userId) {
  throw new Error('USER_ID is not set');
}

// Initialize Composio
const composio = new Composio({
  apiKey: composioApiKey,
  provider: new OpenAIAgentsProvider(),
});

async function main() {
  // Create Tool Router session
  const session = await composio.create(userId as string, {
    toolkits: ['better_stack'],
  });
  const mcpUrl = session.mcp.url;

  // Configure agent with MCP tool
  const agent = new Agent({
    name: 'Assistant',
    model: 'gpt-5',
    instructions:
      'You are a helpful assistant that can access Better stack. Help users perform Better stack operations through natural language.',
    tools: [
      hostedMcpTool({
        serverLabel: 'tool_router',
        serverUrl: mcpUrl,
        headers: { 'x-api-key': composioApiKey },
        requireApproval: 'never',
      }),
    ],
  });

  // Keep conversation state across turns
  const conversationSession = new OpenAIConversationsSession();

  // Simple CLI
  const rl = readline.createInterface({
    input: process.stdin,
    output: process.stdout,
    prompt: 'You: ',
  });

  console.log('\nComposio Tool Router session created.');
  console.log('\nChat started. Type your requests below.');
  console.log("Commands: 'exit', 'quit', or 'q' to end\n");

  try {
    const first = await run(agent, 'What can you help me with?', { session: conversationSession });
    console.log(`Assistant: ${first.finalOutput}\n`);
  } catch (e) {
    console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
  }

  rl.prompt();

  rl.on('line', async (userInput) => {
    const text = userInput.trim();

    if (['exit', 'quit', 'q'].includes(text.toLowerCase())) {
      console.log('Goodbye!');
      rl.close();
      process.exit(0);
    }

    if (!text) {
      rl.prompt();
      return;
    }

    try {
      const result = await run(agent, text, { session: conversationSession });
      console.log(`\nAssistant: ${result.finalOutput}\n`);
    } catch (e) {
      console.error('Error:', e instanceof Error ? e.message : e, '\n');
    }

    rl.prompt();
  });

  rl.on('close', () => {
    console.log('\nSession ended.');
    process.exit(0);
  });
}

main().catch((err) => {
  console.error('Fatal error:', err);
  process.exit(1);
});

Conclusion

This was a starter code for integrating Better stack MCP with OpenAI Agents SDK to build a functional AI agent that can interact with Better stack.

Key features:

  • Hosted MCP tool integration through Composio's Tool Router
  • SQLite session persistence for conversation history
  • Simple async chat loop for interactive testing
You can extend this by adding more toolkits, implementing custom business logic, or building a web interface around the agent.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Better stack action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Acknowledge Incident

Tool to acknowledge an ongoing incident.

Create Escalation Policy

Creates a new escalation policy for incident management.

Create Heartbeat

Tool to create a new heartbeat monitor for cron jobs and scheduled tasks.

Create Heartbeat Group

Tool to create a new heartbeat group.

Create Incident

Tool to create a new incident and alert the on-call person.

Create Incident Comment

Tool to create a new comment on an incident.

Create Metadata

Tool to create or update a metadata record for a resource.

Create Monitor

Tool to create a new uptime monitor for a URL or service.

Create Monitor Group

Tool to create a new monitor group.

Create On-Call Schedule

Tool to create a new on-call schedule.

Create Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to create a new outgoing webhook integration.

Create Escalation Policy Group

Tool to create a new escalation policy group.

Create Source Group

Tool to create a new source group.

Create Status Page Group

Tool to create a new status page group.

Create Status Page Report

Tool to create a new status page report (incident or maintenance).

Create Status Page Resource

Tool to create a new status page resource.

Create Status Page Section

Tool to create a new section on a status page.

Create Status Update

Tool to create a new status update for an existing status report.

Create Severity Level

Tool to create a new severity level (urgency) for incident management.

Create Urgency Group

Tool to create a new urgency group (severity group) for incident categorization.

Delete Escalation Policy

Tool to delete an escalation policy by ID.

Delete Heartbeat

Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat by ID.

Delete Heartbeat Group

Tool to permanently delete a heartbeat group by ID.

Delete Incident

Tool to permanently delete an existing incident by ID.

Delete Incident Comment

Tool to delete an existing comment from an incident.

Delete Monitor

Tool to permanently delete a monitor by ID from Better Stack Uptime.

Delete Monitor Group

Tool to permanently delete a monitor group by ID from Better Stack Uptime.

Delete On-Call Schedule

Tool to permanently delete an on-call schedule by ID.

Delete Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to delete an outgoing webhook integration by ID.

Delete Escalation Policy Group

Tool to delete an escalation policy group by ID.

Delete Source Group

Tool to permanently delete a source group by ID from Better Stack Telemetry (Logs).

Delete Status Page Group

Tool to delete a status page group by ID.

Delete Status Page Report

Tool to permanently delete a status page report by ID from Better Stack Uptime.

Delete Status Page Resource

Tool to delete an existing resource from a status page.

Delete Status Page Section

Tool to permanently delete a status page section by ID.

Delete Status Update

Tool to delete an existing status update from a status report.

Delete Severity

Tool to delete a severity (urgency) by ID.

Delete Urgency Group

Tool to permanently delete an urgency group (severity group) by ID.

Escalate Incident

Tool to escalate an ongoing incident to a user, team, schedule, policy, or organization.

Get Escalation Policy

Tool to get a single escalation policy by its ID.

Get Heartbeat

Tool to get a single heartbeat by ID.

Get Heartbeat Availability

Tool to retrieve availability summary for a specific heartbeat.

Get Heartbeat Group

Tool to get a single heartbeat group by ID.

Get Incident Comment

Tool to get a single comment from an incident.

Get Monitor

Tool to get a single monitor.

Get Monitor Availability

Tool to return an availability summary for a specific monitor.

Get Monitor Group

Tool to get a single monitor group by ID.

Get Monitor Group's Monitors

Tool to get all monitors belonging to a monitor group.

Get Monitor Response Times

Retrieves response time performance metrics for a specific uptime monitor.

Get On-Call Schedule

Tool to get a single on-call schedule by ID.

Get Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to get a single outgoing webhook integration by ID.

Get Escalation Policy Group

Tool to get a single escalation policy group.

Get Status Page

Tool to get a single status page by ID.

Get Status Page Group

Tool to get a single status page group by ID.

Get Status Page Report

Tool to get a single status page report by ID.

Get Status Page Resource

Tool to get a single status page resource by ID.

Get Status Page Section

Tool to get a single status page section.

Get Status Update

Tool to get a single status update by its ID.

Get Uptime API Token

Tool to retrieve the configured Uptime API token.

Get Severity Level

Tool to get a single severity level (urgency) by ID.

Get Urgency Group

Tool to get a single urgency group (severity group) by ID.

List AWS CloudWatch Integrations

Tool to list all AWS CloudWatch integrations.

List Azure Integrations

Tool to list all Azure integrations.

List Catalog Relations

Tool to list all catalog relations.

List Datadog Integrations

Tool to list all Datadog integrations.

List Elastic Integrations

Tool to list Elastic integrations.

List Email Integrations

Tool to list email integrations.

List Google Monitoring Integrations

Tool to list all Google Monitoring integrations.

List Grafana Integrations

Tool to list all Grafana integrations.

List Heartbeat Groups

Tool to list all heartbeat groups.

List Heartbeats

Tool to list all heartbeats.

List Incidents Comments

Tool to list all comments on an incident.

List Incidents Timeline

Tool to retrieve all timeline events for an incident.

List Incidents Uptime

Tool to list all incidents with optional filtering by monitor, heartbeat, date range, or resolution status.

List Jira Integrations

Tool to list all Jira integrations.

List Metadata

Tool to list all existing metadata.

List Monitor Groups

Tool to list all monitor groups.

List Monitors

Tool to list all monitors.

List New Relic Integrations

Tool to list New Relic integrations.

List On-Call Schedule Events

Tool to list all events for a specific on-call schedule.

List On-Call Schedules

Tool to list all on-call schedules.

List Outgoing Webhook Integrations

Tool to list all outgoing webhook integrations.

List PagerDuty Webhooks

Tool to list PagerDuty integrations.

List Escalation Policies

Tool to list all escalation policies.

List Escalation Policy Groups

Tool to list all escalation policy groups.

List Prometheus Integrations

Tool to list all Prometheus integrations.

List Single Incident

Tool to retrieve detailed information about a single incident by its ID.

List Slack Integrations

Tool to list all Slack integrations.

List Splunk On-Call Integrations

Tool to list all Splunk On-Call integrations.

List Status Page Groups

Tool to list all status page groups.

List Status Pages In Status Page Group

Tool to list status pages within a specific status page group.

List Status Page Reports

Tool to list all reports on a status page.

List Status Page Report Status Updates

Tool to list all status updates for a status page report.

List Status Pages

Tool to list all your status pages.

List Status Page Sections

Tool to list all sections of a specific status page.

List Status Page Resources

Tool to list all resources on a status page.

List Severity Levels

Tool to list all severity levels (urgencies).

List Urgency Groups

Tool to list all urgency groups (severity groups).

Resolve Incident

Tool to resolve an ongoing incident.

Update Escalation Policy

Tool to update an existing escalation policy.

Update Heartbeat

Tool to update an existing heartbeat configuration.

Update Heartbeat Group

Updates an existing heartbeat group's properties.

Update Incident Comment

Tool to update an existing comment on an incident.

Update Monitor

Tool to update an existing uptime monitor configuration.

Update Monitor Group

Updates an existing monitor group's properties.

Update On-Call Schedule

Tool to update an on-call schedule's name.

Update Outgoing Webhook Integration

Tool to update an existing outgoing webhook integration.

Update Escalation Policy Group

Updates an existing escalation policy group's properties.

Update Source Group

Update an existing source group in Better Stack Logs/Telemetry.

Update Status Page Group

Tool to update an existing status page group.

Update Status Page Report

Tool to update an existing status page report.

Update Status Page Resource

Tool to update an existing status page resource.

Update Status Pages

Tool to update an existing status page configuration.

Update Status Page Section

Tool to update an existing status page section.

Update Status Update

Tool to update an existing status update for a status report.

Update Severity Level

Tool to update an existing severity level (urgency) configuration.

Update Urgency Group

Tool to update an existing urgency group (severity group).

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Better stack MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Better stack tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Better stack and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. OpenAI Agents SDK fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Better stack tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Better stack scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Better stack data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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