Cloudflare DNS Analytics
Connect AI tools to Cloudflare DNS Analytics to optimize DNS performance and debug issues based on your current setup. The Cloudflare DNS Analytics MCP server gives AI assistants secure access to DNS analytics data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
1. Overview
Cloudflare DNS Analytics is a remote, vendor-hosted MCP server provided by Cloudflare. You connect to it from Cequence AI Gateway; the server uses Streamable HTTP (the standard transport for remote MCP per Cloudflare’s MCP docs).
- Server URL:
https://dns-analytics.mcp.cloudflare.com/mcp - Transport: HTTP (Streamable HTTP)
- Hosted by: Cloudflare
2. Supported authentication types
| Type | Supported | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| OAuth 2.0 | Yes | Required. Uses Dynamic Client Registration (DCR); sign in with your Cloudflare account. |
| API key | No | Not used for this remote MCP server. |
When you add Cloudflare DNS Analytics in Cequence AI Gateway, authentication is handled via OAuth 2.0 with Dynamic Client Registration. You sign in with your Cloudflare account and grant access during the gateway flow.
3. What can you do with this MCP server
With the Cloudflare DNS Analytics MCP server, you can:
- Optimize DNS performance — Use Cloudflare DNS Analytics to tune DNS configuration and improve resolution performance.
- Debug DNS issues — Investigate errors, latency, or availability based on your current DNS setup and metrics.
- Review DNS configuration — Review DNS configurations across all domains in your account.
- Access performance reports — Get comprehensive DNS performance reports and receive recommendations for performance improvements.
- Leverage documentation — Use the MCP server with Cloudflare docs to identify opportunities for improving DNS performance.
- Query and report — Ask questions about DNS traffic, query types, and response times (e.g. DNS report for a zone since a date, zone DNS settings).
4. Prerequisites
Before adding Cloudflare DNS Analytics in Cequence AI Gateway, ensure you have:
- Access to Cequence AI Gateway (e.g. beta.aigateway.cequence.ai)
- A Cloudflare account with DNS (e.g. DNS Firewall or Resolver) and analytics enabled
- A modern browser to complete the OAuth authorization flow
- For OAuth authentication: an auth app with client credentials (client ID and client secret) in your Cloudflare (vendor) account, unless the server supports Dynamic Client Registration (DCR).
5. Example workflows
- “Show DNS query volume and response times for my zones in the last 24 hours.”
- “Identify the top 10 slowest DNS query types and suggest optimizations.”
- “Debug: why are [domain] queries timing out?”
6. Connecting MCP server from Cequence AI Gateway
- Log in to Cequence AI Gateway.
- Choose your tenant.
- Go to App catalogue.
- Filter by Remote MCP server.
- Search for Cloudflare DNS Analytics and then select it.
- Click Create MCP server.
- Choose auth method. If OAuth, you need an auth app with client credentials in your vendor account (see Prerequisites).
- Complete the setup as prompted, select tools, and deploy.
Use the generated MCP server URL in your client as described in the Client Configuration docs. For detailed UI steps and screenshots, see Create a third-party MCP Server.
7. Additional information
- Transport: Streamable HTTP. See Transport.
- Timeout: 30-second timeout for requests.
- Cloudflare MCP: Model Context Protocol (MCP), Build a Remote MCP server.
- Official repository: mcp-server-cloudflare.