Azure MCP Server Extension for Visual Studio Code
Easily bring the power of Model Context Protocol (MCP) to your Azure projects in VS Code.
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Overview
Azure MCP Server adds smart, context-aware AI tools right inside VS Code to help you work more efficiently with Azure resources. The Azure MCP Server supercharges your agents with Azure context across 28 different Azure services.
Getting Started
Follow these simple steps to start using Azure MCP in VS Code:
Install the Extension
Start (or Auto-Start) the MCP Server
VS Code (version 1.103 or above): You can now configure MCP servers to start automatically using the chat.mcp.autostart setting, instead of manually restarting them after configuration changes.
Enable Autostart
Open Settings in VS Code.
Search for chat.mcp.autostart.
Select newAndOutdated to automatically start MCP servers without manual refresh.
You can also set this from the refresh icon tooltip in the Chat view, which also shows which servers will auto-start.
Manual Start (if autostart is off)
Open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P).
Run MCP: List Servers.
Select Azure MCP Server ext, then click Start Server.
Check That It's Running
- Go to the Output tab in VS Code.
- Look for log messages confirming the server started successfully.
(Optional) Configure tools and behavior
Full options: control how tools are exposed and whether mutations are allowed:
// Server Mode: collapse per service (default), single tool, or expose every tool
"azureMcp.serverMode": "namespace", // one of: "single" | "namespace" (default) | "all"
// Filter which namespaces to expose
"azureMcp.enabledServices": ["storage", "keyvault"],
// Run the server in read-only mode (prevents write operations)
"azureMcp.readOnly": false
Changes take effect after restarting the Azure MCP server from the MCP: List Servers view. (Step 2)
You’re all set! Azure MCP Server is now ready to help you work smarter with Azure resources in VS Code.
What can you do with the Azure MCP Server?
Here are some cool prompts you can try across our supported Azure services:
🔎 Azure AI Search
- "What indexes do I have in my Azure AI Search service 'mysvc'?"
- "Let's search this index for 'my search query'"
⚙️ Azure App Configuration
- "List my App Configuration stores"
- "Show my key-value pairs in App Config"
📦 Azure Container Registry (ACR)
- "List all my Azure Container Registries"
- "Show me my container registries in the 'myproject' resource group"
- "List all my Azure Container Registry repositories"
☸️ Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- "List my AKS clusters in my subscription"
- "Show me all my Azure Kubernetes Service clusters"
📊 Azure Cosmos DB
- "Show me all my Cosmos DB databases"
- "List containers in my Cosmos DB database"
🧮 Azure Data Explorer
- "Get Azure Data Explorer databases in cluster 'mycluster'"
- "Sample 10 rows from table 'StormEvents' in Azure Data Explorer database 'db1'"
⚡ Azure Managed Lustre
- "List the Azure Managed Lustre clusters in resource group 'my-resourcegroup'"
- "How many IP Addresses I need to create a 128 TiB cluster of AMLFS 500?"
📊 Azure Monitor
- "Query my Log Analytics workspace"
🔧 Azure Resource Management
- "List my resource groups"
- "List my Azure CDN endpoints"
- "Help me build an Azure application using Node.js"
🗄️ Azure SQL Database
- "Show me details about my Azure SQL database 'mydb'"
- "List all databases in my Azure SQL server 'myserver'"
- "List all firewall rules for my Azure SQL server 'myserver'"
- "List all elastic pools in my Azure SQL server 'myserver'"
- "List Active Directory administrators for my Azure SQL server 'myserver'"
💾 Azure Storage
- "List my Azure storage accounts"
- "Get details about my storage account 'mystorageaccount'"
- "Create a new storage account in East US with Data Lake support"
- "Show me the tables in my Storage account"
- "Get details about my Storage container"
- "Upload my file to the blob container"
- "List paths in my Data Lake file system"
- "List files and directories in my File Share"
- "Send a message to my storage queue"
The Azure MCP Server provides tools for interacting with the following Azure services
🔎 Azure AI Search (search engine/vector database)
- List Azure AI Search services
- List indexes and look at their schema and configuration
- Query search indexes
⚙️ Azure App Configuration
- List App Configuration stores
- Manage key-value pairs
- Handle labeled configurations
- Lock/unlock configuration settings
🛡️ Azure Best Practices
- Get secure, production-grade Azure SDK best practices for effective code generation.
🖥️ Azure CLI Extension
- Execute Azure CLI commands directly
- Support for all Azure CLI functionality
📦 Azure Container Registry (ACR)
- List Azure Container Registries and repositories in a subscription
- Filter container registries and repositories by resource group
- JSON output formatting
- Cross-platform compatibility
📊 Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL Databases)
- List Cosmos DB accounts
- List and query databases
- Manage containers and items
- Execute SQL queries against containers
🧮 Azure Data Explorer
- List Azure Data Explorer clusters
- List databases
- List tables
- Get schema for a table
- Sample rows from a table
- Query using KQL
🐬 Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- List and query databases.
- List and get schema for tables.
- List, get configuration and get parameters for servers.
🐘 Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server
- List and query databases.
- List and get schema for tables.
- List, get configuration and get/set parameters for servers.
🛠️ Azure Developer CLI (azd) Extension
- Execute Azure Developer CLI commands directly
- Support for template discovery, template initialization, provisioning and deployment
- Cross-platform compatibility
🚀 Azure Deploy
- Generate Azure service architecture diagrams from source code
- Create a deploy plan for provisioning and deploying the application
- Get the application service log for a specific azd environment
- Get the bicep or terraform file generation rules for an application
- Get the GitHub pipeline creation guideline for an application
🧮 Azure Foundry
- List Azure Foundry models
- Deploy foundry models
- List foundry model deployments
- List knowledge indexes
☁️ Azure Function App
- List Azure Function Apps
- Get details for a specific Function App
🔑 Azure Key Vault
- List, create, and import certificates
- List and create keys
- List and create secrets
☸️ Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- List Azure Kubernetes Service clusters
📦 Azure Load Testing
- List, create load test resources
- List, create load tests
- Get, list, (create) run and rerun, update load test runs
🚀 Azure Managed Grafana
- List Azure Managed Grafana
⚡ Azure Managed Lustre
- List Azure Managed Lustre filesystems
- Get the number of IP addresses required for a specific SKU and size of Azure Managed Lustre filesystem
🏪 Azure Marketplace
- Get details about Marketplace products
📈 Azure Monitor
Log Analytics
- List Log Analytics workspaces
- Query logs using KQL
- List available tables
Health Models
Metrics
- Query Azure Monitor metrics for resources with time series data
- List available metric definitions for resources
🏥 Azure Service Health
- Get the availability status for a specific resource
- List availability statuses for all resources in a subscription or resource group
⚙️ Azure Native ISV Services
- List Monitored Resources in a Datadog Monitor
🛡️ Azure Quick Review CLI Extension
- Scan Azure resources for compliance related recommendations
📊 Azure Quota
- List available regions
- Check quota usage
🔴 Azure Redis Cache
- List Redis Cluster resources
- List databases in Redis Clusters
- List Redis Cache resources
- List access policies for Redis Caches
🏗️ Azure Resource Groups
🎭 Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
🚌 Azure Service Bus
- Examine properties and runtime information about queues, topics, and subscriptions
🗄️ Azure SQL Database
- Show database details and properties
- List the details and properties of all databases
- List SQL server firewall rules
🗄️ Azure SQL Elastic Pool
- List elastic pools in SQL servers
🗄️ Azure SQL Server
- List Microsoft Entra ID administrators for SQL servers
💾 Azure Storage
- List and create Storage accounts
- Get detailed information about specific Storage accounts
- Manage blob containers and blobs
- Upload files to blob containers
- List and query Storage tables
- List paths in Data Lake file systems
- Get container properties and metadata
- List files and directories in File Shares
📋 Azure Subscription
- Get secure, production-grade Azure Terraform best practices for effective code generation and command execution
🖥️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- List Azure Virtual Desktop host pools
- List session hosts in host pools
- List user sessions on a session host
📊 Azure Workbooks
- List workbooks in resource groups
- Create new workbooks with custom visualizations
- Update existing workbook configurations
- Get workbook details and metadata
- Delete workbooks when no longer needed
🏗️ Bicep
- Get the Bicep schema for specific Azure resource types
🏗️ Cloud Architect
- Design Azure cloud architectures through guided questions
For the complete list of supported services and sample prompts, see our full documentation.
Complete List of Supported Azure Services
The Azure MCP Server provides tools for interacting with 28 Azure service areas:
- 🔎 Azure AI Search - Search engine/vector database operations
- ⚙️ Azure App Configuration - Configuration management
- 🛡️ Azure Best Practices - Secure, production-grade guidance
- 🖥️ Azure CLI Extension - Direct Azure CLI command execution
- 📦 Azure Container Registry (ACR) - Container registry management
- 📊 Azure Cosmos DB - NoSQL database operations
- 🧮 Azure Data Explorer - Analytics queries and KQL
- 🐘 Azure Database for PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL database management
- 🐬 Azure Database for MySQL - MySQL database management
- 🛠️ Azure Developer CLI (azd) - Template and deployment management
- ⚡ Azure Functions - Function App management
- 🧮 Azure Foundry - AI model management, AI model deployment, and knowledge index management
- 🚀 Azure Managed Grafana - Monitoring dashboards
- 🗃️ Azure Managed Lustre - High-performance Lustre filesystem operations
- 🔑 Azure Key Vault - Secrets, keys, and certificates
- ☸️ Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Container orchestration
- 📦 Azure Load Testing - Performance testing
- 🏪 Azure Marketplace - Product discovery
- 📈 Azure Monitor - Logging, metrics, and health monitoring
- 🏥 Azure Service Health - Resource health status and availability
- ⚙️ Azure Native ISV Services - Third-party integrations
- 🛡️ Azure Quick Review CLI - Compliance scanning
- 🔴 Azure Redis Cache - In-memory data store
- 🏗️ Azure Resource Groups - Resource organization
- 🎭 Azure RBAC - Access control management
- 🚌 Azure Service Bus - Message queuing
- 🗄️ Azure SQL Database - Relational database management
- 🗄️ Azure SQL Elastic Pool - Database resource sharing
- 🗄️ Azure SQL Server - Server administration
- 💾 Azure Storage - Blob, table, file, and data lake storage
- 📋 Azure Subscription - Subscription management
- 🏗️ Azure Terraform Best Practices - Infrastructure as code guidance
- 🖥️ Azure Virtual Desktop - Virtual desktop infrastructure
- 📊 Azure Workbooks - Custom visualizations
- 🏗️ Bicep - Azure resource templates
- 🏗️ Cloud Architect - Guided architecture design
Documentation
Feedback & Support
- Check the Troubleshooting guide to diagnose and resolve common issues with the Azure MCP Server.
- We're building this in the open. Your feedback is much appreciated, and will help us shape the future of the Azure MCP server.
Contributing
Want to contribute?
Check out our contribution guide to get started.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
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