Googleapis MCP Server

com.googleapis.compute/mcp

answering

Googleapis is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 29 tools.

Provides capabilities that let LLM agents perform a range of infrastructure management tasks.

Uptime history 45 hours of history

45 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

820 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 29

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

instance

create_instance

Create a new Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. If machine_type is not provided, it defaults to `e2-medium`. If image_project and image_family are not provided, it defaults to `debian-12` image from `debian-cloud` project. guest_accelerator and maintenance_policy can be optionally provided. Proceed only if there is no error in response and the status of the operation is `DONE` without any errors. To get details of the operation, use the `get_zone_operation` tool.

delete_instance

Delete a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. Proceed only if there is no error in response and the status of the operation is `DONE` without any errors. To get details of the operation, use the `get_zone_operation` tool.

get_instance_basic_info

Get basic information about a Compute Engine VM instance, including its name, ID, status, machine type, creation timestamp, and attached guest accelerators. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input.

get_instance_group_manager_basic_info

Get basic information about a Compute Engine managed instance group (MIG), including its name, ID, instance template, base instance name, target size, target stopped size, target suspended size, status and creation timestamp. Requires project, zone, and MIG name as input.

get_instance_template_basic_info

Get basic information about a Compute Engine instance template, including its name, ID, description, machine type, region, and creation timestamp. Requires project and instance template name as input.

get_instance_template_properties

Get instance properties of a Compute Engine instance template. This includes properties such as description, tags, machine type, network interfaces, disks, metadata, service accounts, scheduling options, labels, guest accelerators, reservation affinity, and shielded/confidential instance configurations. Requires project and instance template name as input.

list_instance_attached_disks

Lists the disks attached to a Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. For each attached disk, the response includes details such as kind, type, mode, saved state, source, device name, index, boot, initialize parameters, auto delete, licenses,, interface, guest OS features, disk encryption key, disk size, shielded instance initial state, force attach, and architecture. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input.

list_instance_group_managers

Lists Compute Engine managed instance groups (MIGs). Details for each MIG include name, ID, instance template, base instance name, target size, target stopped size, target suspended size, status and creation timestamp. Requires project and zone as input.

list_instance_templates

Lists Compute Engine instance templates. Details for each instance template include name, ID, description, machine type, region, and creation timestamp. Requires project as input.

set_instance_machine_type

Sets the machine type for a stopped Google Compute Engine instance to the specified machine type. Requires project, zone, instance name and machine type as input. Proceed only if there is no error in response and the status of the operation is `DONE` without any errors. To get details of the operation, use the `get_zone_operation` tool.

commitment

get_commitment_basic_info

Get basic information about a Compute Engine Commitment, including its name, ID, status, plan, type, resources, and creation, start and end timestamps. Requires project, region, and commitment name as input.

list_commitment_reservations

Lists reservations for a Compute Engine Commitment. Returns reservation details including name, ID, status, creation timestamp, specific reservation properties like machine type, guest accelerators and local SSDs, aggregate reservation properties like VM family and reserved resources, commitment and linked commitments, sharing settings, and resource status. Requires project, region, and commitment name as input.

disk

get_disk_basic_info

Get basic information about a Compute Engine disk, including its name, ID, description, creation timestamp, size, type, status, last attach timestamp, and last detach timestamp. Requires project, zone, and disk name as input.

get_disk_performance_config

Get performance configuration of a Compute Engine disk, including its type, size, provisioned IOPS, provisioned throughput, physical block size, storage pool and access mode. Requires project, zone, and disk name as input.

reservation

get_reservation_basic_info

Get Compute Engine reservation basic info including name, ID, creation timestamp, zone, status, specific reservation required, commitment, and linked commitments. Requires project, zone, and reservation name as input.

get_reservation_details

Get Compute Engine reservation details. Returns reservation details including name, ID, status, creation timestamp, specific reservation properties like machine type, guest accelerators and local SSDs, aggregate reservation properties like VM family and reserved resources, commitment and linked commitments, sharing settings, and resource status. Requires project, zone, and reservation name as input.

accelerator

list_accelerator_types

Lists the available Google Compute Engine accelerator types. Requires project and zone as input. Returns accelerator types, including id, creation timestamp, name, description, deprecated, zone, and maximum cards per instance.

commitments

list_commitments

Lists Compute Engine Commitments in a region. Details for each commitment include name, ID, status, plan, type, resources, and creation, start and end timestamps. Requires project and region as input.

disks

list_disks

Lists Compute Engine disks. Details for each disk include name, ID, description, creation timestamp, size, type, status, last attach timestamp, and last detach timestamp. Requires project and zone as input.

images

list_images

Lists Compute Engine Images. Details for each image include name, ID, status, family, and creation timestamp. Requires project as input.

instances

list_instances

Lists Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instances. Details for each instance include name, ID, status, machine type, creation timestamp, and attached guest accelerators. Use other tools to get more details about each instance. Requires project and zone as input.

machine

list_machine_types

Lists the available Google Compute Engine machine types. Requires project and zone as input. Returns machine types, including id, creationTimestamp, name, description, guest cpus, memory, image space, maximum persistent disks, maximum persisten disks size, deprecated, zone, is shared cpu, accelerators, and architecture.

managed

list_managed_instances

Lists managed instances for a given managed instance group (MIG). For each instance, details include id, instance URL, instance status, and current action. Requires project, zone, and MIG name as input.

reservations

list_reservations

Lists Compute Engine reservations. Details for each reservation include name, ID, creation timestamp, zone, status, specific reservation required, commitment, and linked commitments. Requires project and zone as input.

reset

reset_instance

Resets a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. Proceed only if there is no error in response and the status of the operation is `DONE` without any errors. To get details of the operation, use the `get_zone_operation` tool.

snapshots

list_snapshots

Lists snapshots in a project providing basic information per snapshot including name, id, status, creation time, disk size, storage bytes, source disk, and source disk id. Requires project as input.

start

start_instance

Starts a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. Proceed only if there is no error in response and the status of the operation is `DONE` without any errors. To get details of the operation, use the `get_zone_operation` tool.

stop

stop_instance

Stops a Google Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instance. Requires project, zone, and instance name as input. Proceed only if there is no error in response and the status of the operation is `DONE` without any errors. To get details of the operation, use the `get_zone_operation` tool.

zone

get_zone_operation

Get details of a zone operation, including its id, name, status, creation timestamp, error, warning, HTTP error message and HTTP error status code. Requires project, zone, and operation name as input.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	826 ms	6 min ago

Googleapis — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Googleapis do?

It exposes 29 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: create_instance, delete_instance, get_commitment_basic_info, get_disk_basic_info, get_disk_performance_config, get_instance_basic_info and 23 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Googleapis mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around instance, commitment and disk. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Googleapis working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 820 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Googleapis?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Googleapis need an API key?

No. Googleapis completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 29 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Googleapis?

It answers our handshake in 820 ms on average, which is faster than 9% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.