How to connect Elasticsearch to Cursor

1. 1. Enable Elasticsearch in Metorial

   In your Metorial portal, enable the Elasticsearch MCP server and sign in with the account that owns the data. Access stays governed by your team policies.

2. 2. Add Metorial to your MCP config

   Use ~/.cursor/mcp.json for every project, or .cursor/mcp.json for one.

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   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "metorial": {
         "url": "<your-magic-mcp-url>"
       }
     }
   }

3. 3. Sign in

   Open Customize in the sidebar, find Metorial and sign in to load Elasticsearch tools.

• Cluster Health: Get the health status and key metrics of the Elasticsearch cluster including node count, shard allocation status, and pending tasks.
• List Indices: List all indices in the Elasticsearch cluster with their health status, document count, and storage size.
• Get Document: Retrieve one or more known Elasticsearch documents by ID.
• Bulk Operations: Perform multiple index, create, update, or delete operations in a single API call.
• Index Document: Create or replace a document in an Elasticsearch index.
• Update Document: Partially update an existing document in an Elasticsearch index.
• Manage Index: Create, configure, open, close, or delete an Elasticsearch index.
• Search Documents: Search and query documents in Elasticsearch using the full Query DSL.
• Manage Watch: Create, update, delete, execute, activate, or deactivate Watcher alerts.
• Manage Alias: Create, delete, or list index aliases.
• Graph Explore: Discover relationships between terms in an Elasticsearch index.
• ES|QL Query: Execute an ES|QL query to filter, transform, and analyze data stored in Elasticsearch.
• Manage Snapshot: Create, restore, delete, or retrieve snapshots and snapshot repositories for cluster backups.
• Reindex: Copy documents from one index to another, optionally applying a query filter or transformations via a script.
• Run Inference: Execute a machine learning inference task using a configured inference endpoint.
• And 5 more on the Elasticsearch MCP server page.

• Cursor picks MCP tools automatically when they are relevant, including in Plan Mode. Name a Elasticsearch tool to steer it.
• Cursor asks for approval before it uses an MCP tool by default. Click the arrow next to the tool name to check the arguments first.
• Switch the Metorial server off from Customize in the sidebar without removing it.
• Cursor shows each Elasticsearch tool response in chat, with expandable views of the arguments and the result.

Metorial connects but tools are missing or failing

Open the Output panel (Cmd+Shift+U), choose MCP Logs, and look for authentication or connection errors.

Your company blocks the server

Enterprise admins approve remote servers in Team Settings, then MCP Configuration. Ask them to add a URL entry for your Metorial URL.

Cursor asks before every tool call

That is the default. Allowlist the Metorial tools you trust in your Run Mode settings to run them without a prompt.

Based on the Cursor MCP documentation.