The Glama MCP Gateway
Every MCP call from your agents flows through Glama – so you know exactly what your AI is doing, and you decide what it's allowed to do.
Every call logged · Every tool gated · Every credential managed
What is an MCP Gateway?
An MCP Gateway is a reverse proxy that sits between AI clients and MCP servers. It appears as an MCP server to the client while acting as an MCP client to the upstream server. Without a gateway, every agent manages its own connections to every server – a tangled point-to-point mess that breaks at enterprise scale. The Glama MCP Gateway consolidates all of that into one control plane where every call is visible, auditable, and revocable.
Route any MCP endpoint
The Gateway is source-agnostic. It fronts every kind of MCP endpoint with the same logging, access control, credential management, and analytics:
- Open-source MCP servers hosted on GlamaDeploy any server from the registry to Glama's infrastructure in one click. The Gateway fronts it automatically.
- Hosted MCP connectorsPre-indexed remote services like Linear, Stripe, and PostHog. Connect through the Gateway for centralized auth, call logging, and per-tool access control.
- Any remote MCP serverAny MCP endpoint you already run or want to use – bring your own credentials, point the Gateway at the URL, and route the traffic through your control plane.
What you get
Full call logging
Every tool call is logged with complete inputs and outputs. Debug broken agents, inspect every call, and audit exactly what your AI is doing.
Tool access control
Enable or disable individual tools per connector. You decide what your agents can and cannot do – down to the specific tool.
Managed credentials
Glama handles OAuth flows, token storage, and automatic rotation. Credentials stay centralized in Glama – your clients never have to store them, and they never expire mid-call.
Usage analytics
See which tools your agents call, how often, and when. Understand usage patterns, catch anomalies, and attribute costs.
Gateway vs. proxy
An MCP proxy is a thin pass-through: a JSON-RPC request comes in, gets forwarded upstream, and a response goes back. Nothing else. A gateway keeps the proxy and layers access control, encrypted OAuth storage with automatic token refresh, session lifecycle tracking, aggregated usage analytics, and full call logging on top. Use a proxy for basic routing against one upstream server. Use the Glama MCP Gateway when you are running MCP at scale and need governance.
Put the Glama MCP Gateway in front of your agents
Plus hosted MCP deployments on dedicated infrastructure, an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway, cost attribution labels, and team workspaces.