Use Cases

Below are some typical example use cases that might give you a good starting point to experiment with the Octopus Deploy MCP server.

We are eager to hear how you use it and what features you would like to see included in future versions.

Capability: Change Management

Reason about what changes have been deployed where, to help you understand what your customers are using in production.

Production Version Tracking

Quickly find out what version of your software a customer, represented by a Tenant, is running in Production, and identify if there were any issues with their most recent deployment.

📝 Example Prompt

Customer X have submitted a support ticket complaining that there is a bug in the latest release of App. Can you tell me what release they are on, when it was deployed, and if there were any issues with the deployment?

Capability: Troubleshooting

Get to the root cause of failures or unhealthy deployment targets, allowing you to more quickly recover from failures.

Deployment Health Analysis

Check for failed deployments or unhealthy kubernetes workloads, analyze the failure reasons and suggest solutions.

📝 Example Prompt: Deployment Health

Check health of the {ServiceName} service in the {SpaceName} space and report any issues found, check status of kubernetes services to produce a comprehensive report

💡 Tips for customizing

• Prompt for kubernetes status to trigger kubernetes live object status check

Capability: Administration, Audit, and Compliance

Ensure your Octopus instance is in optimal shape, and that deployments continue to execute happily and healthily.

Certificate Expiry Monitoring

Identify unhealthy resources, expiring certificates or find unused projects in your Octopus instance.

📝 Example Prompt: Certificate Expiry

Find certificates soon set to expire in {SpaceName} space

Resource Access Validation

Find configured resources in your Octopus instance and check if they have access to the desired targets.

📝 Example Prompt: Resource Access

Check accounts configured in {SpaceName} space in my Octopus instance, find the preproduction azure account and then check which resources are available in that subscription using the azure mcp

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Page updated on Friday, August 1, 2025