Add the InfluxDB MCP server to Cursor

Prerequisites

• Cursor installed.
• INFLUX_DB_INSTANCE_URL — URL of your InfluxDB 3 instance (Core, Enterprise, Cloud Serverless, Clustered).
• INFLUX_DB_TOKEN — Authentication token for query and write operations.
• INFLUX_DB_PRODUCT_TYPE — Deployment type: core, enterprise, cloud-serverless, cloud-dedicated, or clustered.

Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "influxdb": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@influxdata/influxdb3-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "INFLUX_DB_INSTANCE_URL": "<INFLUX_DB_INSTANCE_URL>",
        "INFLUX_DB_TOKEN": "<INFLUX_DB_TOKEN>",
        "INFLUX_DB_PRODUCT_TYPE": "<INFLUX_DB_PRODUCT_TYPE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gotchas

Cursor keeps MCP servers under an "mcpServers" object in ~/.cursor/mcp.json for global use, and also reads a project-scoped .cursor/mcp.json so a repository can ship its own servers. Remote servers are configured with a bare "url" field and connect natively, with OAuth handled in-app when a server requires it.