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 app/_how-tos/ai-gateway/v1/mcp/map-weather-api-to-mcp-tools.md:
   canonical_url: /ai-gateway/get-started-with-mcp-server/
 app/_how-tos/ai-gateway/v1/mcp/observe-autogenerated-mcp-tools-for-weather-api.md:
-  status: pending
-  canonical_url: /ai-gateway/mcp/
+  canonical_url: /ai-gateway/monitor-mcp-traffic-with-http-log/
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   status: pending
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diff --git a/app/_how-tos/ai-gateway/monitor-mcp-traffic-with-http-log.md b/app/_how-tos/ai-gateway/monitor-mcp-traffic-with-http-log.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,373 @@
+---
+title: Monitor MCP traffic with the HTTP Log plugin
+content_type: how_to
+related_resources:
+  - text: "{{site.ai_gateway}}"
+    url: /ai-gateway/
+  - text: AI MCP Server entity
+    url: /ai-gateway/entities/ai-mcp-server/
+  - text: HTTP Log
+    url: /ai-gateway/policies/http-log/
+
+description: |
+  Create an AI MCP from a mock API using `conversion-listener` mode, then use the HTTP Log Policy to record and inspect the payloads and responses from the example MCP.
+
+products:
+  - ai-gateway
+
+permalink: /ai-gateway/monitor-mcp-traffic-with-http-log/
+
+series:
+  id: mcp-conversion-2-0
+  position: 2
+
+works_on:
+  - konnect
+
+min_version:
+  ai-gateway: '2.0'
+
+tags:
+  - ai
+  - mcp
+
+tldr:
+  q: How do I observe and validate MCP traffic from autogenerated tools?
+  a: |
+    Use an AI MCP entity to expose a mock API as an MCP tool, then use the HTTP Log Policy to capture tool calls and validate their payloads and responses.
+
+tools:
+  - kongctl
+
+cleanup:
+  inline:
+    - title: Destroy the {{site.base_gateway}} container
+      include_content: cleanup/products/gateway
+      icon_url: /assets/icons/gateway.svg
+    - title: Clean up {{site.konnect_short_name}} environment
+      include_content: cleanup/platform/konnect
+      icon_url: /assets/icons/gateway.svg
+
+automated_tests: false
+
+---
+
+## Reconfigure the AI MCP Proxy plugin
+
+To observe traffic for MCP tools, you first must **enable logging and statistics** on the AI MCP. Apply the below configuration to reconfigure the AI MCP to log full payloads:
+
+```sh
+kongctl apply -f - --auto-approve --pat "$KONNECT_TOKEN" <<EOF
+ai_gateway_mcp_servers:
+  - ref: marketplace-mcp
+    ai_gateway: !lookup {id: $AI_GATEWAY_ID}
+    name: marketplace-mcp
+    display_name: "Marketplace API"
+    type: conversion-listener
+    enabled: true
+    policies: []
+    access:
+      acl_attribute_type: consumer
+      acls:
+        allow: []
+      default_tool_acls:
+        deny: []
+    config:
+      url: http://host.docker.internal:3000
+      route:
+        paths:
+          - /marketplace
+      logging:
+        payloads: true
+        statistics: true
+      server:
+        timeout: 60000
+    tools:
+      - name: get-users
+        description: Get users
+        method: GET
+        path: /marketplace/users
+        parameters:
+          - name: id
+            in: query
+            required: false
+            schema:
+              type: string
+            description: Optional user ID
+      - name: get-orders-for-user
+        description: Get orders for a user
+        method: GET
+        path: /marketplace/orders
+        parameters:
+          - description: User ID to filter orders
+            in: query
+            name: userid
+            required: true
+            schema:
+              type: string
+EOF
+```
+
+
+## Log MCP traffic
+
+Before we send tool calls, we need to set up the a HTTP Logs Policy to check how many tokens we've managed to save by using our configuration. 
+
+Apply the below config to create an HTTP logs Policy and attach it to the AI MCP entity:
+
+```sh
+kongctl apply -f - --auto-approve --pat "$KONNECT_TOKEN" <<EOF
+ai_gateway_policies:
+  - ref: my-http-log-policy
+    name: my-http-log-policy
+    ai_gateway: !lookup {id: $AI_GATEWAY_ID}
+    type: http-log
+    enabled: true
+    global: false
+    config:
+      http_endpoint: http://host.docker.internal:9999/
+      headers:
+        Authorization: Bearer some-token
+      method: POST
+      timeout: 3000
+
+ai_gateway_mcp_servers:
+  - ref: marketplace-mcp
+    ai_gateway: !lookup {id: $AI_GATEWAY_ID}
+    name: marketplace-mcp
+    display_name: "Marketplace API"
+    type: conversion-listener
+    enabled: true
+    policies: [ !ref my-http-log-policy#name ]
+    access:
+      acl_attribute_type: consumer
+      acls:
+        allow: []
+      default_tool_acls:
+        deny: []
+    config:
+      url: http://host.docker.internal:3000
+      route:
+        paths:
+          - /marketplace
+      logging:
+        payloads: true
+        statistics: true
+      server:
+        timeout: 60000
+    tools:
+      - name: get-users
+        description: Get users
+        method: GET
+        path: /marketplace/users
+        parameters:
+          - name: id
+            in: query
+            required: false
+            schema:
+              type: string
+            description: Optional user ID
+      - name: get-orders-for-user
+        description: Get orders for a user
+        method: GET
+        path: /marketplace/orders
+        parameters:
+          - description: User ID to filter orders
+            in: query
+            name: userid
+            required: true
+            schema:
+              type: string
+EOF
+```
+
+Let's run a simple log collector script which collect logs at `9999` port. Copy and run this snippet in your terminal:
+
+```
+cat <<EOF > log_server.py
+from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
+import datetime
+
+LOG_FILE = "kong_logs.txt"
+
+class LogHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def do_POST(self):
+        timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()
+
+        content_length = int(self.headers['Content-Length'])
+        post_data = self.rfile.read(content_length).decode('utf-8')
+
+        log_entry = f"{timestamp} - {post_data}\n"
+        with open(LOG_FILE, "a") as f:
+            f.write(log_entry)
+
+        print("="*60)
+        print(f"Received POST request at {timestamp}")
+        print(f"Path: {self.path}")
+        print("Headers:")
+        for header, value in self.headers.items():
+            print(f"  {header}: {value}")
+        print("Body:")
+        print(post_data)
+        print("="*60)
+
+        # Send OK response
+        self.send_response(200)
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write(b"OK")
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    server_address = ('', 9999)
+    httpd = HTTPServer(server_address, LogHandler)
+    print("Starting log server on http://0.0.0.0:9999")
+    httpd.serve_forever()
+EOF
+```
+
+Now, run this script with Python and UV:
+
+```sh
+uv run log_server.py
+```
+
+If the script is successful, you'll receive the following prompt in your terminal:
+
+```sh
+Starting log server on http://0.0.0.0:9999
+```
+
+## Validate MCP tools configuration
+
+You can validate that the HTTP Logs plugin is collecting metrics by generating MCP traffic to the mock API server. Enter the following question in Chatwise:
+
+```text
+what has bob ordered ?
+```
+
+Once Chatwise has finished reasoning, you will see MCP audit log entries logged by the HTTP plugin in your terminal similar to the following:
+
+
+```sh
+Received POST request at 2026-07-31T15:56:28.232507
+Path: /
+Headers:
+  Content-Length: 5145
+  Authorization: Bearer some-token
+  Content-Type: application/json
+  Host: host.docker.internal:9999
+  User-Agent: lua-resty-http/0.17.2 (Lua) ngx_lua/10028
+Body:
+{
+    "upstream_uri": "/",
+    "latencies": {
+        "redis": 0,
+        "socket": 0,
+        "request": 15,
+        "kong": 14,
+        "proxy": -1,
+        "third_party": 5.936128,
+        "client": 0.7616,
+        "receive": 0,
+        "http_client": 5.936128,
+        "kong_internal": 8.50176,
+        "dns": 0
+    },
+    "request": {
+        "headers": {
+            "mcp-protocol-version": "2025-11-25",
+            "content-length": "126",
+            "accept": "application/json, text/event-stream",
+            "connection": "keep-alive",
+            "accept-language": "en-GB",
+            "mcp-session-id": "8b2d1534-3ef9-4708-9baf-5cf36b4f5b1f",
+            "content-type": "application/json",
+            "host": "localhost:8000",
+            "user-agent": "ChatWise/26.7.4"
+        },
+        "size": 483,
+        "method": "POST",
+        "url": "http://localhost:8000/marketplace",
+        "id": "cc054f73a6b04f3573cdf02883d92f53",
+        "uri": "/marketplace",
+        "querystring": {}
+    },
+    "route": {
+        "service": {
+            "id": "c16f08e6-4cfe-5c39-8627-f744f091e592"
+        },
+        "regex_priority": 0,
+        "preserve_host": false,
+        "protocols": [
+            "http",
+            "https"
+        ],
+        "path_handling": "v0",
+        "name": "marketplace-mcp-route",
+        "id": "a878697a-8bbc-591b-8640-e1bd5aba261c",
+        "ws_id": "17dadd2f-94c5-4ba4-86bb-8d2d4e6e22cd",
+        "paths": [
+            "/marketplace"
+        ],
+        "updated_at": 1785509686,
+        "strip_path": true,
+        "https_redirect_status_code": 426,
+        "response_buffering": true,
+        "request_buffering": true,
+        "created_at": 1785509686
+    },
+    "started_at": 1785509788214,
+    "client_ip": "192.168.165.1",
+    "workspace": "17dadd2f-94c5-4ba4-86bb-8d2d4e6e22cd",
+    "workspace_name": "default",
+    "ai": {
+        "mcp": {
+            "mcp_session_id": "8b2d1534-3ef9-4708-9baf-5cf36b4f5b1f",
+            "rpc": [
+                {
+                    "id": "2",
+                    "method": "tools/call",
+                    "response_body_size": 2175,
+                    "tool_name": "get-orders-for-user",
+                    "latency": 15,
+                    "payload": {
+                        "request": "{\"id\":2,\"params\":{\"name\":\"get-orders-for-user\",\"arguments\":{\"query_userid\":\"e5f6g7h8\"}},\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"tools/call\"}",
+                        "response": "{\"id\":2,\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"result\":{\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"[{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord001\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Sugar (50kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"a1b2c3d4\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord002\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Cleaning Supplies Pack\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"a1b2c3d4\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord003\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Canned Tomatoes (100 cans)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"a1b2c3d4\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord004\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Flour (100kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"e5f6g7h8\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord005\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Dish Soap (10 bottles)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"e5f6g7h8\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord006\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Salt (25kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"e5f6g7h8\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord007\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Olive Oil (20L)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"i9j0k1l2\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord008\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Baking Powder (10kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"i9j0k1l2\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord009\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Rice (200kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"m3n4o5p6\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord010\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Vegetable Oil (15L)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"m3n4o5p6\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord011\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Pasta (80kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"m3n4o5p6\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord012\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Canned Beans (50 cans)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"m3n4o5p6\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord013\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Toilet Paper (Case of 48)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"q7r8s9t0\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord014\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Hand Sanitizer (20 bottles)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"q7r8s9t0\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord015\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Laundry Detergent (10L)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"u1v2w3x4\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord016\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Trash Bags (100 ct)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"u1v2w3x4\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord017\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Disinfectant Spray (5 bottles)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"u1v2w3x4\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord018\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Coffee Beans (30kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"k7l8m9n0\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord019\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Tea Bags (500ct)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"k7l8m9n0\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord020\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Condensed Milk (40 cans)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"k7l8m9n0\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord021\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Paper Towels (24 rolls)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"g3h4i5j6\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord022\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Broom & Mop Set\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"g3h4i5j6\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord023\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Cereal (20 boxes)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"c9d0e1f2\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord024\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Powdered Milk (10kg)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"c9d0e1f2\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord025\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Snacks Variety Pack\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"c9d0e1f2\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord026\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Cooking Gas Cylinder\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"y5z6a7b8\\\"},{\\\"id\\\":\\\"ord027\\\",\\\"name\\\":\\\"Napkins (1000ct)\\\",\\\"userId\\\":\\\"y5z6a7b8\\\"}]\"}],\"isError\":false}}"
+                    }
+                }
+            ]
+        }
+    },
+    "tries": [],
+    "response": {
+        "status": 200,
+        "headers": {
+            "connection": "close",
+            "cache-control": "no-store, no-transform",
+            "transfer-encoding": "chunked",
+            "x-kong-request-id": "cc054f73a6b04f3573cdf02883d92f53",
+            "server": "kong/2.0.1-ai-gateway",
+            "content-type": "text/event-stream",
+            "x-kong-response-latency": "14"
+        },
+        "size": 2503
+    },
+    "service": {
+        "name": "marketplace-mcp",
+        "ws_id": "17dadd2f-94c5-4ba4-86bb-8d2d4e6e22cd",
+        "host": "host.docker.internal",
+        "write_timeout": 60000,
+        "connect_timeout": 60000,
+        "updated_at": 1785509686,
+        "read_timeout": 60000,
+        "retries": 5,
+        "id": "c16f08e6-4cfe-5c39-8627-f744f091e592",
+        "created_at": 1785509686,
+        "port": 3000,
+        "enabled": true,
+        "protocol": "http"
+    },
+    "source": "kong",
+    "upstream_status": ""
+}
+
+```