--- title: How to Run MCP Servers in Production (Security, Scaling... description: Running MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in production introduces governance, security, and observability challenges that don't exist at small scale. As AI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wg36ll94r twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Run MCP Servers in Production (Security, Scaling & Governance for AI Tooling) | daily.dev og:description: Running MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in production introduces governance, security, and observability challenges that don't exist at small scale. As AI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wg36ll94r og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WG36LL94r.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Run MCP Servers in Production (Security, Scaling & Governance for AI Tooling) **[Dev World](https://daily.dev/sources/dev_world)** · [@hadilbenabdallah](https://daily.dev/hadilbenabdallah) · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Running MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers in production introduces governance, security, and observability challenges that don't exist at small scale. As AI agents gain access to tools that can query databases, trigger deployments, or call internal APIs, uncontrolled access becomes a serious risk. The post advocates for introducing a gateway layer in front of MCP servers to centralize permission enforcement, rate limiting, cost tracking, and logging. Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway built in Go, is presented as a concrete solution that supports Virtual Keys for programmable access policies, unified observability via a built-in dashboard, and high-concurrency routing for large fleets of agents. The author shares personal experience of how adding a gateway simplified debugging and policy management compared to direct MCP integrations. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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