generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
status: published
source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/cohesitygaiamcp/
docs: https://docs.cohesity.com/docs/insights/data-insights/gaia/overview.htm
server:
  name: Cohesity Gaia MCP
  vendor: Cohesity, Inc.
  product: Cohesity Gaia Data Insights
  release_stage: preview
  transport: http
  protocol: Streamable HTTP (MCP JSON-RPC)
  implementation: FastMCP, stateless_http=true
  path: /mcp
deployment:
  mode: remote
  endpoint: null
  install: null
  package: null
  auth: api-key
  verified: searched
  note: >-
    Cohesity publishes a remote, HTTP-transport MCP server for Gaia Data Insights
    (distributed to Microsoft Copilot Studio / Power Platform as the first-party
    "Cohesity Gaia MCP" connector, publisher "Cohesity, Inc."). The MCP path is
    documented as /mcp, but the HOST is the customer's own Gaia deployment - the
    connector documentation describes the server calling the Gaia REST API via a
    configured api.base_url rather than a single vendor-hosted URL. No absolute
    endpoint is recorded here because none is published. A POST of tools/list to
    https://helios.cohesity.com/mcp returned HTTP 401
    {"errorCode":"KStatusUnauthorized"} - a routed, auth-gated path (a random
    top-level control path on the same host returned 302 instead) - which is
    consistent with the Helios control plane hosting the surface, but a 401 is
    not proof of an MCP endpoint and this pipeline does not record a guessed URL
    as verified.
authentication:
  scheme: apiKey
  header: apiKey
  credential: Cohesity Helios / Gaia API key
  docs: https://docs.cohesity.com/WebHelios/Content/Helios/Access%20Management.htm
  privilege_required: GAIA_VIEW
  note: >-
    The server forwards most incoming HTTP headers so authorization is identical
    between MCP access and direct Gaia REST access.
tool_selection:
  mechanism: x-mcp-tool
  note: >-
    Tools are generated only for Gaia OpenAPI operations explicitly marked
    `x-mcp-tool: true`; names and descriptions are customized with `x-mcp-config`,
    and `x-mcp-config.hidden-params` removes parameters from the tool surface.
    The Gaia OpenAPI itself is not published to a public URL - it was not found on
    any Cohesity host - so tool input schemas below are recorded from the vendor's
    connector reference, not from a fetched spec.
tools:
  - name: gaia_datasets
    description: >-
      Lists Gaia datasets; the entry point that returns the dataset hex IDs the
      other tools take.
    source_operation: GetDatasets
    method: GET
    path: /datasets
    defaults: {pageSize: 20}
    hidden_params: [statuses, sortField, sortOrder]
    response_model: GetDatasetsResponse
  - name: gaia_dataset_topics
    description: Returns the hierarchical topic tree discovered for one dataset.
    source_operation: GetDatasetDiscoveryResults
    method: GET
    path: /dataset/{id}/discovery
    defaults: {level: 1, numLevels: 2}
    hidden_params: [uuid]
    note: '`id` must be the dataset hex ID from gaia_datasets, not the display name.'
  - name: gaia_ask
    description: Runs a natural-language LLM query across one or more Gaia datasets.
    source_operation: QueryLlm
    method: POST
    path: /ask
    request_body: LlmQueryParams
    required: [datasetNames, queryString]
    hidden_params: [llmId, llmName, llm, conversationId, queryLanguageCode, history, metadata]
    response_model: QueryLlmResponse
  - name: gaia_search
    description: Performs an exhaustive keyword search within one Gaia dataset.
    source_operation: ExhaustiveSearch
    method: PUT
    path: /ask/exhaustive
    request_body: ExhaustiveSearchParams
    required: [datasetName, queryString, pageSize]
    defaults: {pageSize: 10}
    hidden_params: [conversationId]
    response_model: ExhaustiveSearchResponse
rate_limits:
  - scope: per-connection
    limit: 100
    window: 60s
    source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/cohesitygaiamcp/
    note: Throttling limit stated for the Microsoft Power Platform connector, not for the raw MCP server.
x-evidence:
  - {fetched: '2026-09-05', url: 'https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/cohesitygaiamcp/', http_status: 200}
  - {fetched: '2026-09-05', url: 'https://helios.cohesity.com/mcp', http_status: 401, note: 'POST tools/list -> KStatusUnauthorized; routed but auth-gated'}
  - {fetched: '2026-09-05', url: 'https://helios.cohesity.com/cohesity-control-7f3ab91c', http_status: 302, note: 'negative control on the same host - a nonexistent top-level path redirects rather than 401ing'}
  - {fetched: '2026-09-05', url: 'https://mcp.cohesity.com/mcp', http_status: 0, note: 'DNS does not resolve - no dedicated MCP host'}
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com