What is an MCP Gateway? One control plane for AI access
An MCP gateway is a single governed front door for every MCP interaction in your company. Here's what governing MCP actually means: knowing who is calling which tool, restricting tools by user group, capping how often tools can be called, and keeping one audit trail. What you’ll learn: ▸ What is an MCP gateway? ▸ How to govern vendor-built MCP servers alongside the ones you build yourself ▸ The four things “governing MCP” means in practice: identity, tool-level access, rate limits, and audit ▸ How group-based tool access works ▸ Why giving an LLM fewer tools makes it more reliable and cuts token spend ▸ How to swap out a vendor tool that returns too much data or costs too much, without giving up the rest of that vendor’s server CHAPTERS 00:00 MCP Gateway defined: one governed front door for every AI client 01:00 One place to see what each user can access and what they’ve actually done 01:30 What “govern” means, part 1: who is calling what, logged as themselves 02:12 Tool-level control: vendor servers can expose dozens of tools 02:45 Rate limits and quotas so AI clients don’t overwhelm back-end systems 02:58 One audit surface across every MCP server 04:40 New hire joins finance, gets finance tools automatically 05:07 Fewer tools means less LLM confusion and lower token costs 05:40 Swapping out vendor MCP tools that return too much data 06:33 MCP at scale: what happens when every department adds its own server 06:58 MCP Management: tool swapping, group access, rate limits, and audit in one place If it speaks MCP, you can govern it. Celigo MCP Management gives IT one place to control who uses which AI tools, how often, and with a full record of every call. 🚀 Never miss Celigo Sessions: https://www.celigo.com/webinar_series/celigo-sessions/ 👉 Get a demo: https://www.celigo.com/request-a-demo/ 🔎 Learn more: https://www.celigo.com/platform/mcp-management/ #Celigo #MCPGateway #MCPServer #ModelContextProtocol #AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI #ITLeadership #NetSuite #Salesforce #iPaaS