MCP gateway intermittently returning 504 responses #56

A customer reported intermittent 504 Gateway Time-out responses from the hosted MCP gateway at mcp.serpapi.com.

The issue appears to happen both during the initial MCP connection/tool discovery step and when running searches through MCP. The same API key and comparable requests work successfully through the standard REST API.

From the customer’s report, the failures appear to be environment-specific rather than universal, as requests work from one environment but fail from another.

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