# mcp-uptime-kuma [Health: Active]

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**Repository:** https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma  
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## Description
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Uptime Kuma version 2.

## Tools
Capabilities this server exposes over MCP:

- **getMonitorSummary** — Get a quick overview of all monitors with their current status. Supports filtering.
- **listMonitors** — Get the full list of all monitors with configurations. Supports filtering.
- **listMonitorTypes** — Get all available monitor types supported by Uptime Kuma.
- **getMonitor** — Get detailed configuration for a specific monitor by ID.
- **createMonitor** — Create a new monitor (requires name and type at minimum).
- **updateMonitor** — Update an existing monitor's configuration.
- **deleteMonitor** — Permanently delete a monitor and all its heartbeat history.
- **pauseMonitor** — Pause a monitor to stop performing checks.
- **resumeMonitor** — Resume a paused monitor to restart checks.
- **listHeartbeats** — Get status check history for all monitors.
- **getHeartbeats** — Get status check history for a specific monitor.
- **listNotifications** — List all configured notification channels (Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, etc.).
- **addNotification** — Create a new notification channel.
- **updateNotification** — Update an existing notification channel.
- **deleteNotification** — Permanently delete a notification channel.
- **listTags** — List all tags defined in Uptime Kuma.
- **addTag** — Create a new tag that can be assigned to monitors.
- **deleteTag** — Permanently delete a tag (removes it from all monitors).
- **getMaintenanceWindows** — List all scheduled maintenance windows.
- **createMaintenance** — Schedule a new maintenance window.
- **listStatusPages** — List all configured status pages.
- **getSettings** — Get Uptime Kuma server settings.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Install path detected from listing signals. Uses `npx` (confidence: high):

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-uptime-kuma": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": ["-y","-p"]
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

# mcp-uptime-kuma

A [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) server for [Uptime Kuma](https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma) *version 2*. Supports stdio and streamable HTTP transports.

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## Features

- **Real-time Monitoring**: Access monitors, heartbeats, uptime, and responsiveness metrics via Socket.IO with instant status change notifications.
- **Context-Friendly**: Returns only essential data by default to avoid overwhelming LLM context windows.
- **Multiple Transports**: Supports stdio (local) and streamable HTTP (remote) transports.

## Quick Start

### Using npx (stdio transport)

Add this to your MCP client configuration:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uptime-kuma": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma"],
      "env": {
        "UPTIME_KUMA_URL": "http://your-uptime-kuma-instance:3001",
        "UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME": "your_username",
        "UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD": "your_password"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

### Using Docker (streamable HTTP transport)

**Option 1: Docker Run**

```bash
docker run -d \
  --name mcp-uptime-kuma \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e UPTIME_KUMA_URL=http://your-uptime-kuma-instance:3001 \
  -e UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME=your_username \
  -e UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD=your_password \
  davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma:latest \
  -t streamable-http
```

**Option 2: Docker Compose**

A [docker-compose.yml](docker-compose.yml) file is provided in the repository. Download it, configure your environment variables, and run:

```bash
docker compose up -d
```

Then configure your MCP client to connect to the endpoint:

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uptime-kuma": {
      "url": "http://localhost:3000/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

See [Authentication Methods](#authentication-methods) for JWT token and anonymous authentication options.

## Example Conversation

![MCP server answering questions about Uptime Kuma monitors](.github/images/screenshot-1.png)
*Conversation in [LibreChat](https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat) where the `mcp-uptime-kuma` server is providing real-time information from Uptime Kuma.*

## Available Tools

### Monitors

| Tool | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `getMonitorSummary` | Get a quick overview of all monitors with their current status. Supports filtering. |
| `listMonitors` | Get the full list of all monitors with configurations. Supports filtering. |
| `listMonitorTypes` | Get all available monitor types supported by Uptime Kuma. |
| `getMonitor` | Get detailed configuration for a specific monitor by ID. |
| `createMonitor` | Create a new monitor (requires name and type at minimum). |
| `updateMonitor` | Update an existing monitor's configuration. |
| `deleteMonitor` | Permanently delete a monitor and all its heartbeat history. |
| `pauseMonitor` | Pause a monitor to stop performing checks. |
| `resumeMonitor` | Resume a paused monitor to restart checks. |

### Heartbeats

| Tool | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `listHeartbeats` | Get status check history for all monitors. |
| `getHeartbeats` | Get status check history for a specific monitor. |

### Notifications

| Tool | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `listNotifications` | List all configured notification channels (Slack, Discord, email, webhooks, etc.). |
| `addNotification` | Create a new notification channel. |
| `updateNotification` | Update an existing notification channel. |
| `deleteNotification` | Permanently delete a notification channel. |

### Tags

| Tool | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `listTags` | List all tags defined in Uptime Kuma. |
| `addTag` | Create a new tag that can be assigned to monitors. |
| `deleteTag` | Permanently delete a tag (removes it from all monitors). |

### Maintenance

| Tool | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `getMaintenanceWindows` | List all scheduled maintenance windows. |
| `createMaintenance` | Schedule a new maintenance window. |

### Status Pages & Settings

| Tool | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `listStatusPages` | List all configured status pages. |
| `getSettings` | Get Uptime Kuma server settings. |

### Filtering

`getMonitorSummary` and `listMonitors` support filtering by:

- **keywords**: Space-separated keywords for fuzzy matching against monitor pathNames
- **type**: Monitor type(s), comma-separated (e.g., `"http"`, `"http,ping,dns"`)
- **active**: Filter by active (`true`) or inactive (`false`) monitors
- **maintenance**: Filter by maintenance mode status
- **tags**: Tag name and optional value, comma-separated (e.g., `"production"`, `"env=staging"`)
- **status** (getMonitorSummary only): Heartbeat status (`"0"`=DOWN, `"1"`=UP, `"2"`=PENDING, `"3"`=MAINTENANCE)

**Examples:**
```javascript
getMonitorSummary({ status: "0" })                    // All DOWN monitors
getMonitorSummary({ type: "http", maintenance: true }) // HTTP monitors in maintenance
listMonitors({ tags: "production,region=us-east" })    // Monitors with specific tags
```

## Authentication Methods

### Anonymous Authentication
If authentication is disabled on your Uptime Kuma instance, only `UPTIME_KUMA_URL` is required.

### Username/Password Authentication
```
UPTIME_KUMA_URL=http://your-instance:3001
UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME=your_username
UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD=your_password
UPTIME_KUMA_2FA_TOKEN=123456  # Optional, only if 2FA is enabled
```

### JWT Token Authentication
Recommended for 2FA users. Takes precedence over username/password if both are provided.

```
UPTIME_KUMA_URL=http://your-instance:3001
UPTIME_KUMA_JWT_TOKEN=your_jwt_token
```

#### Obtaining Your JWT Token

**Using the CLI utility (recommended):**
```bash
npx -p @davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma mcp-uptime-kuma-get-jwt http://localhost:3001 admin mypassword
```

**Using Docker:**
```bash
docker run --rm davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma:latest get-jwt http://host.docker.internal:3001 admin mypassword
```

**From browser:** Open Developer Tools → Storage/Application → Local Storage → find `token` key.

## Credential Redaction

Read tools return `***` in place of secrets rather than the values themselves.

Uptime Kuma's socket API returns configuration verbatim — its web UI masks credentials at
render time. That is fine for a browser and not fine for an MCP server, whose output lands
in an LLM's context window and is then persisted in conversation transcripts, logs and
synced history. Asking "what am I monitoring?" should not write a live SMTP password or a
third-party API key into storage you may not control.

What is withheld:

| Tool | Withheld |
|---|---|
| `listNotifications` | everything in `config` except `type`/`name`/`isDefault`/`applyExisting`. The withheld field names are listed in `redactedConfigKeys` |
| `listMonitors`, `getMonitor` | `pushToken`, `basic_auth_pass`, `bearer_token`, `oauth_client_secret`, `radiusPassword`, `radiusSecret`, `mqttPassword`, `rabbitmqPassword`, `tlsCert`/`tlsKey`/`tlsCa`, `databaseConnectionString`, `headers`, `grpcMetadata`, plus anything matching `/pass|secret|token|apikey|auth(oriz\|entic)|bearer|credential|private.?key|jwt/i` |
| `listDockerHosts` | `user:password@` inside a `dockerDaemon` URL |
| `getHeartbeats`, `listHeartbeats` | any column Uptime Kuma returns beyond the declared heartbeat fields (e.g. `response`, which can carry a service's response body) is dropped, and `user:password@` inside a URL quoted in the status message is scrubbed |
| `getSettings` | any secret-named field Uptime Kuma returns (e.g. `steamAPIKey`) |
| `getMonitorSummary` | nothing — it returns no credentials to begin with |

`hostname`, `port`, `url`, `authMethod`, `oauth_token_url`, `oauth_scopes` and usernames stay
visible: hiding useful configuration is how a redaction feature gets switched off.

To get the real values, either pass `includeSecrets: true` on the call:

```
listNotifications({ includeSecrets: true })
```

or enable it globally:

```
UPTIME_KUMA_INCLUDE_SECRETS=true
```

The per-call parameter wins over the environment variable in both directions, so a
permissive deployment can still ask one call to redact.

**Writing `***` back is safe.** `updateMonitor` and `updateNotification` restore the stored
value when a field arrives as the marker, and report which fields they preserved. This
matters most for `updateNotification`: Uptime Kuma replaces the notification row rather than
merging it, so without this a read-edit-write round trip would replace a working password
with three asterisks. If there is no stored value to restore, the call fails rather than
writing a credential that looks set and cannot work.

`updateDockerHost` gets the same protection for the credentials embedded in a `dockerDaemon`
URL: a `http://***:***@host:2375` read back from `listDockerHosts` has its userinfo restored
from the stored URL rather than persisted verbatim, so repointing a host without re-entering
its credentials does not wipe them.

The MCP logging channel gets the same rule. The debug log for a live heartbeat reports the
monitored service's status message by length only (`msgLength=...`), never its content, since
that message can echo a target URL with an embedded `user:password@` or a slice of a response
body, and on the stdio transport those log notifications reach the client.

## LibreChat Configuration

**stdio transport:**
```yaml
mcpServers:
  uptime-kuma:
    command: npx
    args: ["-y", "@davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma"]
    env:
      UPTIME_KUMA_URL: "http://your-instance:3001"
      UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME: "your_username"
      UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD: "your_password"
    serverInstructions: true
```

**streamable HTTP transport:**

Update the allowed domains to whatever domain you're using in the URL (e.g., `localhost` or `host.docker.internal` for Docker setups):

```yaml
mcpServers:
  uptime-kuma:
    type: streamable-http
    url: "http://mcp-uptime-kuma:3000/mcp"
    serverInstructions: true

mcpSettings:
  allowedDomains:
    - 'mcp-uptime-kuma'
```

## Contributing

For development setup, building, testing, and project structure, see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).

## Learn More

- [Uptime Kuma](https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma)
- [Model Context Protocol Documentation](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/)
- [MCP TypeScript SDK](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@modelcontextprotocol/sdk)
- [MCP Specification](https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/)

## Security

To report a vulnerability, please see [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).

## Disclaimer

This is a personal, free, open-source side project provided "as is" under the
[MIT License](LICENSE), without warranty of any kind. You install and run it
yourself, and it connects to an Uptime Kuma instance that you control. The
author is not responsible for any damage, data loss, downtime, or other
consequences arising from its use. Use at your own risk.

## License

Licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE).