Netdata provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistants to interact with infrastructure monitoring data.
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Netdata provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistants to interact with infrastructure monitoring data.
What is Netdata provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AI assistants to interact with infrastructure monitoring data.?
Netdata Agents (and soon Netdata Cloud) provide a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants like Claude or Cursor to interact with your infrastructure monitoring data. This integration allows AI assistants to access metrics, logs, alerts, and live system information (processes, services, containers, VMs, network connections, etc), acting as a capable DevOps/SRE/SysAdmin assistant.
Documentation
Nerve MCP Server
This project implements an MCP server for the Nerve API.
Installation## 1. Setting up Integration in Nerve:
Go to https://usenerve.com/ and create an account.
Continue to your Settings page to create an API key to use for the client.
2. Adding MCP config to your client:
Add the following to your .cursor/mcp.json or claude_desktop_config.json (MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json)
{
"mcpServers": {
"nerve": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/<ABSOLUTE_PATH>/nerve-mcp-server",
"run",
"nerve-mcp"
],
"env": {
"NERVE_API_KEY": "<API_KEY>",
"NERVE_ENVIRONMENT": "prod"
}
}
}
}
Don't forget to replace API_KEY with your own key. Find it from your Settings tab:
3. Enable third party integrations:
Navigate to your integrations page on Nerve to conenct to the various SaaS tools you use.
Examples
- Using the following instruction
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AI will plan one API calls, /search
(more examples coming soon)
Development
Execute
NERVE_API_KEY='<API_KEY>' uv run nerve-mcp
Server Config
{
"mcpServers": {
"netdata-provides-a-model-context-protocol-(mcp)-server-for-ai-assistants-to-interact-with-infrastructure-monitoring-data.-server": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"netdata-provides-a-model-context-protocol-(mcp)-server-for-ai-assistants-to-interact-with-infrastructure-monitoring-data."
]
}
}
}