mcp-uptime-kuma

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Uptime Kuma version 2. Supports stdio and streamable HTTP transports.

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:

{
  "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

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 file is provided in the repository. Download it, configure your environment variables, and run:

docker compose up -d

Then configure your MCP client to connect to the endpoint:

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

See Authentication Methods for JWT token and anonymous authentication options.

The endpoint above is unauthenticated. Anyone who can reach port 3000 gets full read/write control of your Uptime Kuma instance. See Securing the HTTP Endpoint before exposing it beyond localhost.

Example Conversation

Conversation in 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")
• parentId: Group monitor ID, returning that group's direct children. Pass null for top-level monitors (those with no parent). Not recursive — to walk deeper, use each child group's own childrenIDs.
• status (getMonitorSummary only): Heartbeat status ("0"=DOWN, "1"=UP, "2"=PENDING, "3"=MAINTENANCE)

Examples:

getMonitorSummary({ status: "0" })                     // All DOWN monitors
getMonitorSummary({ type: "http", maintenance: true }) // HTTP monitors in maintenance
getMonitorSummary({ parentId: 12, status: "0" })       // What's down inside group 12
listMonitors({ tags: "production,region=us-east" })    // Monitors with specific tags
listMonitors({ parentId: 12 })                         // Direct children of group 12
listMonitors({ parentId: null })                       // Top-level monitors only

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):

npx -p @davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma mcp-uptime-kuma-get-jwt http://localhost:3001 admin mypassword

Using Docker:

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.

Behind an Authenticating Proxy (Cloudflare Access, etc.)

If Uptime Kuma sits behind a proxy that demands its own credentials — a Cloudflare Zero Trust Access application, oauth2-proxy, an API gateway — set UPTIME_KUMA_HEADERS to a JSON object of headers to send on every request. It combines with any of the methods above, which still handle logging in to Uptime Kuma itself.

For Cloudflare Access, create a service token, add a Service Auth policy to the application that allows it, then:

UPTIME_KUMA_URL=https://uptime.example.com
UPTIME_KUMA_HEADERS={"CF-Access-Client-Id":"<client-id>.access","CF-Access-Client-Secret":"<client-secret>"}
UPTIME_KUMA_USERNAME=your_username
UPTIME_KUMA_PASSWORD=your_password

In an MCP client's JSON config the value is a string, so the inner quotes need escaping:

"UPTIME_KUMA_HEADERS": "{\"CF-Access-Client-Id\":\"<client-id>.access\",\"CF-Access-Client-Secret\":\"<client-secret>\"}"

mcp-uptime-kuma-get-jwt reads the same variable. A malformed value stops the server at startup with an error naming the offending header; header values are never logged.

Securing the HTTP Endpoint

Applies to -t streamable-http only. The stdio transport has no listener to protect and takes its credentials from the environment, as the MCP specification prescribes.

Anyone who can reach /mcp has full read/write control of your Uptime Kuma instance, including deleting monitors. Two settings guard it, and both default to permissive so that upgrading cannot break an existing deployment - the server warns at startup in that state.

Variable	Default	Purpose
MCP_AUTH_TOKEN	unset (no authentication)	Shared secret that callers must present as Authorization: Bearer <token>. Anything else gets 401.
ALLOWED_ORIGIN	* (no validation)	Comma-separated list of browser origins permitted to call /mcp. A request whose Origin is not listed gets 403. Requests with no Origin header (every native MCP client) are always allowed.
HOST	0.0.0.0	Address to bind. Set to 127.0.0.1 when running locally outside a container.
PORT	3000	Port to listen on.
TRUST_PROXY	unset (no trust)	Trust X-Forwarded-For from a reverse proxy in front of the server, so the rate limiter keys on the real client IP instead of the proxy's. Accepts a hop count (1), true/false, or an IP/subnet list - see Express's trust proxy docs.

/health is deliberately left unauthenticated so container healthchecks and load balancer probes keep working. It reports nothing but liveness.

Setting a token

Generate a high-entropy secret - this is a password, and it is compared in constant time, so length is the only thing protecting it:

openssl rand -base64 32

docker run -d \
  --name mcp-uptime-kuma \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e UPTIME_KUMA_URL=http://your-uptime-kuma-instance:3001 \
  -e UPTIME_KUMA_JWT_TOKEN=your_jwt_token \
  -e MCP_AUTH_TOKEN=your_generated_secret \
  davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma:latest \
  -t streamable-http

Clients then send it as a header:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uptime-kuma": {
      "url": "http://localhost:3000/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer your_generated_secret"
      }
    }
  }
}

Why Origin validation matters separately

A shared secret stops anyone who cannot present it. It does not stop a website your browser already trusts. Under a DNS rebinding attack a page on evil.example resolves its own hostname to 127.0.0.1, so the browser treats requests to your local server as same-origin

• no preflight happens and CORS never applies. The server comparing the Origin header it was sent against a list of expected origins is the only check left standing, which is why the MCP specification makes it a MUST rather than a SHOULD.

If you only use native clients, leaving ALLOWED_ORIGIN unset costs you nothing; those clients send no Origin header. If you use a browser-based client, list its origin:

ALLOWED_ORIGIN=https://librechat.example.com,http://localhost:5173

Running behind a reverse proxy

Without TRUST_PROXY, Express sees every request as coming from the proxy's IP, so the rate limiter puts all of your clients in one shared 100-request bucket and starts returning spurious 429s once traffic from any of them adds up.

Set TRUST_PROXY to the number of proxy hops in front of the server so it reads the real client IP from X-Forwarded-For instead:

TRUST_PROXY=1

Only set this when a proxy you control is actually there to strip and re-set that header. If the server is reachable directly as well, or the proxy passes through whatever X-Forwarded-For it receives, a client can forge that header to get a fresh rate-limit bucket on every request, defeating the limiter entirely.

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
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:

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):

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.

Learn More

• Uptime Kuma
• Model Context Protocol Documentation
• MCP TypeScript SDK
• MCP Specification

Security

To report a vulnerability, please see SECURITY.md.

Disclaimer

This is a personal, free, open-source side project provided "as is" under the MIT 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.