# mcp-uptime-kuma MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Uptime Kuma version 2.

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## Connect

Published as `@davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**22 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Failed to authenticate with Uptime Kuma: Error: Login failed

Hi David,

I'm trying to use this with LibreChat and used your example in the yaml file.

I'm getting authentication error (see below).

I'm fairly sure all my credentials are correct and I also tried using an API Key. I have MFA turned on so could this causing the error?

```
2025-11-22 20:50:21 error: [MCP][User: 69220b7f392bc8f5fc74ec2a][uptime-kuma] Connection failed: MCP error -32000: Connection closed
Failed to authenticate with Uptime Kuma: Error: Login failed
    at Socket.<anonymous> (f

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/3) · 2025-11-22 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Error converting schema Invalid schema (in Home Assistant to Komodo MCP docker instance)

In my Home Assistant, I see this error now (this has worked previously, so a recent update broke it)

```
Failed setup, will retry: Error converting schema Invalid schema, missing type: {'type': 'object', 'properties': {'name': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Human-readable name for this notification channel'}, 'type': {'type': 'string', 'description': 'Notification type (e.g. slack, ntfy, discord, telegram, webhook, smtp)'}, 'isDefault': {'type': 'boolean', 'description': 'Enable by default 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/55) · 2026-07-15 · open · external user · 3 comments

### [Feature Request] Add Authentication to MCP

Right now `mcp-uptime-kuma` has no protection itself.

Please allow to specify a `token` as environment variable.

When the token is set it must be passed as Bearer token on any request, if it's incorrect it should return 401.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/62) · 2026-07-26 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### listNotifications returns notification credentials in plaintext (SMTP passwords, ntfy passwords, tokens)

## Summary

`listNotifications` returns each channel's full `config` blob verbatim, including its secrets. For an SMTP channel that means `smtpUsername` and `smtpPassword`; for ntfy, `ntfypassword`; and by inspection the same applies to any type storing a token or webhook URL.

This isn't a Kuma bug — Kuma's socket API returns the config as-is, and the web UI masks it at render time. It matters more here because an MCP server's output lands in an LLM's context window and is persisted in client-s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/59) · 2026-07-22 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### createMonitor / updateMonitor silently drop `description` — field missing from inputSchema

## Summary

`createMonitor` and `updateMonitor` accept a `description` argument without complaint and return
success, but the value is never written. `getMonitor` returns `description: null` afterwards and the
Kuma database column stays `NULL`.

Same class as the already-fixed #41 (tags), #42 (docker_container / docker_host) and #50
(dns_resolve_server / dns_resolve_type): the field simply isn't declared in the tool's `inputSchema`,
so the MCP SDK strips it before it reaches the Kuma client.

Ve

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/58) · 2026-07-22 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### DX: misspelled `monitorId` reports "expected number, received nan" for `monitorID`; and listMonitors has no way to filter by parent

Two small usability items, both about a caller being unable to tell that an argument didn't land.

## 1. `z.coerce.number()` turns a misspelled param into a confusing NaN error

`getMonitor` and `getHeartbeats` take `monitorID`. Passing the very natural `monitorId`
(lowercase d) gives:

```
MCP error -32602: Input validation error: Invalid arguments for tool getMonitor: [
  { "code": "invalid_type", "expected": "number", "received": "nan",
    "path": ["monitorID"], "message": "Expected number, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/65) · 2026-07-26 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### "Not authenticated with Uptime Kuma" is permanent for the process — isAuthenticated is a write-once latch, stdio serves tools before auth completes, and no socket call has a timeout

## Summary

A server that fails or stalls its one startup authentication stays alive, keeps advertising all
34 tools, and answers every one of them with
`MCP error -32603: Not authenticated with Uptime Kuma` — for the rest of the process's life.
There is no in-band recovery; the only fix is for the user to restart their MCP client.

Three separate design details combine to produce this:

**1. `isAuthenticated` is write-once.** `dist/server.js:61` declares `let isAuthenticated = false`;
it is set

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/64) · 2026-07-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### updateMonitor cannot re-parent — `parent` missing from its inputSchema, call reports "Saved." while silently discarding it

## Summary

`createMonitor` accepts `parent`; **`updateMonitor` does not declare it**. Because the MCP SDK
strips undeclared fields, `updateMonitor { monitorID, parent }` returns
`{ok: true, monitorID, msg: "Saved."}` while the monitor stays in its original group.

Same class as #58 (`description`) and #60 (`json-query` / `push_token`), but with a sharper edge:
the other two leave a monitor *impoverished*, while this one makes a **successful-looking call a
no-op on an operation that has no other

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/63) · 2026-07-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### getMonitorSummary returns stale status/msg for push-type monitors

## Summary

`getMonitorSummary` returns a stale `status`/`msg` for **push-type monitors** — it appears to reflect an old heartbeat (in one case, the very first heartbeat ever recorded for that monitor) rather than the most recent one. Direct SQLite queries against the Kuma database show the monitors are actually `status=1` (OK, up-to-date) at the time `getMonitorSummary` reports them as DOWN/PENDING.

## Environment

- Package: `@davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma` v0.10.0
- Uptime Kuma server: self-hos

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/61) · 2026-07-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

### createMonitor / updateMonitor missing json-query fields (json_path, json_path_operator, expected_value) and push_token

## Summary

Two monitor types can be created but not *configured*, in the same class as #41 (tags), #42 (docker), #50 (dns) and #58 (description) — the fields aren't declared in the tool `inputSchema`, so they're stripped before reaching the Kuma client.

**`json-query`** — no `json_path`, `json_path_operator`, or `expected_value`. A `json-query` monitor created through the MCP has no query to run. Since both schemas set `additionalProperties: false`, passing the fields anyway is silently discar

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/60) · 2026-07-22 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### get_heartbeats / get_monitor_summary return the oldest heartbeats instead of the newest

## Summary
`getHeartbeats`/`getMonitorSummary` report stale data: with `maxHeartbeats: 5` I received heartbeats from six weeks ago (including an old DOWN status-change presented as if current), while the Uptime Kuma DB showed healthy heartbeats through the present moment.

## Root cause
Uptime Kuma emits the connect-time `heartbeatList` socket.io event in **ascending (oldest-first)** order. `uptime-kuma-client.ts` stores that payload verbatim into `heartbeatListCache`:

```ts
this.heartbeatListC

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/56) · 2026-07-18 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### DNS monitors cannot be configured: dns_resolve_server / dns_resolve_type not exposed — createMonitor produces a monitor that always fails

## Environment
- @davidfuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma 0.7.0 (npx, stdio transport)
- Uptime Kuma 2.4.0 (louislam/uptime-kuma:2)
- Client: Claude Code

## Summary
Neither `createMonitor` nor `updateMonitor` exposes the DNS-monitor fields
`dns_resolve_server` and `dns_resolve_type`. Both input schemas declare
`additionalProperties: false`, and passing the fields anyway returns
`{"ok": true, "msg": "Saved."}` while silently dropping them.

Consequences:

1. **`createMonitor` with `type: "dns"` produces a mo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DavidFuchs/mcp-uptime-kuma/issues/50) · 2026-07-02 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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