# mcp-victoriametrics MCP Server MCP Server for VictoriaMetrics. Provides integration with VictoriaMetrics API and documentation **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled mcp-victoriametrics yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `ghcr.io/victoriametrics/mcp-victoriametrics:1.120.1` on oci. Runs locally. ## Known issues **24 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 ### Support dynamic per-request headers in tool calls ## Problem `VM_INSTANCE_HEADERS` is static — set once at startup and cannot be changed during the MCP server's lifetime. This doesn't work when headers need to be dynamic, for example short-lived auth tokens that expire and must be refreshed. ## Typical Scenario VictoriaMetrics cluster deployed behind an auth proxy: ``` MCP Client → mcp-victoriametrics → Auth Proxy (validates X-Token) → vmselect ``` - The auth proxy requires a custom `X-Token` header on every request - Tokens are short-liv [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/129) · 2026-03-04 · closed · external user · 13 comments ### Feature request: add otel-collector receivers metrics to metrics_metadata_db Hi VM team, we're using otel-collector to collect metrics from node, kubelet and k8s apiserver with following receivers: - [hostmetricsreceiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver) - [kubeletstatsreceiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/kubeletstatsreceiver) - [k8sclusterreceiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/k8sclust [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/90) · 2025-11-07 · closed · external user · 10 comments ### Error running in streamable http mode Hi Team, While running the server in streamable http mode, getting below error: **Error on server:** `2025/09/15 05:53:18 Starting mcp-victoriametrics version dev (date: unknown) 2025/09/15 05:53:26 Starting server in HTTP mode on 0.0.0.0:8080 2025/09/15 05:53:26 Server is listening on 0.0.0.0:8080 2025/09/15 05:54:03 ERROR: Failed to deliver sampling response: no pending request found for session mcp-session-2ad06bc0-2dcd-408e-8c13-e9e07bf2d4d7, request 1 2025/09/15 05:54:03 ERROR: Failed to [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/51) · 2025-09-15 · closed · external user · 9 comments ### More load resources Hi. I have a problem using the mcp server. I used the mcp-use client in python, the connection goes fine, however, when tools are found, a lot of resources appear that dramatically increase the context for transmission to the model, I looked for ways to disable but did not find. Can you tell me how to fix it? ``` 2025-07-18 17:45:31,725 - mcp_use - DEBUG - Successfully connected to MCP implementation via SSE: http://localhost:8082/sse 2025-07-18 17:45:31,725 - mcp_use - DEBUG - Initializing MCP [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/26) · 2025-07-18 · closed · external user · 6 comments ### High memory usage Somewhat ironic but my mcp-victoriametrics Docker container is using a lot of memory. To quote Claude: > mcp-victoriametrics on xxxx is using ~696MB That's surprisingly heavy for what is essentially a small MCP bridge container. You might want to check if it's got a memory leak or just inherently large. It's using about 4x what VictoriaMetrics itself uses on that same node. I restarted the container and it came back at 644MB which is still pretty high. There are no errors in the logs and I'm [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/138) · 2026-03-13 · closed · external user · 4 comments ### Most recent ### The `documentation` tool is too attractive for agents Whenever I have the MCP server enabled and ask agents questions completely unrelated to VictoriaMetrics, they try to use the `documentation` tool. For example here I asked Opus 4.8 a question about Backrest: Image What do you think about renaming this tool to contain VictoriaMetrics in its name? [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/186) · 2026-06-16 · open · external user · 0 comments ### Alerts tool panics when limit is greater than returned alerts count The `alerts` tool panics when it is called with a `limit` value greater than the number of alerts returned by the VictoriaMetrics API. Request: ```json { "state": "firing", "limit": 50 } ``` In my MCP client this tool is exposed as: ```text mcp_mcp_victoriametrics_alerts ``` Error: ```text 2026-05-19 13:53:02,818 ERROR [20260519_135155_2a8e0a] tools.mcp_tool: MCP tool mcp-victoriametrics/alerts call failed: panic recovered in alerts tool handler: runtime error: slice bounds out of rang [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/175) · 2026-05-19 · open · external user · 0 comments ### Add a Joy Trust badge to your README? Hey VictoriaMetrics team! We indexed your MCP server on **Joy** (trust network for AI agents) and wanted to offer a README badge: ```markdown [![Joy Trust](https://img.shields.io/badge/Joy-Indexed-blue)](https://joy-connect.fly.dev/agents/ag_c28d1620988c02697e0a4d7d) ``` **What you get:** - Discoverability among 8,000+ agents - Trust verification for multi-agent pipelines Your profile: https://joy-connect.fly.dev/agents/ag_c28d1620988c02697e0a4d7d — Joy Team [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/158) · 2026-04-07 · closed · external user · 1 comment ### can not send query request to vmgateway if it enable auth Reproduce Having VM cluster with vmgateway enable JWT token auth. Within this, the request don't need /prometheus prefix to be pass to vmgateway. However the mcp still sending request with prefix. So vmgateway repsone with 404 I tried to make a patch for fix this by removing the prefix, then the MCP works [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/130) · 2026-03-07 · open · external user · 0 comments ### The default tenant parameter for queries is 0, modify it to set the tenant parameter via environment variable The default tenant parameter for queries in cluster mode is hardcoded to '0', which causes queries to fail when the actual tenant ID is different. Need to modify the code to allow setting the default tenant via an environment variable (e.g., VM_DEFAULT_TENANT) to support different tenant configurations. https://xxxx.com/select/0/prometheus/api/v1/ [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/113) · 2026-01-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments ### By logging detailed HTTP request and response information to help locate abnormal calls By logging detailed HTTP request and response information to help locate abnormal calls: - Debugging Support: Record request URLs, parameters, headers, and response content to facilitate troubleshooting communication issues - Error Tracking: Record error messages and abnormal status codes to quickly identify problems - Performance Monitoring: Understand request response times and other performance metrics through logs" [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/112) · 2026-01-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments ### Installation Error Using Smithery I'm receiving the following error when trying to install the mcp server using smithery. `npx -y @smithery/cli install @VictoriaMetrics-Community/mcp-victoriametrics --client vscode` ✖ Failed to install @VictoriaMetrics-Community/mcp-victoriametrics Error: API error occurred: {"error":"Server not found","request$":{},"response$":{},"body$":"{\"error\":\"Server not found\"}"} [Read the thread](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/mcp-victoriametrics/issues/109) · 2025-12-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment [See all 18 reports Pod holds for mcp-victoriametrics](/mcp/mcp-victoriametrics/issues) — of 24 qualified upstream. ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used mcp-victoriametrics yet. 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