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Netdata MCP Server

Real-time infrastructure monitoring with metrics, logs, alerts, and ML-based anomaly detection.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Status

Pod has not dialled Netdata 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

A hosted endpoint at https://app.netdata.cloud/api/v1/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "netdata": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://app.netdata.cloud/api/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

32 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

[Bug]: Couldn't stop the agent on macOS (already running)

Bug description

Agent does not shutdown even I run sudo /usr/local/netdata/usr/sbin/netdatacli shutdown-agent command several times. I couldn't understand why it doesn't shutdown. When I run second time of the following command:

$ sudo /usr/local/netdata/usr/sbin/netdatacli shutdown-agent
uv_pipe_connect(): connection refused
Make sure the netdata service is running.

It says Make sure the netdata service is running.. But it's already running:

$ curl -s localhost:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/13829) · 2022-10-14 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### [Bug]: unknown type name EVP_MD_CTX in SQLite

### Bug description

While cross-compiling the latest version of Netdata (1.33.0) for OpenWrt routers, it can not be compiled due to this output:

```c
database/sqlite/sqlite_health.c: In function 'sql_health_alarm_log_cleanup':
database/sqlite/sqlite_health.c:353:50: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type 'size_t' {aka 'unsigned int'} [-Wformat=]
 #define SQL_CLEANUP_HEALTH_LOG(guid,guid2,limit) "DELETE from health_log_%s where unique_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/12056) · 2022-01-28 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### How to install a plugin? (smartd_log)

Reading the [documentation](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/Add-more-charts-to-netdata.md) regarding adding more charts to netdata, it does not specifically mention how  plugins can be installed and activated on Netdata.

Specifically I am interested on the [smartd_log](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/collectors/python.d.plugin/smartd_log) plugin, but neither the [plugin readme](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/collectors/python.d.plugin/smartd_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/7415) · 2019-12-03 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Does not inform sufficiently of intent to report my data to Google Analytics

The netdata installer says the following:

The following changes will be made to your system:

USERS / GROUPS

User 'netdata' and group 'netdata' will be added, if not present.

LOGROTATE

This file will be installed if logrotate is present.

  • /etc/logrotate.d/netdata

SYSTEM INIT

This file will be installed if this system runs with systemd:

  • /lib/systemd/system/netdata.service

or, for older Centos, Debian/Ubuntu or OpenRC Gentoo:

  • /etc

Read the thread · 2019-11-25 · closed · external user · 38 comments

Tech refinement for agent claiming

There are some problems in implementing https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/7086 .

There is the problem of authenticating the netdata agent identification. MACHINE_GUID is not enough because:

  • MACHINE_GUID is not a secret, it can be visible in the network or known to other users. Thus it is not secure. Malicious netdata agents can copy the MACHINE_GUID and connect to netdata cloud hosts without authorization. Moreover, the original netdata agent will be locked out of netdata cloud whi

Read the thread · 2019-11-07 · closed · outside contributor · 30 comments

Most recent

[security] MCP dev-preview API key file I/O vulnerable to symlink following and blocking special-file opens

Bug description

src/web/api/mcp_auth.c handles the load, generation, and verification of the MCP developer-preview API key file (mcp_dev_preview_api_key under the netdata var-lib directory). The file I/O does not apply the regular-file / symlink / blocking-open protections that the rest of the codebase already enforces for comparable secret-bearing files (e.g. src/web/api/v1/api_v1_manage.c).

Vulnerable code

Load path (mcp_api_key_load):

int fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);

[Read the thread](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/23161) · 2026-07-17 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Netdata MCP v2.10.3 fails Codex Streamable HTTP handshake after initialize

### Bug description

OpenAI Codex CLI fails to start the Netdata MCP server when using Codex's native Streamable HTTP MCP configuration.

This looks related to #21999 / #22000, but it does not appear to be the exact same missing `Mcp-Session-Id` issue. In my case, the Netdata server does return an `Mcp-Session-Id` for `initialize`, but Codex still fails while sending the `notifications/initialized` notification.

### Codex configuration

```toml
[mcp_servers.netdata]
url = "https://<host>/netdat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/22594) · 2026-06-01 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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Read the thread · 2026-04-07 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Netdata MCP HTTP endpoint fails during initialization when used from Codex via Streamable HTTP

Summary

We are using Codex with Netdata over MCP HTTP, and startup fails during initialization when the server is configured as a Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint.

The MCP server responds to initialize, but Codex then fails during or immediately after initialization with a transport-level error.

Environment

  • Netdata version: v2.9.0
  • Client: Codex
  • Transport: MCP over HTTP (/mcp)
  • Auth: Authorization: Bearer <token>
  • Deployment: Netdata parent in Kubernetes behind ingress

A

Read the thread · 2026-03-21 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[Bug]: high CPU usage of the cgroups plugin

Bug description

I started observing around 17% CPU usage on my backup machine and 25% on my Raspberry Pi, though nothing changed on my main server.

It's quite a mystery to me as the two machines that exhibit the behavior have almost no containers running, whereas my main server does have many.

It seems to be the cgroups plugin's thread.

I initially thought it was related to #16818 and tried to delete the cache, but it made no difference.

<img width="1328" alt="Screenshot 2024-08

Read the thread · 2024-08-17 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[Bug]: netdata 1.46.1 fails to build on FreeBSD 14.0 amd64

Bug description

The netdata agent fails to build either via cron or when kickstart is invoked manually on FreeBSD 14.0.

There are many errors and finding the root one is difficult, but it seems to start with a series of:

/context_stream.cc.o.d -o CMakeFiles/netdata.dir/src/aclk/schema-wrappers/context_stream.cc.o -c /tmp/netdata-updater-XXXXXXXXXX.OmaqweibGI/netdata-v1.46.1/src/aclk/schema-wrappers/context_stream.cc
In file included from /tmp/netdata-updater-XXXXXXXXXX.OmaqweibG

[Read the thread](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/17995) · 2024-06-23 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### [Bug]: You have no nodes

### Bug description

After updating to latest netdata version 1.45.0-420-nightly, I can no longer access my netdata dashboard. I get the error "You no nodes".
Install command was:  `./kickstart.sh --disable-cloud --disable-telemetry --build-only --nightly-channel --reinstall `

![image](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/assets/4761298/496814d4-6280-4bbe-bf26-2d45e06a1063)

**I feel very aggressively steered towards a paid plan.** Your promise was for local installations without cloud to 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/17695) · 2024-05-17 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 22 reports Pod holds for Netdata](/mcp/netdata/issues) — of 32 qualified upstream.

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