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    {
      "Title": "Add truncation and filtering support for tools with large responses (e.g., list_rules, list_alerts, list_targets)",
      "Excerpt": "I'm experiencing context overflow when calling `list_rules` because standard Kubernetes rule templates contain a very large number of elements. The response size exceeds the LLM's context window capacity.\n\n**Examples of large outputs:**\n- `list_rules` — K8s standard rule templates with many alerting and recording rules\n- `list_alerts` — Large environments with numerous active alerts\n- `list_targets` — Many scrape targets across multiple namespaces\n- `tsdb_stats` — TSDB statistics can be substant",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/118",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-02T15:06:34.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 6,
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      "Title": "Can Not Load MCP Resource",
      "Excerpt": "Hello,\n\nI’m unable to successfully load a resource. I’m using Cherry Studio with the Claude model. The MCP tool itself works fine, but the MCP resource cannot be loaded correctly or accessed.\n\nI’ve attached screenshots of my configuration and prompt. Could you please take a look and let me know if I’m doing something wrong?\n\n<img width=\"526\" height=\"102\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2844cb2f-c5fb-4958-b7ad-2f9c70f32854\" />\n<img width=\"784\" height=\"383\" alt=\"Image\" ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/18",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-08-27T03:52:37.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 5,
      "Reporter": "External",
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    {
      "Title": "Authn, authz, HTTPS, Rate limiting, other http access controls to HTTP/SSE server",
      "Excerpt": "Currently, the MCP server supports using a [prometheus HTTP config file](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/configuration/configuration/#http_config) to configure access for the MCP server to connect with the backend prometheus api. However, there are no options to configure security access to the MCP server itself. This is especially important when running in SSE/HTTP transport modes, as it can mean the MCP server is running in a shared/multi-tenant environment, with concurrent users.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-08-11T23:29:51.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 4,
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      "Title": "SSE/HTTP transport: enable keepalive/heartbeat to prevent idle connection drops",
      "Excerpt": "When running the MCP server in HTTP transport mode (e.g., in a Podman container), the SSE connection reliably drops after a few minutes of idle time. After disconnection, all MCP tool calls fail until the client reconnects. This makes automated workflows (e.g., claude -p with a prompt) unreliable since the connection dies between runs.\n\nThis is a well-known issue across MCP servers using SSE transport.\n\n## Claude's suggestion \n\nThe mcp-go SDK already provides the solution: WithKeepAlive / WithKe",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/101",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-04T09:35:11.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "Support Multiple Prometheus Data Sources in a Single MCP Server Instance",
      "Excerpt": "We would like to request support for multiple Prometheus data sources within a single instance of the Prometheus MCP Server.\n\nIn our environment, we have hundreds of Prometheus instances (e.g., one per cluster or tenant), but we prefer to deploy only one MCP server for operational simplicity and resource efficiency. Currently, the MCP server appears to be configured for a single fixed Prometheus endpoint.\n\nIt would be extremely valuable if the MCP server could:\nAccept a list of named Prometheus ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/76",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-12-13T15:09:42.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 3,
      "Reporter": "External",
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      "Title": "Consider supporting 3rd party Prometheus HTTP API implementations via flag (ex: `--backend=thanos`)",
      "Excerpt": "# About\n\nPrometheus is often a component within a larger collection of systems to store/manage/query metrics. As such, some 3rd party systems implement _at least part_ of the Prometheus HTTP API. This is especially true for API endpoints like: query, range query, exemplar query, label names, label values, series, metric metadata, etc so that these 3rd party systems can serve as a \"drop in\" replacement for use with querying metrics in systems like grafana/perses.\n\n# Proposal\n\nAdd a flag `--backen",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-07-26T01:44:32.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Failed to validate tool mcp_prometheusmcp_delete_series",
      "Excerpt": "docker run --rm -p 8080:8080 ghcr.io/tjhop/prometheus-mcp-server:latest --prometheus.url \"http://localhost:9090/\" --mcp.transport \"http\" --web.listen-address \":8080\"\n\nWhen I try to run MCP server and access it via vscode client, i am seeing below error\n\nWhat metrics are available?\n\nFailed to validate tool mcp_prometheusmcp_delete_series: Error: tool parameters array type must have items. Please open a Github issue for the MCP server or extension which provides this tool\n\nOp\n\n2025-10-29 11:15:49.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/56",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-10-29T09:01:56.000Z",
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      "Comments": 2,
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      "Title": "Tools with EmptyInput missing 'properties' field in JSON Schema (OpenAI API incompatibility)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nTools that use `EmptyInput` (empty struct with no fields) generate JSON Schemas without a `properties` field:\n\n```json\n{\"type\":\"object\",\"additionalProperties\":false}\n```\n\nThe OpenAI API requires all object schemas to include a `properties` field, even when empty. This causes errors like:\n\n```\nInvalid schema for function 'prometheus__alertmanagers': In context=(), object schema missing properties.\n```\n\nThis affects **17 tools**: `alertmanagers`, `flags`, `list_alerts`, `tsdb_stats`, `",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/119",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-08T16:34:23.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "Create example grafana dashboard",
      "Excerpt": "Title",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/46",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-10-18T20:22:32.000Z",
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      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "Consider adding a version gate to tools/api calls",
      "Excerpt": "I noticed the recent addition of the TSDB blocks endpoint in the [prometheus HTTP api docs](https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/api/#tsdb-blocks) and was preparing to add support for it within the server. I tried quickly against the prometheus instance on my laptop and got a 404 because my laptop is still running prometheus v3.5.0. \n\nTo keep the MCP server api-complete, support will be added for the endpoint. But since the endpoint is so new, interactions with tools/api calls w",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/45",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-10-18T19:48:23.000Z",
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      "Comments": 0,
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    {
      "Title": "Go install fails due to embedding docs submodule contents",
      "Excerpt": "As far as I know, `go install` cannot handle Git submodules correctly. Consequently, `go install github.com/tjhop/prometheus-mcp-server/cmd/prometheus-mcp-server@latest` (v0.6.0) fails with an error:\n\n```\ngo/pkg/mod/github.com/tjhop/prometheus-mcp-server@v0.6.0/cmd/prometheus-mcp-server/main.go:40:13: pattern external/docs/docs: no matching files found\n```\n\nThis is due to embedding the Prometheus docs submodule here: https://github.com/tjhop/prometheus-mcp-server/blob/26794ec55411449a23a6e0e2fd0",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus-mcp/issues/31",
      "PublishedAt": "2025-09-25T17:00:23.000Z",
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