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Prometheus MCP Server MCP Server

MCP server providing Prometheus metrics access and PromQL query execution for AI assistants

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

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Published as ghcr.io/pab1it0/prometheus-mcp-server:1.6.2 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

29 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

[Feature]: Alert and recording rules tools

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues and discussions for similar feature requests
  • I have checked the documentation to ensure this feature doesn't already exist
  • This feature request is related to the Prometheus MCP Server project

Feature Type

New MCP Tool (new functionality for AI assistants)

Priority Level

Medium - Would improve workflow significantly

Feature Summary

Tools for managing and interacting with recording and alerting rules.

Read the thread · 2026-05-13 · closed · external user · 3 comments

[Bug]: Helm Chart is not public

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues to ensure this bug hasn't been reported before
  • I have checked the documentation and this appears to be a bug, not a configuration issue
  • I can reproduce this issue consistently

Priority Level

Medium - Moderate impact on functionality

Bug Description

The helm chart is not available for public.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Run helm pull oci://ghcr.io/pab1it0/charts/prometheus-mcp-server --version 1.0.0
  2. O

Read the thread · 2026-04-01 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[Bug]: Prometheus mcp server pod not comming 1/1 Running state

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues to ensure this bug hasn't been reported before
  • I have checked the documentation and this appears to be a bug, not a configuration issue
  • I can reproduce this issue consistently

Priority Level

High - Significant impact, blocks important functionality

Bug Description

Hi @pab1it0

i am trying to install your mcp server with my prometheus url, the configuration looks good !!

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Read the thread · 2026-03-26 · closed · external user · 4 comments

[Question]: How to solve the problem of slow output content

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues and discussions for similar questions
  • I have checked the documentation and README
  • I have tried basic troubleshooting steps

Question Type

Configuration Help (setup, environment variables, MCP client config)

Question

When the query time is 30 minutes or longer, the model feedback content will be very slow. Currently, it seems that MCP does not support streaming output. It almost seems like the content is ou

Read the thread · 2025-09-20 · closed · external user · 4 comments

[Bug]: get_metric_metadata

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues to ensure this bug hasn't been reported before
  • I have checked the documentation and this appears to be a bug, not a configuration issue
  • I can reproduce this issue consistently

Priority Level

Medium - Moderate impact on functionality

Bug Description

Hi,

There is a bug in get_metric_metadata:

https://github.com/pab1it0/prometheus-mcp-server/blob/main/src/prometheus_mcp_server/server.py#L274C18-L274C26

Read the thread · 2025-09-18 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments

Most recent

MCP spec conformance: 9 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test)

Running an automated MCP protocol conformance sweep (@hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) against this server found that it does not respond to the protocol handshake (server/discover / initialize) within the suite's 10-second timeout, even though PROMETHEUS_URL was set to a value the server should be able to accept without needing a live, reachable Prometheus instance for the handshake itself. Both spec revisions this server negotiates (2026-07-28 and 2025-11-25) show the same underlying symptom — no r

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[Bug]: get_targets returns all dropped targets unfiltered, exhausting server memory

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues to ensure this bug hasn't been reported before
  • I have checked the documentation and this appears to be a bug, not a configuration issue
  • I can reproduce this issue consistently

Priority Level

High - Significant impact, blocks important functionality

Bug Description

get_targets requests /api/v1/targets with no query parameters and returns every dropped target verbatim. Prometheus supports state and `s

Read the thread · 2026-08-01 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[Feature]: add direct Azure Entra ID support to mcp-prometheus as an upstream OIDC provider, without Dex.

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues and discussions for similar feature requests
  • I have checked the documentation to ensure this feature doesn't already exist
  • This feature request is related to the Prometheus MCP Server project

Feature Type

Authentication Enhancement (new auth methods, security)

Priority Level

High - Important for broader adoption

Feature Summary

Add direct Azure Entra ID support to mcp-prometheus as an upstream OIDC

Read the thread · 2026-07-17 · open · external user · 2 comments

No auth gate on inbound MCP connections (http/sse transport)

Looks like PROMETHEUS_USERNAME/PASSWORD/TOKEN authenticate the server's own connection to Prometheus, but there's no auth on the inbound side — anyone who can reach the http/sse endpoint can use it.

Flagging in case it's useful: getmcpauth does OAuth 2.1 + DCR specifically for MCP servers, could close that gap without a big refactor. Not trying to sell hard, just noticed it while looking at MCP servers with exposed HTTP transports.

Read the thread · 2026-07-01 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[Bug]: helm chart mentioned in the docs seems to be private

Pre-submission Checklist

  • I have searched existing issues to ensure this bug hasn't been reported before
  • I have checked the documentation and this appears to be a bug, not a configuration issue
  • I can reproduce this issue consistently

Priority Level

Low - Minor issue, workaround available

Bug Description

helm chart mentioned in the docs seems to be set to private

Steps to Reproduce

 helm pull oci://ghcr.io/pab1it0/charts/prometheus-mcp-server
Error: G

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pab1it0/prometheus-mcp-server/issues/141) · 2026-03-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### [Bug]: 严重的性能问题，只要打开IDE，MCP就会一直占用CPU！！！

### Pre-submission Checklist

- [x] I have searched existing issues to ensure this bug hasn't been reported before
- [x] I have checked the documentation and this appears to be a bug, not a configuration issue
- [x] I can reproduce this issue consistently

### Priority Level

Medium - Moderate impact on functionality

### Bug Description

代码里其实写了一套缓存逻辑（get_cached_metrics），但开发者在最重要的 list_metrics 工具里完全忘了去调用它。导致每一次 IDE 检查MCP插件时，它都要从 Prometheus 重新拉取并解析上万条指标数据。会持续占用CPU。

### Steps to Reproduce

1. 只要

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pab1it0/prometheus-mcp-server/issues/127) · 2026-02-06 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### [Feature]: Support for Multiple MCP Servers in Cursor

### Pre-submission Checklist

- [x] I have searched existing issues and discussions for similar feature requests
- [x] I have checked the documentation to ensure this feature doesn't already exist
- [x] This feature request is related to the Prometheus MCP Server project

### Feature Type

New MCP Tool (new functionality for AI assistants)

### Priority Level

High - Important for broader adoption

### Feature Summary

When attempting to run multiple instances of the MCP server in Cursor (to sup

[Read the thread](https://github.com/pab1it0/prometheus-mcp-server/issues/114) · 2026-01-09 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 20 reports Pod holds for Prometheus MCP Server](/mcp/prometheus-mcp-server/issues) — of 29 qualified upstream.

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