Radar MCP Server

Radar Diagnostics

Version: k8s-ui-v1.9.0-3-g70037c9d-dirty | Go: go1.26.5 | OS: linux/amd64 | Uptime: 11s

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• Context: `gke_ayoconnect-central-apigee_asia-southeast2_kong-apigat

Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · open · external user · 4 comments

feat: add Kubecost REST API support for cost data

Problem statement

Radar's cost view requires Prometheus metrics emitted by OpenCost or Kubecost. Kubecost Enterprise 3.x in federated mode does not emit Prometheus metrics at all — cost data flows from the finopsagent to S3, then to the aggregator, which exposes it only via REST API. Clusters running this setup see:

Cost metrics not found — Prometheus is available, but no OpenCost or Kubecost metrics were detected

There is no workaround: the metrics do not exist in Prometheus, so poi

Read the thread · 2026-06-29 · open · external user · 3 comments

radar-desktop fails to run on Fedora 43 KDE

Describe the bug

The radar-desktop app (v1.4.4) doesn't run on Fedora 43 (KDE Edition) running Wayland.

To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Launch radar-desktop after installing the RPM
2. There is a brief window (black) that appears and then disappears on screen
3. The output on the console is:

2026/04/14 22:10:17 Radar Desktop 1.4.4 starting...
2026/04/14 22:10:18 PATH enriched from login shell (6 entries)
2026/04/14 22:10:18 KUBECONFIG enrichment skipped: not found 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/465) · 2026-04-14 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Skip ssl check

## Problem statement
Error tls checking:

OIDC initialization failed (issuer=https://keycloak.local/auth/realms/infra-devops): Get "https://keycloak..local/auth/realms/devops/.well-known/openid-configuration": tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority — cannot start with auth-mode=oidc 

## Proposed solution

Add --skip-tls options for skip ssl check 

## Alternatives considered

Add documentation for skiping ssl checking

## Additional context

│ 2026/04/0

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/410) · 2026-04-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Enable MCP in the Desktop App

The title says it all. 
Allow MCP to be enabled in the desktop app

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/308) · 2026-03-11 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Expose more data to mcp

## Problem statement

I really hate needing to copy paste / give a browser to the ai so it can get access to open cost data and rightsizing 

## Proposed solution

Expose those data trough the mcp server

## Alternatives considered

giving a browser to the ai but more token usage and cant run headless

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/1527) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 0 comments

### AI diagnose (cursor-agent): all MCP tool calls rejected — COULDN'T DETERMINE

## Describe the bug

Radar AI diagnose with **Cursor Agent** fails with **COULDN'T DETERMINE**. Every Radar MCP tool call (`get_resource`, `get_events`, `get_pod_logs`, `get_neighborhood`, etc.) is marked rejected: *"All the MCP tool calls were rejected by the user."*

The ephemeral workspace already approves the `radar` MCP server (`mcp-approvals.json` contains a `radar-…` entry). The failure is Cursor auto-denying **tool** invocations in headless `-p` mode when Radar passes `--trust` instead o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/1523) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Support OAuth 2.1 authentication for remote MCP clients

## Problem

Radar's self-hosted OIDC authentication protects `/mcp` with a Radar browser session cookie, but remote MCP clients such as OpenCode follow the MCP OAuth discovery flow after receiving `401`.

Radar currently returns:

- `401` from `/mcp`
- `404` from `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp`

As a result, remote MCP clients cannot authenticate or refresh credentials against a self-hosted Radar deployment.

## Requested behavior

Add MCP-compatible OAuth 2.1 support for self-hosted

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/1434) · 2026-08-14 · open · external user · 1 comment

### running radar locally with mutliple kubeconfigs and mcp

## Describe the bug

not sure if this is a bug or not.  but when running radar on you local system with the mcp server enabled, and multiple kubeconfigs set the LLM says it only has access to one cluster, while we can switch between the clusters in the UI, this doesn't update what the MCP has access to 

## To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. set the KUBECONFIG to point to multiple clusters.
2. from the same shell start Radar
3. use your tooling of choice to access your llm and ac

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/1104) · 2026-07-05 · open · external user · 1 comment

### feat(auth): per-user API keys for programmatic access (MCP, CI, headless clients)

## Problem

When Radar runs with `--auth-mode=oidc`, headless clients — MCP tools, CI pipelines, automation scripts — cannot authenticate because they cannot complete the browser-based OIDC login flow. The only current workaround is manually minting a raw `radar_session` cookie using the HMAC secret, which is fragile, not user-scoped, and bypasses any per-user RBAC.

## Proposed Solution

Add a `/api/auth/api-keys` endpoint that lets authenticated users generate long-lived API keys tied to their

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/733) · 2026-05-19 · open · external user · 0 comments

### v1.5.14: README "Supported Resources" lists PV/StorageClass/VPA/Gateway/HTTPRoute/NetworkPolicy/PDB/SA/LimitRange but capabilities map reports them off

## Summary

Several resource kinds listed in the [README "Supported Resources" table](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar#supported-resources) are present at the RBAC layer (via `rbac.additionalRules` or the chart's default ClusterRole) but are not rendered by the v1.5.14 binary — the frontend `capabilities.resources` map reports them as `false`, and MCP `list_resources` returns errors specific to the missing type handlers.

This affects:

| README Category | Kind | Behaviour in v1.5.14 |
|---|-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/704) · 2026-05-13 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Cannot hide secrets from users when auth.mode is oidc

## Problem statement

With `auth.mode: oidc`, the chart always grants secrets access to the ServiceAccount regardless of `rbac.secrets: false`. All authenticated users can see secrets in the resource browser — even if their personal ClusterRole doesn't include secrets.

I created a custom ClusterRole (`radar-viewer`) that explicitly excludes secrets and bound it to my Keycloak group via ClusterRoleBinding, but users in that group still see secrets in the UI.

There's no way to hide secrets from 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/skyhook-io/radar/issues/688) · 2026-05-12 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 17 reports Pod holds for Radar](/mcp/radar/issues).

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