# SigNoz MCP Server MCP Server

SigNoz MCP server: access metrics, traces, logs, alerts, and dashboards via AI assistants

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

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `docker.io/signoz/signoz-mcp-server:v0.13.0` on oci. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**23 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

### can not work in dify

the url is : `http://192.168.2.111:18000/mcp`
it can work in claude code as  install by `claude mcp add --scope user --transport http signoz http://192.168.2.111:18000/mcp`
but can not work in dify and other tools like cherry studio

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/169) · 2026-05-09 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Why is the client storing the apikey? If we are caching the http client, we should reuse as much as possible to reuse connections. Otherwise it's an incomplete attempt to cache the http client.

Understood. Why is the client storing the apikey? If we are caching the http client, we should reuse as much as possible to reuse connections. Otherwise it's an incomplete attempt to cache the http client.

If the answer to this is "legacy" code, please take it up as an enhancement to be done later.

_Originally posted by @therealpandey in https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/pull/63#discussion_r2955296138_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/69) · 2026-03-18 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Add tools to mcp server to support update_alert

The SigNoz MCP Server only supports read-only alert operations (list alerts, get alert details, get alert history). There is no update_alert tool available yet.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/64) · 2026-03-10 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Write a blog on best practices to use SigNoz MCP server

highlight any tips which can help users make most use of it

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/31) · 2025-10-17 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Enable creating dashboards via MCP tool calls?

Grafana MCP supports creating dashboards
https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana?tab=readme-ov-file#dashboards

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/23) · 2025-09-29 · closed · outside contributor · 16 comments

### Most recent

### Add read-only tools to list and inspect log ingestion pipelines

SigNoz has a separate product surface for log ingestion/processing pipelines (parsers,
processors, enrichment rules applied to incoming logs) that currently has zero
representation in this MCP server's tool set. An agent today can search and aggregate
logs, but can't answer "why isn't this log being parsed/enriched the way I expect" — that
requires a human to open the SigNoz UI and check pipeline config directly.

Proposing two new **read-only** tools to start (scoping deliberately narrow for a 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/270) · 2026-08-03 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Add a tool to expose the service dependency map (service-to-service call graph)

SigNoz's own UI has a Service Map feature — the call graph between services, including
per-edge error rate and latency. The MCP server currently exposes `signoz_list_services`
and `signoz_get_service_top_operations`, but nothing surfaces the actual dependency edges
between services.

This is a real gap for diagnostic workflows: answering "is the checkout failure caused by
something downstream" requires knowing what checkout actually calls, which today requires
leaving the chat to check the SigNo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/269) · 2026-08-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Add tools to list, create, and delete planned-maintenance (downtime) schedules

> **Edited after digging into the SigNoz source — my original framing was wrong.** I opened this asking for Alertmanager *silence* tools. There is no silences API in SigNoz: `pkg/alertmanager/handler.go`'s `Handler` interface has no silence method, `pkg/apiserver/signozapiserver/alertmanager.go` exposes only channels / route policies / alerts, and Alertmanager is embedded as a library (`pkg/alertmanager/alertmanagerserver/server.go`) rather than run as a process, so upstream's `/api/v2/silences`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/268) · 2026-08-03 · open · external user · 0 comments

### [foundry] docker healthcheck always fails on `signoz/signoz-mcp-server:latest`: image ships no `wget` (or any shell/coreutils)

**Environment**

- Image: `signoz/signoz-mcp-server:latest`, digest `sha256:da4fb0379d603a492fdbc0f384854f7d412a4c43347df2e086d17fc16770dd00` (build tag `main-2a64f20`, confirmed via Docker Hub API as the newest published build, 2026-07-17, still current at verification time 2026-07-19)
- Deployed via Foundry `foundryctl v0.2.14` (commit `6133128`), Docker Compose flavor, MCP enabled via `spec.mcp.spec.enabled: true`
- Host: macOS (Apple Silicon), Docker Desktop, Docker Engine 29.6.1, Compose v5

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/246) · 2026-07-18 · open · external user · 0 comments

### signoz_get_trace_details omits span links/references — async producer↔consumer traces can't be correlated

`signoz_get_trace_details` is described as "Get full trace with all spans", but the returned spans never include **span links** (OTel `Links` / references).

## Root cause

(Unverified claude research: ) `BuildTracesQueryPayload` (`pkg/types/querybuilder.go:550`) hardcodes the `SelectFields` list, and there is no entry for span links/references. So links are never requested from `/api/v5/query_range`. There is also no `link`/`references` field key exposed via `signoz_get_field_keys` (traces), so

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/229) · 2026-07-06 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Signoz mcp error x509 failed to verify cerificate when connecting to signoz in air-gapped private domain env

Hello,

we have signoz system running as self hosted on our closed air-gapped environment and we want to connect the signoz mcp to signoz.

we have configuared it via claude code that is running in our env.

the signoz mcp server is running on docker container and not he binary due to restrications in our env.

the claude code is connect to the mcp server, but when starting to use the tools and trying to get data from our signoz we get error x509 failed to verify, we tried to update the ca certi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/177) · 2026-05-17 · open · external user · 1 comment

### fails to upload metrics in self-hosted Docker setup with "tls: first record does not look like a TLS handshake"

## Bug: `signoz-mcp-server` fails to upload metrics in self-hosted Docker setup with "`tls: first record does not look like a TLS handshake`"

### Summary

When using `signoz-mcp-server` against a healthy self-hosted SigNoz Docker deployment, the MCP server starts but repeatedly logs:

```text
failed to upload metrics: exporter export timeout: rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = "transport: authentication handshake failed: tls: first record does not look like a TLS hand

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz-mcp-server/issues/136) · 2026-04-19 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 21 reports Pod holds for SigNoz MCP Server](/mcp/signoz-mcp-server/issues) — of 23 qualified upstream.

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