# Zabbix API MCP MCP Server

MCP server for the Zabbix API — daily brief, problems, hosts, items

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `zapi-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**11 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 8.

### Most discussed

### set_maintenance: comma/whitespace-only hosts bypasses this tool's own validation

\`set_maintenance\`'s \`location\`/\`hosts\` normalization strips and rejects a wholly empty or whitespace-only string (fixed in #57), but a string that's non-empty after stripping yet resolves to zero real host names after splitting -- e.g. \`hosts="   ,   "\` -- still passes the "exactly one of location/hosts" check here.

Not a silent-success bug: the resulting empty \`host_list\` is passed to \`zapi_lib.ZapiClient.set_maintenance_for_hosts([])\`, which raises \`ZapiError("... requires at lea

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/58) · 2026-08-10 · closed · 2 comments

### Pre-public audit: review for sensitive data (secrets / PII / org-specific settings)

## Goal

Before making this repository public, audit the **current tree and the entire git history** for any secrets, third-party personal data, real infrastructure identifiers, or organization-specific settings. Once clear, proceed with going public.

> Note: All concrete sensitive values are **redacted** below and described only by category, so this audit issue does not itself leak the data it tracks.

## Method

Multi-agent audit across 5 dimensions (secrets / pii / infra / org-config / docs-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/3) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 1 comment

### daily_brief: stale fossil alerts crowd Active Problems — want recency-focused display

> Recreated from the pre-public repository (history was reset before going public). Original was in Japanese; translated here. Resolved by #3 / #4.

## Problem

`daily_brief`'s Active Problems lists *all* currently-active problems per severity. In Zabbix, liveness alerts whose recovery is not auto-confirmed (e.g. "Unavailable by ICMP ping", "RDP service is down") can stay active for months or years, so problems from long ago pile up under High / Average and **bury the day's real operational anom

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/1) · 2026-06-01 · closed · 1 comment

### docs: set_maintenance has no docs/reference.* entry

## Problem

`docs/reference.md` / `docs/reference.ja.md` document every read-only tool plus `acknowledge_problem`, but `set_maintenance` — the only other write tool — has no entry in either file. It ships without a documented output format, argument semantics, or the write-tool caveats that `acknowledge_problem`'s entry calls out (visibility, irreversibility).

## Context

Noticed while adding `get_maintenance_windows` (#63) as the read counterpart to `set_maintenance`. The new tool's docs expli

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/65) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

### set_maintenance に期間上限が無く、遠い未来の till で長期間アラート抑制されうる

## 背景

`shigechika/zapi-mcp` の `set_maintenance` ツールは `till` に任意の未来日時を渡せる。呼び出し元（例: `slack-mcp-bridge`）が承認ゲート等の人間チェックを挟んでいても、それは目視確認どまりで機械的な歯止めではない。`till` に例えば2037年のような遠い未来を指定した呼び出しが承認されてしまうと、対象ホスト（`location` タグ一致の場合は多数になりうる）のアラートが何年も抑制され続ける。加えて、現状 `set_maintenance` を取り消す（メンテナンスウィンドウをキャンセルする）ツールが無いため、一度作成すると `till` を迎えるまで手動でZabbix UI等から消すしかない。

NichidaiSRE PR#328（`slack-mcp-bridge` のWRITE_TOOL_WHITELISTに`set_maintenance`追加）のai-reviewで指摘された（advisory、blockingではない）。

## 提案

以下のいずれか、または組み合わせ:

- `set

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/62) · 2026-08-10 · open · 0 comments

### Most recent

### Add a live smoke test that exercises every registered tool

## Motivation

Unit tests check logic against fixtures. They cannot tell you that a tool users actually call has stopped returning real data — a tool that exists but does not work is worse than no tool.

This happened for real in `jquants-mcp`: the earnings-calendar tools returned well-formed **empty** results for every query while the whole suite stayed green (shigechika/jquants-mcp#523). A live smoke test was built there to close the gap, and on its first production run it found three defects,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/34) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 0 comments

### docs: user documentation site on GitHub Pages (family rollout)

## Summary

Roll out the family documentation-site pattern to this repository: a task-oriented user guide on GitHub Pages, complementing the reference README.

Template (live example): https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio — issue shigechika/mcp-stdio#284, scaffold PR shigechika/mcp-stdio#285, published at https://shigechika.github.io/mcp-stdio/ (Japanese at `/ja/`).

## Steps

1. Copy the three-piece scaffold from mcp-stdio and adapt:
   - `mkdocs.yml` — change `site_name` / `site_url` / `rep

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/12) · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

### Exit cleanly on ^C instead of dumping an anyio teardown traceback

## Observed

Launching `zapi-mcp` interactively by mistake and pressing ^C dumps a 78-line anyio teardown traceback ending in `KeyboardInterrupt` (measured on 0.5.0, macOS, Python 3.14).

## Expected

Silent clean exit, same as the sibling MCP servers (junos-mcp / eos-mcp / aruba-central-mcp / keycloak-mcp all exit 0 with zero stderr on SIGINT).

## Fix (fleet convention, see eos-mcp `__main__.py`)

```python
try:
    mcp.run()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    os._exit(0)
```

Plus a subprocess-bas

[Read the thread](https://github.com/shigechika/zapi-mcp/issues/11) · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

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