It Ops

MCP server that exposes homelab and IT-ops tools to Claude. Designed to grow tool-by-tool, starting with what's actually testable on a Linux homelab and extending toward AD / Intune / M365 when a corporate test environment is available.

Status: v0.0.5 (2026-04-19) — 8 working tools, 37 pytest tests, CI green on Python 3.10/3.11/3.12. Tools split into category modules under tools/. Locally tested on niborserver. Not yet on PyPI; install from source.

What it does today

Once installed and connected to Claude (Desktop or Code), Claude can call:

Tool	What it does
get_system_health	Local host's hostname, uptime, 1-min load, memory %, root-disk %, and running container count. Reads /proc + shells out to df and docker ps.
get_grafana_alert_state	Queries the Grafana Prometheus-style rules API and returns alerts grouped by state (firing / pending / inactive / no_data / error) with name, folder, health, last evaluation, annotations.
get_freqtrade_bot_status(bot)	Profit, win rate, open trade count, balance from a freqtrade REST API. Bot name resolved via config.
get_container_status	Full docker ps parsed into structured per-container records (name, image, state, health, uptime, ports).
query_loki_logs(query, since, limit)	Loki LogQL query_range against localhost:3100. Returns structured streams + lines, limit clamped to 1000.
get_smartd_health(device='/dev/nvme0n1')	NVMe/SATA SMART health via sudo smartctl -a — overall health, critical warning, temperature, available spare, percentage used, power-on hours, unsafe shutdowns, media errors.
get_backup_status	Reads /var/log/niborserver-backup.log and reports last_run_started/completed/duration/size/succeeded. Closes the "watch the watchers" loop.
query_influxdb_flux(flux, bucket)	Executes a Flux query against the local InfluxDB v2 and returns parsed CSV records (capped at 500 rows). Auth via INFLUXDB_TOKEN + INFLUXDB_ORG env vars.

Roadmap

• get_uptime_kuma_status — pull monitor states via Uptime Kuma API
• HTTP transport so openclaw / other tailnet peers can query niborserver-resident tools (currently stdio only)
• Eventually: get_ad_user, get_intune_compliance, get_m365_service_health — when a corporate test environment is available

Quickstart

On the host where the MCP server will run

git clone https://github.com/bastiaan365/mcp-it-ops.git
cd mcp-it-ops
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e .

Configuration

Copy the example and customise:

cp config/settings.example.yaml config/settings.yaml
# Edit config/settings.yaml — point at your Grafana, freqtrade bots, etc.

Secrets come from environment variables, never from the YAML. Default env var names:

Env var	What
GRAFANA_PASSWORD	Grafana admin password (referenced from grafana.password_env)
FT_STEADY_USER / FT_STEADY_PASS	freqtrade bot1 API basic auth
FT_FUN_USER / FT_FUN_PASS	freqtrade bot2 API basic auth

Connect to Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS, or %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on Windows:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "it-ops": {
      "command": "/path/to/mcp-it-ops/.venv/bin/mcp-it-ops",
      "env": {
        "GRAFANA_PASSWORD": "your-grafana-password",
        "MCP_IT_OPS_CONFIG": "/path/to/mcp-it-ops/config/settings.yaml"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The tools appear under "it-ops".

Smoke-test without Claude

GRAFANA_PASSWORD=... .venv/bin/python -c "
from mcp_it_ops.server import get_system_health, get_grafana_alert_state
import json
print(json.dumps(get_system_health(), indent=2))
print(json.dumps(get_grafana_alert_state().get('summary'), indent=2))
"

Or use the official MCP inspector:

.venv/bin/python -m mcp dev src/mcp_it_ops/server.py

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• mcp>=1.27.0, httpx>=0.27, pyyaml>=6.0 (auto-installed)
• Read access to /proc, df, docker ps for get_system_health
• Network reach + credentials for the services you want tools for

How development works

• src/mcp_it_ops/server.py — all tool definitions
• tests/ — pytest tests; one file per tool (TODO: backfill)
• config/settings.example.yaml — committed template; config/settings.yaml is gitignored

When adding a tool: see CLAUDE.md for the workflow + design conventions.

License

MIT