vibeMK-MCP 🚀

CheckMK Monitoring via LLM - Professional MCP Server

A maintained continuation of chexma/vibeMK by Andre, whose last release was in August 2025. This fork keeps the project going: it carries the original work forward under the same GPL-3.0 licence, preserves its history and authorship, and adds fixes verified against the CheckMK 2.4 source. Tool names are unchanged (vibemk_*), so existing client configurations keep working. If the original author resumes, everything here is offered back.

🎯 Overview

vibeMK enables complete management of your CheckMK monitoring environment directly through LLM interfaces using natural language. This project is in the alpha stage and under development. I accept no liability for any damage resulting from the use of this software.

Related MCP server: Linuxfabrik MCP Server for Icinga

vibeMK - Current Features

Live Monitoring ✅

• Host Status: Real-time host state (UP/DOWN/UNREACHABLE) with hard state detection

• Service Status: Live service monitoring (OK/WARNING/CRITICAL/UNKNOWN)

• Performance Metrics: Retrieve metrics data with automatic discovery

• Current Problems: Auto-detect all active monitoring issues

Downtime Management ✅

• Schedule Downtimes: Create host/service downtimes with flexible duration parsing ("2h", "1h30m")

• List & Filter: View all downtimes or filter for active ones only

Problem Management ✅

• Acknowledge Problems: Set acknowledgements for host/service issues (sticky/persistent options)

• List Acknowledgements: View all current problem acknowledgements

• Remove Acknowledgements: Delete by pattern or individual removal

Configuration Management ✅

• Folders: Create/delete monitoring folder structures

• Rules: Create rules for 2000+ CheckMK ruleset types with proper format handling

• Time Periods: Create custom notification schedules (business hours, 24/7, etc.)

• Host Groups: Organize hosts into logical groups

User & Security ✅

• User Accounts: Create/manage user accounts with role assignment

• Password Management: Set passwords with policy enforcement

• Contact Groups: Manage notification groups

• Host/Service Tags: Comprehensive tagging system

🚀 Quick Start

1. git clone https://github.com/SirTificate/vibemk-mcp.git
2. Edit the configuration file of your LLM Client, e.g. Claude Desktop - claude_desktop_config.json (See examples)
3. Start your LLM Client
4. CheckMK automation user setup (Administrator permissions or a customized role if changes are to be made, read-only if only analyses are to be performed.)
5. voila - configure checkmk using natural language

Complete Installation Guide: See INSTALL.md for detailed step-by-step instructions. More Examples: See examples/llm_configs/ and INSTALL.md
Visual Examples: See examples/Screenshots/ for example prompts and usage patterns

💡 Practical Prompt Examples

# Add new server
"Create a new host 'web-server-05' in folder 'Servers' with IP 192.168.1.105 and discover all services"

# Schedule maintenance
"Schedule a 2-hour downtime for the service Check_MK on 'cephnode01' starting at 22:00 tomorrow for 'Debian Updates'"

# Downtimes 
"show me all current scheduled downtimes."

# Metric analysis
"Compare the “response_time” metric of the “HTTPS Webservice” service of the two hosts www.google.de and www.heise.de for the last ten minutes."

# Ruleset analysis
"analyze and compare the rulesets "Filesystems (used space and growth)" and see, if there are duplicates or if rules can be combined."

Advanced Usage: See examples/ExamplePrompts.md for complex scenarios and tips

📚 Checkmk version compatibility

The REST API is served at version 1.0 up to and including CheckMK 2.4. CheckMK 2.5 introduces a versioned v1 path that is compatible with 1.0; support for it is not implemented yet.

Checkmk Edition Support

All features in this server use REST API endpoints that CheckMK registers for every edition, including Raw (CRE). That includes Business Intelligence and the Event Console, which the original README listed as Enterprise-only — a mistake this fork corrects.

The one genuine edition restriction is the Agent Bakery (agent endpoints), which exists only in the Enterprise and Cloud editions. It is not currently implemented here.

Security considerations

• Be aware of the potential security risks when you unleash AI on your checkmk

• Use at your own risk

• I accept no responsibility for actions performed by an AI

📄 License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

Happy Monitoring with CheckMK and LLMs! 🎉