HomeLab Monitor MCP Server

Name: HomeLab Monitor MCP Server
Author: io.github.SikamikanikoBG

io.github.SikamikanikoBG/homelab-monitor

Repository Registry

What is the HomeLab Monitor MCP server?

Self-hosted homelab dashboard with a built-in read-only MCP server (hosts, Docker, GPU, services).

How to install HomeLab Monitor

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL
required
Base URL of the running HomeLab Monitor dashboard (e.g. http://YOUR-HUB:9800)
MCP_TRANSPORT
Transport mode: stdio (default for this package entry) or http

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "homelab-monitor": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2",
        "python",
        "/app/mcp_server.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL": "<YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "homelab-monitor": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2",
        "python",
        "/app/mcp_server.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL": "<YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "homelab-monitor": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2",
        "python",
        "/app/mcp_server.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL": "<YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "homelab-monitor": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2",
        "python",
        "/app/mcp_server.py"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL": "<YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add homelab-monitor --env HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL=<YOUR_HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL> --env MCP_TRANSPORT=<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORT> -- docker run -i --rm docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2 python /app/mcp_server.py