vibeMK 🚀

CheckMK Monitoring via LLM - Professional MCP Server

🎯 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.

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. pipx install vibemk   (or: uv tool install vibemk, or pip install vibemk into a virtual environment)
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. Upgrading from 0.3.x or older: git pull is not enough, see Upgrading. More Examples: See examples/llm_configs/ and INSTALL.md
Visual Examples: See examples/Screenshots/ for example prompts and usage patterns

🔌 Running it

Locally (default). The LLM client starts vibeMK itself over stdio. Nothing to host, nothing to secure -- the client already owns the process.

Centrally. One instance can serve many clients over Streamable HTTP, so they need neither Python nor vibeMK installed:

export VIBEMK_HTTP_TOKEN="$(python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))')"
vibemk --transport http --port 8765

Clients connect to http://<host>:8765/mcp and send Authorization: Bearer <token>. The token is mandatory, and vibeMK binds to localhost unless told otherwise: the CheckMK account lives on the server, so whoever reaches the port inherits it. See INSTALL.md for what that means before you expose it.

💡 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

CheckMK Version	Compatibility	Features
2.5.x	✅ Full	All features available, tested against 2.5.0p14 (Raw and Ultimate)
2.4.x	✅ Full	All features available
2.3.x	✅ Full	All features available
2.2.x and older	🔴 Unsupported

Checkmk Edition Support

• Raw Edition: Fully supported, including the BI and Event Console endpoints
• Enterprise Edition: Adds the Agent Bakery and custom graphs
• Cloud Edition: All Enterprise features

Edition availability follows the operationId of each endpoint in the Checkmk OpenAPI document: cmk.gui.cee.* is Enterprise-only, everything else is served by every edition including Raw.

Security considerations

• To let a model look without touching, start vibeMK read-only: --read-only or VIBEMK_READ_ONLY=1. Only the tools that read are offered, and a call to any other is refused before it reaches CheckMK
• 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.

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Happy Monitoring with CheckMK and LLMs! 🎉