openITCOCKPIT MCP server

This is a helper that connects your AI assistant to an openITCOCKPIT monitoring system. Instead of clicking through dashboards, you can just ask questions in plain words and get answers back. It is handy for anyone who looks after servers, services or network devices and wants a quicker way to find out what is going on.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI a question, like what is broken right now. Your AI passes that question to this helper program. The helper talks to your openITCOCKPIT system using its own login, finds the answer, and hands it back. Your AI then explains it to you in the chat. Some tools only read; others can change things, but those are switched off until you turn them on.

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What you can do with it

• See what is broken right now, with causes separated from knock-on effects
• Ask why a specific host or service is in a critical state
• Check whether someone already acknowledged a problem or set a maintenance window
• Get a summary of what happened during a shift, like overnight
• Find out why you did not get an alert for a particular host
• Look up which templates a host could use
• Schedule a downtime for a host, if write tools are enabled

Try asking your AI

• “What is broken right now?”
• “Why is db-01 critical?”
• “Is anyone already working on the web01 problem?”
• “What happened during the night shift?”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, written in normal language. That can be a list of current problems, a short explanation of why something is failing, a summary of the last few hours, or a note that a change was made. Behind the scenes it is pulling host and service states, check history, logs, downtimes and acknowledgements from your monitoring system.

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Who it's for

IT staff, sysadmins and support teams who already use openITCOCKPIT and want to ask questions about their monitoring in plain words.