MCP on Netdata

Netdata Skills: Teach Your AI Coding Agent To Monitor

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a growing ecosystem of AI coding agents: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, and others. They’re good at writing code, but they don’t inherently know how to instrument that code for observability, configure monitoring infrastructure, or troubleshoot production systems using real telemetry data. That knowledge lives in documentation, runbooks, and the heads of your senior SREs.

We’ve open-sourced a repository that encodes this knowledge into a format AI agents can use directly. netdata/skills is a collection of agent skills, published in the open agentskills.io format, that teach AI coding agents how to set up Netdata, instrument applications with OpenTelemetry, build collector pipelines, troubleshoot 49 specific technologies, and verify everything against live data via MCP.

Introducing the Netdata Cloud MCP Server

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Netdata Cloud MCP Server is now available — giving AI agents and assistants direct access to your Netdata through a single endpoint at app.netdata.cloud/api/v1/mcp.

AI Is Changing How We Monitor Infrastructure

If you’re an engineer in 2026, chances are AI is already part of your daily workflow, whether that’s a general-purpose assistant like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini that you bounce questions off, or a coding agent like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Windsurf that writes and debugs code alongside you. These tools are incredibly powerful, but until now, they’ve been blind to what’s actually happening on your infrastructure.

AI Co-Engineer For Instant Root Cause Insights

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Netdata’s AI Co-Engineer combines edge-native machine learning with flexible AI integration, providing instant expert-level insights while keeping your data sovereign and secure.

Netdata Implements MCP Protocol

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Update (February 2026): Netdata now also provides MCP via Netdata Cloud at app.netdata.cloud/api/v1/mcp for infrastructure-wide access (Business/Homelab plan). See MCP documentation for details.

We are excited to announce that Netdata has officially implemented the Model Context Protocol (MCP), joining the forefront of AI-powered infrastructure monitoring.

By enabling direct connections between AI assistants and your data sources and tools, the Model Context Protocol is a new open standard that builds a crucial link between artificial intelligence and practical systems. Instead of the AI providing generic suggestions that don’t understand your environment, MCP enables it to communicate and then interact with your infrastructure data in real time. Being among the first monitoring platforms to adopt this groundbreaking protocol, Netdata is at the forefront of intelligent observability. With the help of this integration, traditional monitoring becomes a dialogue that your entire technical team is able to participate in. We encourage you to dive deeper into the technical foundations of MCP, explore Anthropic’s comprehensive explanation, and discover how this protocol is reshaping the future of AI-data interaction.