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HomeLab Monitor

HomeLab Monitor is an MCP server that adds cloud and DevOps tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Self-hosted homelab dashboard with a built-in read-only MCP server (hosts, Docker, GPU, services). It has 226 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2.

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Install HomeLab Monitor

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "homelab-monitor": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL=your-value --transport stdio homelab-monitor -- docker run -i --rm -e HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "homelab-monitor": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "homelab-monitor": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
HOMELAB_MONITOR_URLYesBase URL of the running HomeLab Monitor dashboard (e.g. http://YOUR-HUB:9800)
MCP_TRANSPORTNoTransport mode: stdio (default for this package entry) or http

About HomeLab Monitor

One page for your whole home lab & AI rig — GPU truth (any vendor), tokens/sec, power cost by the hour, uptime, training runs, containers, disks. No agents, no separate metrics stack, no cloud.

  • docker
  • gpu
  • homelab
  • monitoring
  • nvidia
  • self-hosted
  • vram
  • ai-infrastructure
  • llm
  • ollama

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How do I install the HomeLab Monitor MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm -e HOMELAB_MONITOR_URL docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2 to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is HomeLab Monitor free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is HomeLab Monitor actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 24, 2026. The latest release is v0.37.0, published Sep 23, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.