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Connect Checkmk to ChatGPT via MCP

Checkmk monitoring: hosts and their configuration, live service states, acknowledged and unhandled problems, host groups and downtimes. REST API on your own site, bearer-style automation user auth.

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Checkmk

Checkmk

Checkmk monitoring: hosts and their configuration, live service states, acknowledged and unhandled problems, host groups and downtimes. REST API on your own site, bearer-style automation user auth.

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Required env vars

CHECKMK_URLCHECKMK_USERNAMECHECKMK_SECRET
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Summary

Checkmk monitoring: hosts and their configuration, live service states, acknowledged and unhandled problems, host groups and downtimes. REST API on your own site, bearer-style automation user auth.

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Example prompts for Checkmk

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Checkmk + ChatGPT

Checkmk monitoring: hosts and their configuration, live service states, acknowledged and unhandled problems, host groups and downtimes. REST API on your own site, bearer-style automation user auth.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

CHECKMK_URL, CHECKMK_USERNAME, CHECKMK_SECRET

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setup

  1. In Checkmk create an automation user: Setup → Users → Add user, tick Automation secret for machine accounts, and copy the secret. Give it the guest role for read-only access, or admin if you want the configuration endpoints.
  2. Set CHECKMK_URL to your site root including the site name — https://monitoring.example.com/mysite — with no trailing slash. The site name is part of the path and leaving it out is the usual cause of a 404 that looks like a wrong version.
  3. Set CHECKMK_USERNAME to the automation user and CHECKMK_SECRET to its secret.

…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in ChatGPT

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

ChatGPT adds MCP servers as plugins on its Plugins page, on the web and on paid plans. Developer mode is no longer needed. In a Business workspace only admins and owners can add one; in Enterprise and Edu an admin can grant the Create plugins with MCPs permission.

  1. Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click Add, then Add custom MCP server.
  2. Enter a name, e.g. Name: Checkmk.
  3. Under Connection, enter the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID and keep Authentication on OAuth.
  4. Select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin. When ChatGPT asks, sign in to AnythingMCP and allow access.
  5. Install the new plugin from your personal plugins, then type @ in a chat and pick it.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
checkmk_get_versionRead the Checkmk version and edition of this site
checkmk_list_hostsList hosts from the configuration: what has been set up for monitoring, with folder, attributes and effective settings
checkmk_get_host_configRead one host's configuration: its folder, IP address, tags, labels and the attributes it inherits
checkmk_list_host_statesRead the live state of hosts: up, down or unreachable, with the check output and how long each has been that way
checkmk_list_service_statesRead the live state of services — the red, amber and green checks
checkmk_list_host_servicesRead every service on one host with its current state and check output — the drill-down after a host has been flagged
checkmk_list_host_groupsList the host groups configured on this site with their alias, so a query can be scoped to a part of the estate
checkmk_list_downtimesList scheduled downtimes with their host, service, comment, author and window — the explanation for why an alert did not fire
checkmk_list_foldersList the Checkmk folder tree with each folder's title, path and attributes — how hosts are organised and where settings are inherited from

FAQ

Does the free ChatGPT plan work with custom MCP servers? OpenAI documents custom MCP servers for paid plans only; the Free plan is not on its list.

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