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Cloud Monitoring

This project provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with tools for the IBM Cloud Monitoring service

Install

See Getting Started for installation instructions.

This configuration uses tools which requires the CLI plugin monitoring to be installed. Run the following commands to install the plugins if they are not already installed:

ibmcloud plugin install monitoring

⚙️ Configurations

The following example MCP configurations can be found in the configs folder to help get started with cloud monitoring use cases:

Each of the above configurations also includes the following essential tools:

  • assist - Detailed IBM Cloud Assistance "Assist me with IBMCLOUD_TOPIC..."
  • resource-groups - Getting lists of the available resource groups
  • catalog_locations - Getting available regions
  • target - Change the account, resource group, region or cloud API endpoint being used as the current working context for tools.

🗣️ Prompts

The MCP Prompt feature is not currently implemented in the IBM Cloud MCP Servers; however, here are some prompts that you can use to get started using the tools:

System Prompts

✂️ Cut/Paste this section as a system prompt before other User prompts

See the Core for common system prompts to use before these service-specific prompts.

Important information for working with Cloud Montiroing: When calling the ibmcloud_monitoring_service-instances native tool, by default, select all-resource-groups and all-regions

User Prompts

  • 🗣️ List all of the monitoring service instances

Common Prompts

  • 🗣️ Assist me with IBM_CLOUD_TOPIC
  • 🗣️ What resource groups are in my account?
  • 🗣️ Target the RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME resource group

NOTE: The above common commands are from the Core set of tools and included in the iac configuration examples above. There are many other core commands for working with access, accounts, users, services, resource searching, etc. that can be used simply by adding the tool names to the config.