HomeLab Monitor MCP Server

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.

People who work with docker, gpu and homelab and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Python.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-17 · ★ 202 · #61 OF 120 MAINTAINED DEVOPS & MONITORING · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · Python servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install HomeLab Monitor

Docker

docker run -i --rm docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2

Claude Desktop - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sikamikanikobg-homelab-monitor": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as container (OCI image) - can be sandboxed away from your filesystem

license MIT - declared in the repository

registry namespace io.github.SikamikanikoBG is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What HomeLab Monitor can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v0.31.0 · 2026-08-16

0.30.0 split the page into two cadences - live values on a two-second stream, history charts on their own timer - and the split quietly went wrong: every number moved every two seconds while every chart sat still for…

v0.30.0 · 2026-08-08

Live values went from twenty-five seconds stale to two, and the app asks the server for less than it did before - because the fix was to stop conflating how often something is measured with how often it is stored.…

v0.29.1 · 2026-08-07

_Patch release - bug fix, rolled up into the next minor. Shipped quietly: no announcement, but the in-app updater will offer it._ · Fixed · Shared data is no longer billed to one container just because nobody else…

04 · Who maintains HomeLab Monitor

HomeLab Monitor is maintained by sikamikanikobg. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to May 2026.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/sikamikanikobg/homelab-monitor
website: https://sikamikanikobg.github.io/homelab-monitor/mcp/
category: DevOps & monitoring - ranked #61 of 120 actively-maintained DevOps & monitoring servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence: 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-08-16)
registry: io.github.SikamikanikoBG/homelab-monitor (active, first published 2026-06-09)
packages: oci:docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2

06 · HomeLab Monitor FAQ

What is 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.

Is HomeLab Monitor still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-17 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

How do I install HomeLab Monitor?

Run `docker run -i --rm docker.io/sikamikaniko123/homelab-monitor:0.14.2`. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

07 · Alternatives to HomeLab Monitor

Alternatives to HomeLab Monitor

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Pairs well with

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