Bring Service Health
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Gatus (Health Dashboard) to Claude Desktop and start using 4 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
GDPR Free for SubscribersCompatible with every major AI agent and IDE
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What is the Gatus (Health Dashboard) MCP Server?
Connect your Gatus health dashboard to any AI agent to monitor your services and infrastructure through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Global Visibility — List all monitored endpoints and their current health status across your entire infrastructure.
- Deep Health Inspection — Drill down into specific services to see recent results and status history using slugified keys.
- Performance Statistics — Retrieve performance metrics for individual endpoints to identify latency or reliability issues.
- Metrics Export — Access raw Prometheus-compatible metrics for deep technical analysis and custom reporting.
How it works
- Subscribe to this server
- Enter your Gatus instance URL
- Start monitoring your system health from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.
No more manual dashboard checking. Your AI acts as a 24/7 SRE assistant, providing instant insights into your service availability.
Who is this for?
- DevOps Engineers — quickly audit service health and retrieve raw metrics without leaving the terminal or IDE.
- SRE Teams — investigate performance regressions and endpoint history through natural language queries.
- Product Owners — get high-level status reports on system availability during incidents.
Built-in capabilities (4)
Get health status and recent results for a specific endpoint
Get performance statistics for a specific endpoint
Get Prometheus-compatible metrics from Gatus
Get all monitored endpoints and their current status
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Gatus (Health Dashboard) to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 4 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Gatus (Health Dashboard) in Claude Desktop
Gatus (Health Dashboard) and 4,000+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Gatus (Health Dashboard) to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 4,000+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Gatus (Health Dashboard) in Claude Desktop
The Gatus (Health Dashboard) MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 4 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Gatus (Health Dashboard) for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Gatus (Health Dashboard) MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Can I see the status of all my services at once?
Yes! Use the list_endpoints tool to retrieve a complete list of all configured endpoints and their current health status across your Gatus instance.
How do I check the performance history of a specific service?
You can use get_endpoint_stats with the endpoint's slugified key to see detailed performance statistics, or get_endpoint_health for recent health check results.
Does this server provide raw metrics for analysis?
Yes, the get_metrics tool retrieves raw Prometheus-compatible metrics exported by Gatus, allowing your AI to perform deep technical analysis.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.
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