Bring Service Health
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Gatus (Health Dashboard) to Windsurf 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 Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Gatus (Health Dashboard) tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 4 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 4 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
Gatus (Health Dashboard) in Windsurf
Gatus (Health Dashboard) and 4,000+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Gatus (Health Dashboard) to Windsurf 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 Windsurf
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 Windsurf 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 Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf 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 Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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