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tv.tootie/syslog-mcp·v0.27.2·Monitoring & Logs
Quality Score
85
/100

Syslog receiver and MCP server for homelab log intelligence.

§00  Trust verdict · v1 advisory ·  method
UNVERIFIEDno verdict on file

Verdict not yet evaluated for this tool. The hybrid eval runs adversarial cases first; coverage rolls out as the corpus expands. Until a verdict is recorded, an agent should treat this tool as not-yet-cleared and fall back to its own checks. Method: hybrid eval, four-state verdict, honest limits.

§01  Install
Remote endpoint

Streamable HTTP / SSE endpoint. Add to any MCP client that supports remote servers.

https://syslog.tootie.tv/mcp
Claude Desktop (Docker)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "syslog-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "-i",
        "ghcr.io/jmagar/syslog-mcp:0.27.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SYSLOG_HOST": "<syslog_host>",
        "SYSLOG_MCP_TOKEN": "<your-syslog_mcp_token>",
        "SYSLOG_PORT": "<syslog_port>"
      }
    }
  }
}
§02  Environment variables
SYSLOG_HOST
required

Hostname or IP of the syslog listener.

SYSLOG_MCP_TOKEN
secret

Bearer token for MCP endpoint authentication.

SYSLOG_PORT

Syslog listener port (UDP + TCP). Default: 1514.

§03  MCP Quality Score  ·  methodology
freshness
25
completeness
15
installability
25
documentation
15
stability
5
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