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Go from alert to fix with MCPs for logs, metrics, incidents and code
An SRE team gave its LLM MCPs for Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Incident.io, GitHub and server inventory.
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- 0 replies to HN commentComment in “Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?” (198 points, 201 comments) · fetched Oct 15, 2026
What they did
At a past job, alexpotato’s team had MCPs for Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Incident.io, GitHub and a custom server inventory.
How it went
He says the LLM could start from an alert, find its source in code and check metrics, automating a lot of alert toil.
Worth knowing
The value comes from combining sources.
Builder recipe
Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.
Stack
- MCPs for logs, metrics, incidents and code
- An LLM agent
Steps
- Write down the manual process step by step.
- Automate the deterministic parts with plain workflow steps or scripts.
- Use the model only where judgment is needed, with confidence checks.
- Add alerts and a human fallback.
Starter prompt
Alert [name] fired. Find where it is defined in the repo, pull the related metrics and logs for the last hour, and summarize the likely cause and a safe fix.Tags
Read the original
- Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567658 ↗ (opens in new tab) Sep 4, 2026 · HN comment, 0 replies, thread: 198 points, 201 comments (fetched 2026-10-15)
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