log-mcp-server

A log analysis MCP server — tail, search, filter, and summarize logs from local files and Docker containers.

Tools

Related MCP server: Log Analyzer MCP

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/sheikhBasit/log-mcp-server
cd log-mcp-server
python -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -e .
log-mcp

Claude Desktop Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "logs": {
      "command": "/path/to/.venv/bin/log-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Usage Examples

tail the last 50 lines of /var/log/nginx/error.log
search for "timeout" in /app/logs/api.log
filter ERROR lines from /app/logs/app.log
summarize errors in the "backend" docker container
tail 100 lines from docker container "nexavoxa-api"

Running Tests

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

License

MIT

Knowledge Graph

This repo is indexed by Understand Anything — a multi-agent pipeline that builds a knowledge graph of every file, function, class, and dependency.

The graph lives at .understand-anything/knowledge-graph.json and can be explored visually:

# In Claude Code, from this repo root:
/understand-dashboard

To rebuild the graph after major changes:

~/scripts/graphify-all.sh

Graph covers: files · functions · classes · imports · architecture layers · plain-English summaries · guided tours.