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Kafka Sentinel MCP Server

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Kafka Sentinel runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 109 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 31 Jul 2026.

Read-only Kafka observability MCP server: cluster health, consumer lag, and replay-readiness.

Installs per day peak 55 · avg 24 · -47% w/w
a month agotoday
109
Installs / week
pypi · kafka-sentinel-mcp
3
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31 Jul 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Kafka Sentinel every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add kafka-sentinel-mcp -- uvx kafka-sentinel-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kafka-sentinel-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "kafka-sentinel-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.kafka-sentinel-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["kafka-sentinel-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kafka-sentinel-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "kafka-sentinel-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kafka-sentinel-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "kafka-sentinel-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP (Kafka bootstrap servers, e.g. broker1:9092,broker2:9092), KAFKA_SECURITY_PROTOCOL (librdkafka security.protocol, e.g. SASL_SSL), KAFKA_SASL_MECHANISM (librdkafka sasl.mechanism, e.g. PLAIN or SCRAM-SHA-512), KAFKA_SASL_USERNAME (SASL username), KAFKA_SASL_PASSWORD (SASL password), KAFKA_SSL_CA_LOCATION (Path to CA certificate for SSL). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Kafka Sentinel — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Kafka Sentinel?
Kafka Sentinel runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package kafka-sentinel-mcp was installed 109 times last week.
How do I connect Kafka Sentinel?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls kafka-sentinel-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Kafka Sentinel?
The pypi package kafka-sentinel-mcp was installed 109 times in the last week. Week over week that is -47%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Kafka Sentinel open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 3 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.