VMware Log Insight

Name: VMware Log Insight
Author: vmware-skills

by vmware-skillsversion 2.4.1i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.vmware-skills/vmware-log-insight

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Read-only VMware Aria Operations for Logs (Log Insight): search + aggregation. 7 MCP tools.

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Search & AI memory

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

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Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
You fill in yourself: VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_CONFIG

You need

PyPIPython’s uv installed (for the uvx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vmware-log-insight": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "vmware-log-insight",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_CONFIG": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add vmware-log-insight --env VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_CONFIG=your-value -- uvx vmware-log-insight mcp

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vmware-log-insight": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "vmware-log-insight",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_CONFIG": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "vmware-log-insight": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "vmware-log-insight",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_CONFIG": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

This one runs on your computer, and ChatGPT can only connect to servers on the internet. Pick another app.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

Values you fill in

VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_CONFIG env
Path to the config file. Defaults to ~/.vmware-log-insight/config.yaml.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

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Endpoint responds
This one runs on your computer; there is no internet endpoint
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Sign-in with OAuth
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No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
Runs on your computer; we can only read tool lists from internet endpoints

Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

More stars than 0% of the other 7286 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 65% of the other 7286 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 7286 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is VMware Log Insight safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (2.4.1) reached the registry 21 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Python (uv) on your computer.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

Open the README

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VMware Log Insight

For a read-only check of this skill with your model and agent host, use the shared model-fit self-test in the marketplace root.

Disclaimer: Community-maintained open-source project, **not affiliated with,

endorsed by, or sponsored by VMware, Inc. or Broadcom Inc.** "VMware", "vSphere",

and "Aria" are trademarks of Broadcom. Source is publicly auditable under the MIT license.

Read-only log search and aggregation for VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) — the appliance that collects syslog from ESXi hosts, vCenter, and VMs. The centralized-log data source for the VMware skill family. Strictly non-destructive: it queries, it never writes.

Upgrading to 2.0

2.0 renames all 7 MCP tools so every name starts with a verb (e.g. alert_get → get_log_alert, alert_history → get_log_alert_history, alert_list → list_log_alerts). The full old → new table is in RELEASE_NOTES.md. Nothing else changes: same tools, parameters, safety gates and CLI commands. If an agent prompt, script or ~/.vmware/rules.yaml names a tool, update it — though deny rules written with the old names keep working with vmware-policy ≥ 1.18 (vmware-audit policy lists any rule the renames widened), and vmware-pilot ≥ 1.13 translates old names in saved workflows. If an install older than 2.0 shares that rules.yaml, give it vmware-policy ≥ 1.18.2 too: it matches each rule against both the old and the new name, so one file serves both.

Companion Skills

Need	Skill	Tools
Raw centralized logs + spikes	vmware-log-insight (this)	7
vCenter events & alarms	vmware-monitor	27
Metrics, anomalies, capacity	vmware-aria	28
Incident correlation / root cause	vmware-debug — feed it `search_logs` output	2
VM lifecycle / operations	vmware-aiops	49

Install

uv tool install vmware-log-insight

mkdir -p ~/.vmware-log-insight cp config.example.yaml ~/.vmware-log-insight/config.yaml # edit host/username/provider echo 'VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_PROD_PASSWORD=...' > ~/.vmware-log-insight/.env chmod 600 ~/.vmware-log-insight/.env vmware-log-insight doctor

Offline / Air-Gapped Install (from source)

This project uses the modern PEP 517 build system (hatchling), so there is no `setup.py` by design — that is expected, not a missing file. If you cloned the source and hit ERROR: File "setup.py" or "setup.cfg" not found ... editable mode currently requires a setuptools-based build, your pip is older than 21.3 and cannot do an *editable* (-e) install with a non-setuptools backend. Editable mode is a developer convenience, not needed to run the tool — do one of:

# From the source tree — a normal (non-editable) install builds a wheel:

pip install . # NOT pip install -e .

...or upgrade pip first, and editable works too:

pip install --upgrade pip && pip install -e .

For a truly air-gapped host, build the wheels on a connected machine and copy them over — the target then needs no network:

# On a connected machine, collect this package + its dependencies as wheels:

pip wheel . -w dist # → dist/*.whl (or: uv build, for just this package)

Copy dist/ to the air-gapped host, then install offline:

pip install --no-index --find-links dist vmware-log-insight

MCP Tools (7 — all read-only)

Tool	What
`search_logs`	Search events by time window + text (whole-token match), up to 200 events
`aggregate_logs`	Count/aggregate over time bins (UCOUNT/AVG/... of a `field`), with z-score spike detection
`list_log_fields`	List the appliance's fields (name + type), for `aggregate_logs` `field`
`get_log_insight_version`	Appliance version/build
`list_log_alerts` / `get_log_alert` / `get_log_alert_history`	Query defined alerts and their trigger history

Workflows

Find errors fast — vmware-log-insight search -q error -l 1h.
Where did logs burst? — vmware-log-insight aggregate -q error -l 6h --bin-ms 300000, read spikes[], then search the spike window.
Root cause — pass search_logs results (plus vCenter events from vmware-monitor and metrics from vmware-aria) to vmware-debug build_incident_timeline.

Troubleshooting

401 on /sessions → check username/password/provider and the VMWARE_LOG_INSIGHT_ _PASSWORD env var.
503 everywhere → appliance starting up; doctor reports it as a status, not a crash.
Empty results → widen --last; text matches whole words, not substrings (try word*); default API port is 9543 (set port if different).
UCOUNT needs a field → pass --field (names from fields); COUNT and SAMPLE take none.

Security

Read-only by construction. Credentials in ~/.vmware-log-insight/.env (chmod 600); plaintext passwords auto-obfuscated to grep-safe b64: (obfuscation, not encryption — inject from a secret manager for real secrecy). TLS on by default. See SECURITY.md.

Remote access (HTTPS) and limiting tools

By default vmware-log-insight mcp speaks stdio to one local client and offers every tool. Two options change that (vmware-policy ≥ 1.21.0).

Serve over HTTPS so clients on other machines can connect. Every caller needs a bearer token:

vmware-audit token create alice          # prints the token once; give it to alice

vmware-audit token list # names only vmware-audit token revoke alice # refused from its next request, no restart vmware-log-insight mcp --transport https --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8443 \ --cert /etc/vmware-mcp/server.pem --key /etc/vmware-mcp/server-key.pem \ --public-name mcp.example.com

Connect a client (Claude Code shown; any MCP client that supports streamable HTTP and custom headers works):

claude mcp add --transport http vmware-log-insight https://mcp.example.com:8443/mcp \

--header "Authorization: Bearer $VMWARE_MCP_TOKEN"

"mcpServers": { "vmware-log-insight": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.example.com:8443/mcp", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer ${VMWARE_MCP_TOKEN}" } } } }

The server will not start without a token, refuses Host/Origin values outside --public-name, and checks before it binds that unauthenticated requests get 401. Use a certificate your clients trust for those names.
Behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy on the same machine use --transport http --host 127.0.0.1 --public-name mcp.example.com and pass the Authorization header through.
Behind a load balancer or gateway on another machine, keep --transport https (a self-signed certificate is fine), list in --public-name the host name the balancer sends as Host, and have it forward Authorization. Its health probe can use GET /healthz, which needs no token and returns only {"status": "ok"} (vmware-policy ≥ 1.23.0).
Send traceparent or X-Request-ID with each request to have it stored on the audit row; vmware-audit log --correlation-id ID then finds the calls behind one platform request.
The audit log records each caller as token: . Calls run side by side, with or without a target: each target keeps up to VMWARE_MCP_POOL_SIZE sessions (default 2), and each session is a login on the target. A call that finds them all busy waits at most 300 s for one.
Everyone who can reach the endpoint acts with this server's account. Tokens identify callers; they grant nothing on the platform. Run one endpoint per privilege level.
Several people or roles on one endpoint: run vmware-audit roles enable once, then give each token a role (vmware-audit token create NAME --role reader, or a role in roles.yaml naming tools and targets; vmware-policy ≥ 1.24.0). A role limits what the token may call on this endpoint; it cannot grant more than the account has. See vmware-policy's README, "Roles for network callers".

Limiting tools: every tool of this server is read-only, so --expose read changes nothing here; it exists for the write-capable skills. Least privilege comes from the account the server uses.

Details: skills/vmware-log-insight/references/setup-guide.md ("Serving MCP over HTTPS", "Limiting which tools are offered").

License

MIT.

VMware Log Insight

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

Common questions

Alternatives

Context7

Codebase Memory

Exa

README from the maker

VMware Log Insight

Upgrading to 2.0

Companion Skills

Install

Offline / Air-Gapped Install (from source)

...or upgrade pip first, and editable works too:

Copy dist/ to the air-gapped host, then install offline:

MCP Tools (7 — all read-only)

Workflows

Troubleshooting

Security

Remote access (HTTPS) and limiting tools

License