loki-mcp vs everything

Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.

	loki-mcp by grafana	everything by modelcontextprotocol
Stars	★ 141	★ 85,748
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Score	51	77
Official	—	✓
Categories	MonitoringDeveloper ToolsOps & Infra	Developer ToolsAI / LLM ToolsOther
Language	Go	TypeScript
Last commit	this month	this month

loki-mcp · Summary

A production-ready MCP server for querying Grafana Loki logs with comprehensive documentation and multiple deployment options.

everything · Summary

Official MCP test server exercising all protocol features for client builders.

loki-mcp · Use cases

Enable AI assistants to query logs across systems during debugging sessions
Integrate log querying capabilities into AI-powered monitoring workflows
Provide natural language access to Loki logs for non-technical team members

everything · Use cases

Testing MCP client implementations against all protocol features
Learning MCP protocol capabilities through a reference server
Validating client compatibility with different transport methods

loki-mcp · Install

Installation

Building from Source

go build -o loki-mcp-server ./cmd/server
./loki-mcp-server

Using Docker

docker build -t loki-mcp-server .
docker run --rm -i loki-mcp-server

Claude Desktop Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lokiserver": {
      "command": "/path/to/loki-mcp-server",
      "env": {
        "LOKI_URL": "http://localhost:3100",
        "LOKI_ORG_ID": "your-org-id"
      },
      "autoApprove": ["loki_query"]
    }
  }
}

everything · Install

NPX (recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

On Windows, use cmd /c:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "cmd",
      "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "everything": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "mcp/everything"]
    }
  }
}

Global install

npm install -g @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything@latest
npx @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything

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