Install Victoriatraces in Claude Code
What you need first
- Claude Code, installed.
- Docker, which
gives the
dockercommand the server starts with. - Your own values for
YOUR_VT_INSTANCE_ENTRYPOINT,YOUR_VT_INSTANCE_BEARER_TOKEN.
Steps
- Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that
project; put
--scope userafterclaude mcp addto have it in every project.
claude mcp add --env VT_INSTANCE_ENTRYPOINT=YOUR_VT_INSTANCE_ENTRYPOINT --env VT_INSTANCE_BEARER_TOKEN=YOUR_VT_INSTANCE_BEARER_TOKEN --transport stdio mcp-victoriatraces -- docker run -i --rm -e VT_INSTANCE_ENTRYPOINT -e VT_INSTANCE_BEARER_TOKEN ghcr.io/victoriametrics-community/mcp-victoriatraces:1.5.0 - Replace
YOUR_VT_INSTANCE_ENTRYPOINT,YOUR_VT_INSTANCE_BEARER_TOKENwith your own values. - Start Claude Code and type
/mcp: the server is listed with its state.
Check it worked
Ask Claude Code: List the tools of mcp-victoriatraces.
If it does not start
- Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
- Docker is not running. Start it, then restart Claude Code.
- The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.