Install PRTG in Continue
What you need first
- Continue, installed.
- Docker, which
gives the
dockercommand the server starts with. - Your own values for
YOUR_PRTG_API_KEY,YOUR_PRTG_BASE_URL.
Steps
- Open
~/.continue/config.yaml. On Windows it is%USERPROFILE%\.continue\config.yaml. - Add this entry. If the file already has
mcpServers, add only the item from- nameon.
mcpServers:
- name: "prtg-mcp"
type: stdio
command: "docker"
args:
- "run"
- "-i"
- "--rm"
- "-e"
- "PRTG_API_KEY"
- "-e"
- "PRTG_BASE_URL"
- "ghcr.io/wyre-ai/prtg-mcp:v1.0.1"
env:
"PRTG_API_KEY": "YOUR_PRTG_API_KEY"
"PRTG_BASE_URL": "YOUR_PRTG_BASE_URL" - Replace
YOUR_PRTG_API_KEY,YOUR_PRTG_BASE_URLwith your own values. - Save the file and restart Continue.
Check it worked
Ask Continue: List the tools of prtg-mcp.
If it does not start
- Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
- Docker is not running. Start it, then restart Continue.
- The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong. - Nothing changes after a restart
- The file is not valid YAML any more. Check that the entry is indented like the lines around it.