Ask Claude if a service is down

What it exposes, honestly

The keyless endpoint (https://mcp.realuptime.io/public) serves exactly five read-only tools, all over RealUptime's own probe measurements of the services on the outage tracker. Nothing here reads or changes an account: no monitors, no status pages, no incidents. That is what the separate, key-authenticated endpoint does, documented in full on the technical reference.

• is_service_down
• get_regional_readings
• get_report_volume
• list_recent_incidents
• get_stack

Every answer carries the regions actually read, a measurement timestamp, an explicit freshness verdict, and a URL to cite. "Blocked" means our probe was refused and is never reported as "down"; a no-data answer is never a healthy answer; a service we do not track answers "not covered" rather than a guess. Same rules as the rest of the tracker, set out in full on the methodology page.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http realuptime-outages https://mcp.realuptime.io/public

Claude Desktop, or any MCP client using a JSON config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "realuptime-outages": {
      "url": "https://mcp.realuptime.io/public"
    }
  }
}

Limits

60 requests per minute per IP address: an anonymous call cannot be attributed to an account, and unlike the public outage JSON endpoint an MCP response cannot be cached, so every call is a real read. One assistant question costs about four requests, roughly fifteen questions a minute from one address. If you share an outbound address with a lot of other people, or need sustained access, the key-authenticated endpoint has its own larger budget; see the full reference for setup.

Your own monitors, from the same server

The same MCP server also exposes your RealUptime account over a second, key-authenticated endpoint: list and manage monitors, read status pages, and open or update incidents, mirroring the REST API exactly. Free accounts get read-only access; Growth and Scale unlock the write tools. Full tool list, authentication, and setup on the MCP server reference.