Talk to your monitoring

What this is

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is the standard AI assistants use to reach outside tools. YoPingMe runs an MCP server at https://app.yoping.me/api/mcp with five read-only tools, so an assistant like Claude can read your monitors and answer questions about them. It comes with the free plan, and the free plan is the only plan today.

What you can ask

The five tools, in the order you will probably meet them:

• list_monitors: every monitor with its current status per region.
• get_uptime_report: a monitor's uptime, day by day.
• list_incidents: outages with durations and total downtime.
• get_performance_metrics: response times for a monitor.
• get_failing_checks: the actual errors a failing check got back.

Which means questions like these get real answers: "did checkout go down this week?", "how long was Tuesday's outage?", "what exactly is my API monitor seeing right now?"

How to connect Claude

In the dashboard, open the Account page and create an MCP API key. The key is shown once, so copy it then. In Claude Code, adding the server is one command:

claude mcp add --transport http yopingme https://app.yoping.me/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

Or in a project's .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yopingme": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://app.yoping.me/api/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Any MCP client works if it speaks streamable HTTP and can send an Authorization header.

What the free plan includes

Answers cover the last 7 days, with a 24-hour window for raw failing-check detail. You get 50 questions a day, and reports are per monitor. Those are the edges of the free plan, stated plainly; inside them, everything above works.

What a key can and cannot do

An MCP key reaches the MCP server and nothing else. All five tools are read-only: an assistant holding your key can look at monitoring data, never change a monitor or an alert. It is not a general API credential, and the product's REST API refuses it. You can revoke any key on the same Account page, any time.

The whole thing takes a few minutes: sign up at app.yoping.me, add a monitor, create a key, and the next "is my site up?" can go to Claude instead of a browser tab.