INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

updown_add_recipient

Add an alert recipient: an email address, phone number (sms), webhook URL, Slack-compatible incoming-webhook URL, or Microsoft Teams webhook URL.

usefulapi.ionone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://updown-io.usefulapi.io/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for updown_add_recipient and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Potential side effects detected · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.updown-io-mcp]
url = "https://updown-io.usefulapi.io/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "updown-io-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://updown-io.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: updown-io-mcp
Remote MCP URL: https://updown-io.usefulapi.io/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "updown-io-mcp": {
      "url": "https://updown-io.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "updown-io-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://updown-io.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "updown-io-mcp",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://updown-io.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

updown_list_checks — List all monitoring checks on the account with their status (down, uptime, last_status, error), period, SSL certificate and domain-expiry info.
updown_get_check — Fetch a single check by token, optionally with the last hour of performance metrics and/or the detailed results of the last 5 requests.
updown_list_downtimes — List the downtimes of one check, newest first, 100 per page: error, started_at, ended_at, duration (seconds) and a details URL.
updown_get_check_metrics — Get aggregated metrics for one check over a time range: uptime, apdex, timings (redirect/namelookup/connection/handshake/response/total, ms) and request counts by response time.
updown_find_problems — One-call health overview across every check: which are DOWN (since when, error), which have an invalid SSL certificate, which certificates or domains expire within N days, and which checks are paused or muted.
updown_list_recipients — List the alert recipients/channels on the account (email, sms, slack, telegram, webhook, zapier, .
updown_list_status_pages — List the account's status pages: token, public URL, name, description, visibility (public/protected/private) and the ordered check tokens shown.
updown_list_nodes — List updown.