API Status Check MCP Server (io.github.shibley/apistatuscheck)

This MCP server provides tools to check real-time uptime and incident status for a set of APIs and cloud services. It supports monitoring for 114+ cloud services and APIs, and describes checks for “real-time operational status” and availability from AI coding assistants.

🛠️ Key Features

Checks real-time uptime and incident status
Monitors 114+ cloud services and APIs (described as 285 APIs and cloud services)
Tooling includes: check_status, list_apis, list_categories, check_category, check_url

🚀 Use Cases

Query the status of a specific API (e.g., github, openai, stripe)
Retrieve all monitored APIs and their current status
Check all APIs within a service category
Verify availability of any public URL

⚡ Developer Benefits

Supports multiple operational workflows via eight tools (toolCount: 8)
Categorized listing and category-based checks (list_categories, check_category)

⚠️ Limitations

Only “public URL” availability is supported via check_url
Coverage is limited to monitored services (114+ / 285, as described)

API Status Check MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for checking real-time operational status of 285 cloud services and APIs directly from AI coding assistants.

Features

Tool	Description
`check_status`	Check the status of a specific API (e.g. `github`, `openai`, `stripe`)
`list_apis`	List all monitored APIs and their current status
`list_categories`	List available service categories (cloud, payments, etc.)
`check_category`	Check all APIs in a specific category
`check_url`	Check any public URL for availability

Supported Services

AWS, GitHub, Stripe, OpenAI, Vercel, Cloudflare, Datadog, PagerDuty, Twilio, Shopify, Slack, Zoom, and 270+ more. Full list at apistatuscheck.com.

Quick Start

Hosted endpoint (recommended — nothing to install)

The server is also hosted, so the fastest path is the remote Streamable HTTP endpoint. This is the same entry the official MCP Registry advertises as io.github.shibley/apistatuscheck.

bash

claude mcp add --transport http apistatuscheck https://apistatuscheck.com/api/mcp

For stdio-only clients:

bash

npx -y mcp-remote https://apistatuscheck.com/api/mcp

Using npx

bash

npx -y apistatuscheck-mcp-server

Broken on published version 0.1.0. That tarball's dist/index.js shipped without a #!/usr/bin/env node shebang, so the shim was executed by sh instead of Node and the command failed with command not found. Fixed in this repo (shebang added, plus an apistatuscheck-mcp-server bin alias so the command matches the package name), but the fix is not on npm yet — 0.1.1 needs to be published. Until then, build from source:
bash
git clone https://github.com/shibley/apistatuscheck-mcp-server.git
cd apistatuscheck-mcp-server && npm install && npm run build
node dist/index.js

Using Docker

bash

docker build -t apistatuscheck-mcp .
docker run -i apistatuscheck-mcp

Configuration

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json. This points at the hosted endpoint — do not use "args": ["-y", "apistatuscheck-mcp-server"], because the only version on npm (0.1.0) is the broken one described above and fails silently.

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apistatuscheck": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://apistatuscheck.com/api/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor / Other MCP Clients

Same hosted endpoint via mcp-remote:

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apistatuscheck": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://apistatuscheck.com/api/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
`ASC_BASE_URL`	`https://apistatuscheck.com`	Base URL for the API

Local Development

bash

git clone https://github.com/shibley/apistatuscheck-mcp-server.git
cd apistatuscheck-mcp-server
npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js

License

MIT — Bity LLC

category	string	optional	Category slug to filter by, e.g. "ai" — omit for all categories.
limit	integer	optional	Max results (default 25).

query	string	required	Free-text query, e.g. "openai" or "payments".
limit	integer	optional	Max results (default 25).

slug	string	required	API slug, e.g. "openai".
range	string	optional	Window to return data points for (default 24h).

service	string	required	API slug, e.g. "openai". Use search_apis to resolve a name.
window	string	optional	Time window: 7d, 30d, 90d, 180d, 365d, all (default 90d).
limit	integer	optional	Max incidents (default 25).

services	array	required	API slugs to compare, e.g. ["openai","anthropic","vercel"].
window	string	optional	Time window: 7d, 30d, 90d, 180d, 365d, all (default 90d).

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