Read monitors, incidents, heartbeats, on-call and status pages; acknowledge or resolve incidents. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the Better Stack connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For DevOps and on-call engineers who watch uptime and incidents with Better Stack.
The AI lists uptime monitors with their status, check frequency and alert settings. You see what is down right now and what is paused.
The AI lists incidents filtered by date range, monitor, and acknowledged or resolved state. It shows cause, start and resolve times, so you can see how long each lasted.
The AI reads the on-call schedules and the users currently on call for escalation. You see who gets paged.
The AI lists heartbeats with their period, grace time and status. You see which periodic jobs stopped pinging.
The AI finds an ongoing incident, then acknowledges it so escalation stops, or resolves it as handled.
Changes dataThe AI lists public and private status pages with company name, subdomain, aggregate state and published flag.
The login page asks for your Better Stack Uptime API token.
Find it in Better Stack → Settings → API tokens (Uptime). Your token is used only to call the API on your behalf and to derive a private account id; it is never shown to anyone.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"betterstack": {
"url": "https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"betterstack": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Better Stack Uptime API token. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Pro | $9/mo · $90/yr | 10,000 tool calls / month |
| Pro+ | $39/mo · $390/yr | 100,000 tool calls / month |
Each paid plan covers this Better Stack server only. Ask your AI to run betterstack_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. The change requires your confirmation, keeps your billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. Cancel any time with betterstack_cancel_subscription: your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and asking to resume the same plan with betterstack_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
betterstack_list_monitorsbetterstack_get_monitorbetterstack_list_incidentsbetterstack_get_incidentbetterstack_list_heartbeatsbetterstack_list_on_callbetterstack_list_status_pagesbetterstack_acknowledge_incidentbetterstack_resolve_incidentbetterstack_usage_statusbetterstack_request_featurebetterstack_upgradebetterstack_cancel_subscriptionCheck which monitors are down or paused. Review incidents from a date range. Find out who is on call. Check heartbeats of cron and background jobs. Acknowledge or resolve an incident. Check the state of your status pages. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Better Stack. The server calls the Better Stack API with your own Better Stack access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Better Stack Uptime API token. See Before you connect for where to find it.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Better Stack Uptime API token. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Better Stack API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Better Stack.
Yes, if you approve it. 2 of the 9 Better Stack tools can create or change data. The other 7 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with 10,000 tool calls / month. Pro+ costs $39/mo or $390/yr, with 100,000 tool calls / month. Each subscription covers this Better Stack server only. Cancel any time: your paid plan then runs to the end of the paid period. Run betterstack_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run betterstack_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. After you confirm, your existing subscription changes in place, keeps its billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. To cancel, run betterstack_cancel_subscription. Your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with betterstack_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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