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Connect AI assistants with MCP

Instatus has a hosted MCP server, so an AI assistant can read and update your status pages from a chat. It can check what's broken, post and resolve incidents, schedule maintenance, and manage components and subscribers.

Connect

Server URL:

https://mcp.instatus.com/mcp

When your assistant connects, Instatus opens in your browser. Sign in, choose Read and write or Read only, and click Allow. You don't need an API key.

Claude

  1. Open Customize → Connectors, click Add and choose Add custom connector
  2. Paste the server URL and add it
  3. Click Connect, sign in to Instatus and allow access

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http instatus https://mcp.instatus.com/mcp

Then run /mcp in Claude Code and choose instatus to sign in.

Cursor

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "instatus": {
      "url": "https://mcp.instatus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT and other assistants

Add a custom MCP server or connector with the server URL. Any client that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth sign-in works.

Read only or read and write

The assistant works as you, with the same pages and permissions you have in the dashboard.

  • Read only lets it look at your pages, incidents, maintenance, components and subscribers. Instatus refuses every change, so this holds whatever the assistant tries.
  • Read and write also lets it post and edit incidents and maintenance, change components and manage subscribers.

What you can ask

  • "Is anything broken on our status page?"
  • "Open an incident: the API is returning errors in Europe. Don't notify subscribers yet."
  • "Post an update that the fix is deploying."
  • "Resolve the incident and set the API back to operational."
  • "Schedule database maintenance on Sunday from 2 to 4am UTC."
  • "Log yesterday's email outage from 14:00 to 15:00."
  • "How many subscribers do we have?"

Safeguards

  • Notifying subscribers is a separate choice. Every post says whether subscribers are notified, and nothing is sent to them unless the assistant asks for it.
  • No accidental duplicates. If an incident with the same title is already open on the same components, a new one is refused and the assistant is pointed to the open one.
  • Permanent actions are marked. Deleting an incident or a component and cancelling maintenance are marked as destructive, so your assistant can check with you first.

Disconnect

Go to Developer settings and click Disconnect next to the app under Connected apps. Removing the connector from your assistant alone doesn't revoke its access.

Privacy

Instatus only sends data in answer to your assistant's requests. What your assistant reads is then handled under your assistant provider's terms. See our privacy policy.