About apizone
apizone monitors the real-time status of 294 popular APIs using its own independent probes. It is for developers and AI agents that need read-only status checks without authentication.
Key features
- 01Monitors 294 popular APIs
- 02Reports status from independent probes
- 03Checks one or multiple API services
- 04Shows uptime and latency across time ranges
- 05Lists recent outages and degradations
Use cases
- 01Check whether an API dependency is currently failing
- 02Compare several services to identify a dependency issue
- 03Review an API's historical uptime and latency
MCP support
The hosted MCP server provides read-only status tools to clients over Streamable HTTP, with no installation, API key, or authentication required.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://apizone.io/api/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http happymealsteak-apizone https://apizone.io/api/mcp{"mcpServers":{"happymealsteak-apizone":{"type":"http","url":"https://apizone.io/api/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"happymealsteak-apizone":{"type":"http","url":"https://apizone.io/api/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"happymealsteak-apizone":{"type":"http","url":"https://apizone.io/api/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"happymealsteak-apizone":{"serverUrl":"https://apizone.io/api/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
5| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | enum | No | Filter to one category. One of: payments, ai, cloud, developer-tools, communication, email, auth, analytics, maps, commerce, social, media, data, finance, gaming, productivity, shipping, web3payments | ai | cloud | developer-tools | communication | email | auth | analytics | maps | commerce | social | media | data | finance | gaming | productivity | shipping | web3 |
Details
From the project READMEAPIzone — MCP server for API status
Is that API down? APIzone is independent, real-time status monitoring for 294 popular APIs — Stripe, OpenAI, AWS, GitHub, Twilio and more. It runs its own probes from independent infrastructure, so status reflects what's actually observed, not what a vendor's status page reports.
This repository is the public home of APIzone's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, so any AI agent — Claude, Cursor, or your own — can natively answer "is X down right now?" mid-task.
🔗 apizone.io · Status board · Incidents · API docs · MCP guide
Live examples (these badges update automatically):
Connect the MCP server
The server is hosted and stateless — no install, no build, no API key:
claude mcp add --transport http apizone https://apizone.io/api/mcp
Or point any MCP client at the Streamable-HTTP endpoint directly:
https://apizone.io/api/mcp
The server.json in this repo is the Model Context Protocol
registry manifest.
Tools
All tools are read-only and require no authentication:
| Tool | What it answers |
|---|---|
list_apis | Which APIs are monitored, and their current status (optionally by category) |
get_api_status | Is a specific API up, degraded, or down right now? |
check_apis | Status of several APIs at once — find which dependency is the culprit |
get_api_uptime | Uptime % and latency (p50/p95) over 24h / 7d / 30d / 90d |
list_recent_incidents | Recent outages and degradations, newest first |
Agent discovery is also published at
/llms.txt.
Embed a status widget
Drop a live status widget into any page:
<div data-apizone="stripe,openai,aws-s3"></div>
<script src="https://apizone.io/widget.js" async></script>
Or a single badge: https://apizone.io/badge/<slug>.svg — generator at
/badges, multi-API widget at
/widget.
Public JSON API
No key required; 60 req/min per IP:
GET /api/v1/status— all services with current status + latencyGET /api/v1/status/<slug>— one API: 24h checks, 90-day uptime, incidentsGET /api/v1/uptime/<slug>— uptime % and latency over 24h / 7d / 30d / 90d
Spec at /openapi.json; full reference at
/api-docs.
How status is derived
- Synthetic checks. APIzone probes a public, unauthenticated endpoint of
every monitored service. Any HTTP response under 500 counts as healthy (a
401fromapi.stripe.comstill proves the API is up); timeouts, network errors, and 5xx are failures. - Status. Down = recent checks all failing. Degraded = some recent failures, or latency well above the service's own baseline.
- False-positive protection. Before opening an incident, the checker re-probes once; a transient blip that recovers is suppressed, so it never alerts subscribers.
- Independent. Status reflects APIzone's own probes and may differ from a vendor's official status page.
About this repository
This is the public MCP + product home for APIzone. The monitoring service itself is hosted at apizone.io; the application source is maintained privately. Issues and suggestions for the MCP server (missing APIs, tool ideas) are welcome here.
License
MIT — see LICENSE. This covers the public docs and registry manifest in this repository; the APIzone service itself is proprietary.
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