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Inside stories from building EU-hosted uptime monitoring at scale: the engineering calls, the billing decisions, and the lessons we wish we'd had earlier.
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Platform Update August 2026: nine check locations and alerts that name the blocker
Two new check locations, alerts that name who refused the request, status page subscriptions and our own measured availability: every August change in one post.
MCP Server Security: Read-only, Token Scopes and Human Approval
Why an AI agent can read your Uptimeify data but has no structural path to write anything.
What Is an MCP Server? Definition, Function and Practice
An MCP server is the standardised interface an AI assistant uses to call real tools instead of guessing.
Agency Workflows with MCP and n8n: Client Status Without a Dashboard Login
Your assistant reads monitors, incidents and uptime itself, and answers your client's status question in seconds.
Connect an MCP Server to Claude: 20 Network Checks, No Account
One line of configuration, and your AI assistant checks DNS, SSL, SPF and reachability for any domain right in the chat.
Platform Update July 2026: 27 changes, two of them ask something of you
New probe locations, a full data export, TCP port monitoring and a second SMS carrier: every change from July in one post.
Uptimeify Joins the OVHcloud Startup Program: Scaling Our European Infrastructure
Uptimeify has been accepted into the OVHcloud Startup Program. That accelerates the buildout of our European monitoring infrastructure.
Monitoring Strategy for a Client Portfolio: what, how often, and from where
The decision framework for your client portfolio: which monitor types per client, which intervals, which alert thresholds.
Check Interval, Timeout and Multi-Node: How Reliable Monitoring Actually Works
Check interval, timeout profiles and consensus across several EU locations: the three dials that turn a bare ping into monitoring you can trust.
