#API & Automation
Posts tagged “API & Automation”
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.
Setting Up Monitoring Alerts in Slack, Teams & via Webhook
Setup per channel: Slack, Microsoft Teams, webhook, plus the webhook payload structure (JSON) for your own pipelines. With examples.
Monitoring Cron Jobs & Backups: When Silent Background Processes Fail
Why failed backups and cron jobs so often go unnoticed, and how a dead man's switch catches the silent failure. With a setup walkthrough.
Onboarding Client Sites Without the Overhead: Provisioning via API
Provision new client sites in minutes via REST API and custom fields instead of setting them up by hand: how agencies automate onboarding.