Betterstack MCP Server

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Betterstack is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 1 Sep 2026.

Read monitors, incidents, heartbeats, on-call and status pages; acknowledge or resolve incidents.

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 3%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

177 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 1 Sep 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Betterstack every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add betterstack --transport http https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "betterstack": {
      "url": "https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.betterstack]
url = "https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "betterstack": {
      "url": "https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "betterstack": {
      "url": "https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

acknowledge

acknowledge_incident

Acknowledge an ongoing incident, signalling that someone is looking into it (stops further escalation). Idempotent-ish: acknowledging an already-acknowledged incident returns HTTP 409. Uptime API: POST /api/v3/incidents/{id}/acknowledge.

call

list_on_call

List on-call calendars/schedules and the users currently on call for escalation. Useful to see who gets paged. Uptime API: GET /api/v2/on-calls.

heartbeats

list_heartbeats

List heartbeats (cron/background-job monitors that expect a periodic ping), with period, grace, and status (up/down/paused/pending). Uptime API: GET /api/v2/heartbeats.

incident

get_incident

Get a single incident by id, including cause, status, timeline timestamps (started/acknowledged/resolved), who acknowledged/resolved it, and the related monitor. Uptime API: GET /api/v3/incidents/{id}.

incidents

list_incidents

List incidents (alerts triggered by monitors/heartbeats), filterable by date range, monitor, and acknowledged/resolved state. Each incident carries cause, started_at, acknowledged_at, resolved_at. Uptime API: GET /api/v3/incidents.

monitor

get_monitor

Get a single monitor by id, including current status, last_checked_at, SSL/HTTP settings, regions, and alerting configuration. Uptime API: GET /api/v2/monitors/{id}.

monitors

list_monitors

List uptime monitors with their status (up/down/paused/pending/maintenance/validating), check frequency, and alert settings. Good first call to discover what is being monitored. Uptime API: GET /api/v2/monitors.

resolve

resolve_incident

Resolve an ongoing incident, marking it as handled/closed. Idempotent-ish: resolving an already-resolved incident returns HTTP 409. Uptime API: POST /api/v3/incidents/{id}/resolve.

status

list_status_pages

List public/private status pages with company name, subdomain, aggregate_state, and published flag. Uptime API: GET /api/v2/status-pages.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://betterstack.usefulapi.io/mcp	streamable-http	answering	203 ms	9 min ago

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Betterstack — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Betterstack do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: acknowledge_incident, get_incident, get_monitor, list_heartbeats, list_incidents, list_monitors and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Betterstack working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 177 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Betterstack?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Betterstack need an API key?

No. Betterstack completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Betterstack?

It answers our handshake in 177 ms on average, which is faster than 70% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Betterstack open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.