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Pingoru in Claude

Pingoru is listed in Claude's connector directory. Once you add it, Claude can check the official status page of any service Pingoru tracks: whether it is down, which parts are affected, and what happened in the last 30 days. It is free and needs no Pingoru account.

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Looking for the overview? See Pingoru for Claude. For the full tool reference, response fields and the keyed endpoint, see MCP endpoint.

Add Pingoru to Claude

  1. Open Pingoru in Claude's directory.
  2. Add it to your Claude account. There is no Pingoru account to create and nothing to sign in to.
  3. Start a chat and ask about a service, for example "Is GitHub down right now?"

If Claude asks for permission the first time it uses a Pingoru tool, allow it. Pingoru's tools only read; see what Pingoru receives.

Other ways to connect

  • Custom connector. In Claude, open Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector and enter https://pingoru.io/api/mcp-public/. It gives the same tools as the directory listing.
  • Claude Code. Run once in a terminal: claude mcp add --transport http pingoru https://pingoru.io/api/mcp-public/
  • Other MCP clients (Cursor, Cline, Zed and others) use the same address. Setup snippets are on the MCP page.

What you can ask

Claude chooses the tool that fits your question. Each one is read-only. Service names are matched loosely: "aws", "gcp", "m365" or a small typo still finds the right service.

Ask something likeClaude usesWhat it gets
"Is GitHub down right now?"Check a service's status
provider_status		The current status, any open incidents, and maintenance under way or coming up.
"Which AWS regions are having problems?"List a service's components
provider_components		Every component the vendor lists, or only the ones with a problem.
"Is the Stripe API itself working?"Check one component
component_status		One component by name, and the incident it is part of, if any.
"What incidents did OpenAI have in the last two weeks?"Recent incidents for a service
provider_incidents		Incidents and maintenance from the last 1 to 30 days, with start and end times and how long they lasted.
"Walk me through that outage, update by update."Read one incident
incident_detail		Every update the vendor posted, with its time, and the components involved.
"Which status page does Planetscale use?"Find a service
search_providers		Services matching a name, a short name or a typo.
"Tell me when Cloudflare is back to normal."Get a link to set up an alert
alert_signup_link		A link to the Pingoru page where you enter an email address. Nothing is set up until you do.

Each answer comes with links: to the service's page on Pingoru, to the incident's own page when one incident is involved, and to the vendor's status page.

Getting an alert

Ask Claude to let you know when a service recovers or breaks, and it gives you a link to that service's page on Pingoru with the alert form open. Enter your email address there and confirm it. The connector cannot sign you up by itself: it never receives your email address.

What Pingoru receives

  • Only the tool call Claude makes: which tool, and the service name, search words or incident id it asked about.
  • Never your conversation, your name or your Claude account.
  • The request log is kept for 90 days, with a one-way hash of the calling address instead of the address. See the privacy policy.

Data and limits

  • Freshness. Pingoru reads each status page every 5 to 10 minutes.
  • History. Claude can look back 30 days. Each service's outage history page on Pingoru shows 90 days.
  • Rate limit. Requests from Claude are counted together, up to 600 a minute. In normal use you will not reach it.
  • Coverage. Every service Pingoru tracks. Search for one on the providers page.

Troubleshooting

Claude answers without using Pingoru
Ask it directly, for example "Use Pingoru to check whether Stripe is down." Check that Pingoru is still turned on in your Claude connectors.
Claude says it cannot find a service
Ask it to search Pingoru for the name. If Pingoru does not track the service yet, send us its status page and we will add it.
The answer differs from the vendor's page
Pingoru may be up to 10 minutes behind the vendor. If it still differs after that, tell us which service and we will compare the two.
Claude reports an error from Pingoru
Try again in a minute. If it keeps happening, email [email protected] with the time and the question you asked.

Remove Pingoru from Claude

Open Settings, Connectors in Claude and remove Pingoru. Claude stops calling Pingoru straight away. There is nothing to delete on our side: we hold no account for you.

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