{"slug": "show-hn-i-made-an-mcp-server-that-checks-172-cloud-and-saas-status-feeds", "title": "Show HN: I made an MCP server that checks 172 cloud and SaaS status feeds", "summary": "OutageDeck has launched an MCP server that checks status feeds from 172 cloud and SaaS providers, accessible at https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp. The server integrates with ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Zed, and the OpenAI Agents SDK, offering search and fetch tools with citable links. This provides developers and users a unified way to monitor service outages across major platforms.", "body_md": "ChatGPT (Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise)\n\nSettings → Connectors → **Add custom connector** → paste `https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp`\n\nand choose No authentication. The server also exposes the standard `search`\n\nand `fetch`\n\ntools, so it can be used as a research source and every answer it gives carries a citable link back to the provider page or incident it came from.\n\nClaude, on claude.ai and Claude Desktop\n\nSettings → Connectors → **Add custom connector** → paste `https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp`\n\n. The server needs no authentication, so the connector works immediately.\n\nVS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Zed, and the OpenAI Agents SDK\n\nAll of them take a remote Streamable HTTP server by URL. Point them at `https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp`\n\nin whatever the client calls its MCP server list. Clients whose connector layer only speaks Server-Sent Events are handled too: request `Accept: text/event-stream`\n\nand the same JSON-RPC comes back as an event stream.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-an-mcp-server-that-checks-172-cloud-and-saas-status-feeds", "canonical_source": "https://outagedeck.com/developers/mcp", "published_at": "2026-08-11 22:50:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 23:11:11.705332+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["OutageDeck", "ChatGPT", "Claude", "VS Code", "Gemini CLI", "Windsurf", "Zed", "OpenAI Agents SDK"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-an-mcp-server-that-checks-172-cloud-and-saas-status-feeds", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-an-mcp-server-that-checks-172-cloud-and-saas-status-feeds.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-an-mcp-server-that-checks-172-cloud-and-saas-status-feeds.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-an-mcp-server-that-checks-172-cloud-and-saas-status-feeds.jsonld"}}