Instatus MCP: status pages and incidents from your AI app

Hook Instatus up to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Instatus free and sign in with your Instatus account.
2. 2Reading status pages and incidents is harmless; creating incidents, posting updates and scheduling maintenance can go public and notify subscribers. Switch those off, or keep them on and add a policy that warns before each one.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app which components on your status page are degraded right now, then open Activity to see the call.

Status and incident work from chat

• List your status pages and check each component's current health.
• Open an incident with its affected components, then post updates as it moves to resolved.
• Schedule maintenance and post progress updates.
• Review past incidents and maintenances with their update history.

Nothing goes public by accident

• Switch off incident and maintenance posting tools; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Add a policy that warns or blocks before any call that would notify subscribers.
• Activity records every incident and update your AI app posts.

What you get with Instatus and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use InstatusClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Instatus through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Instatus tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Instatus tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Instatus. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Add Incident UpdatePost a public lifecycle update to an Instatus incident and change affected component states. This can send external notifications to page and affected-component subscribers when notify is true.
• Add Maintenance UpdatePost a public progress update to an Instatus maintenance, optionally changing its lifecycle, timing, and affected component states. This can send external notifications to page and affected-component
• Create ComponentCreate a component on an Instatus status page. This changes the page's component configuration and can make the new component and its initial health status publicly visible.
• Create IncidentCreate an incident on an Instatus status page with optional affected component states. The incident is published publicly by default; notify=true can send notifications to page and affected-component
• Create MaintenanceSchedule or start a maintenance on an Instatus status page. The required notification controls are side-effecting: notify can contact subscribers immediately, while notify_start, notify_end, and notif
• Get ComponentGet the current health and configuration of one component on an Instatus status page.
• Get IncidentGet one Instatus incident with its affected components and update history.
• Get MaintenanceGet one Instatus maintenance with its schedule, affected components, automation settings, and update history.
• List ComponentsList components and their current health for one Instatus status page, including child components where present. Pass the response's next_cursor back unchanged to fetch another page.
• List IncidentsList incidents for an Instatus status page, optionally including or excluding lifecycle statuses.
• List MaintenancesList scheduled and historical maintenances for an Instatus status page.
• List Status PagesList status pages available to the connected Instatus account so an agent can discover page IDs for component, incident, and maintenance operations.
• Update ComponentChange a component's health or presentation on an Instatus status page.
• Update IncidentEdit an existing Instatus incident's name, timing, lifecycle status, affected components, or component states. Setting notify to true sends notifications to page and affected-component subscribers.
• Update MaintenanceFully replace an Instatus maintenance's public message, schedule, lifecycle state, affected components and states, and automation settings. Call INSTATUS_GET_MAINTENANCE first and preserve unchanged v