Bring HostTracker monitoring into your AI assistant
Connect HostTracker over the Model Context Protocol and run instant website checks from 300+ global locations — right inside Claude and other AI assistants. Ask whether a site is up, resolve DNS, look for blacklist listings, trace routes and more, in plain language.
Real checks from your AI, in plain language
HostTracker's MCP server exposes your assistant to the same instant-check engine behind the homepage tool — now driven by conversation and run from 300+ worldwide locations.
Up anywhere in the world
Check HTTP/S status and response time for any URL from 300+ locations, so you see whether it's down everywhere or only in some regions.
Ping, port & traceroute
ICMP ping, TCP port reachability, and traceroute from multiple countries — find where connectivity actually breaks.
DNS & blacklists
Run a DNS query, or check whether a domain or IP is on a DNS blacklist (DNSBL) or the Russian registry blacklist.
WHOIS & Web Risk
Look up WHOIS registration details, and check a site against Google Web Risk for phishing and malware flags.
Per-location results
Every check returns structured, per-location results your assistant can read and summarize — status, timing, and errors.
Works with your AI client
Connect from Claude Code, Cursor, the mcp-remote CLI, or any config-file MCP client, using
your API token.
Add HostTracker to your MCP client
No local server to run — point your MCP client at the hosted endpoint with your token.
{
"mcpServers": {
"hosttracker": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.host-tracker.com/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" }
}
}
}
Mint a token
On your Profile
page, open the "API v2 Quota & JWT" card, check the ic scope, and create a token.
Add the endpoint
Copy the config above into your MCP
client (e.g. .mcp.json) and replace YOUR_TOKEN with your token.
Restart the client
Reload your MCP client so it
discovers the tools: run_instant_check, get_check_result, list_check_types.
Ask away
Use natural language to run checks and read the results — a one-click connector for Claude Desktop is planned.
Things you can ask
Just describe what you want to know — your assistant picks the right check and runs it.
What is MCP?
MCP is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools in a uniform way — increasingly supported across AI assistants and agent frameworks. Instead of copy-pasting between a monitoring dashboard and your AI, MCP lets the assistant call HostTracker directly and reason over the results. Learn more at modelcontextprotocol.io.
Frequently asked questions.
Any MCP-compatible client that supports a custom Authorization header: Claude Code, Cursor, the mcp-remote CLI, and other config-file MCP clients. A one-click connector for Claude Desktop / claude.ai is planned (it requires OAuth) and is not available yet.
You can run one-off instant checks of any URL you name - HTTP/S availability, ping, TCP port, traceroute, DNS query, DNS blacklist (DNSBL), Russian registry blacklist, WHOIS, Google Web Risk, site crawl, and page-load waterfall - from HostTracker's 300+ global locations, and read the per-location results in your chat. It does not (yet) manage your saved monitors or query uptime history; those run in the HostTracker dashboard.
You pass a per-user HostTracker API token as an Authorization: Bearer header in your MCP client config. Mint one on your account Profile page, under the "API v2 Quota & JWT" card, with the "ic" scope. Your plan must include API access. All quota and rate limits are enforced by HostTracker against that token.
It is effectively read-only for your account: the tools start instant checks and return results. They cannot create, edit, or delete your saved monitors, contacts, or settings - there is no write access to your account through the MCP server.
Yes. Add an http MCP server entry pointing at https://mcp.host-tracker.com/mcp with your Authorization: Bearer token in the headers, and the tools appear as hosttracker_run_instant_check, hosttracker_get_check_result, and hosttracker_list_check_types.
MCP is an open standard that lets AI assistants call external tools in a uniform way, supported across Claude and other assistants and agent frameworks. HostTracker's MCP server implements it so your AI can run monitoring checks directly, instead of you opening a browser.
Put your monitoring in your AI assistant
Create an account, mint an API token, and connect HostTracker to Claude in a couple of minutes.