API and MCP
Everything on down.guide is free to read by machine: no key, no account. Be reasonable with request rates; responses are cached for a minute.
MCP
Add the MCP server
Streamable HTTP, no auth. Your agent can ask whether a provider is down, check a whole stack and read incidents.
Set up the down.guide MCP server for me. down.guide is a free, public outage feed for 400 cloud and SaaS providers: no login, no API key. - Server name: down-guide - Transport: Streamable HTTP - URL: https://mcp.down.guide/mcp Add it the way you normally add MCP servers (your CLI command or your MCP config file), then confirm it connects and lists its tools, including get_provider, check_stack and list_feed. To finish, use check_stack on this project's package.json or lockfile and tell me which of my providers have a problem right now.
Paste this into any coding agent. It adds the server with its own MCP setup.
- get_provider
- Is <provider> down?
- list_feed
- The newest incidents across providers (14 days), newest first, open ones on top
- get_incident
- One incident by down.guide id
- search
- Search incidents
- check_stack
- Which providers a project depends on, and whether any has a problem now
- check_dependency
- One dependency to the providers behind it and their live state
- get_leaderboard
- The Down Index
- send_feedback
- Send a note to the people who run down.guide
- report_outage
- Report that a provider isn't working for you (or for the agent's user) right now
- report_affected
- Say an existing incident affects you
REST
REST API
Every MCP tool has a REST twin returning the same JSON.
- Get provider
- GET /api/v1/providers/<slug>
- List feed
- GET /api/v1/incidents
- Get incident
- GET /api/v1/incidents/<id>
- Search
- GET /api/v1/search
- Check stack
- POST /api/v1/check
- Check dependency
- GET /api/v1/dependency
- Get leaderboard
- GET /api/v1/leaderboard
- Send feedback
- POST /api/v1/feedback
- Report outage
- POST /api/v1/reports
- Report affected
- POST /api/v1/reports/affected
- Catalog
- GET /api/v1/providers
- Every provider, one line each
- GET /api/v1/status
curl https://down.guide/api/v1/providers/github
Feeds
Feeds and badges
RSS, Atom or JSON Feed, filtered by provider, category, impact or region. Badges show a provider's live state.
https://down.guide/feed?provider=github,vercel&filter=major&format=json
https://down.guide/badge/github.svg
Docs
Docs for agents
Every page also has a markdown copy: add .md to the URL.