API & MCP

Everything on down.new is available as JSON. Anonymous use: 60 requests/minute. Free API keys (higher limits) at down.new/account.

Is it down?

curl https://api.down.new/v1/status/github

Returns the state, a plain-language headline, a 0–1 confidence and the evidence: reports vs usual, failing probe regions and the official status. Full reference: https://api.down.new/docs.

For AI agents (MCP)

Give Claude, Cursor or any MCP client real-time ground truth. Tools: check_service, active_outages, service_history, isp_health, compare_isps.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "down.new": { "url": "https://api.down.new/mcp" }
  }
}

Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http down-new https://api.down.new/mcp

Badges

![GitHub status](https://api.down.new/v1/badge/github.svg)

Webhooks & alerts

Email alerts are free. Slack, PagerDuty and signed webhooks (X-DownNew-Signature: t=…,v1=HMAC-SHA256) are part of down.new Pro — and only fire for confirmed states, never on crowd noise alone.