We just shipped MCP support for pingd. If you use Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, or Claude Desktop, you can now pull your pingd data directly into your workflow. No tab switching, no copy-pasting URLs.
What's MCP?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets tools like Claude talk to external services. You've probably seen it pop up everywhere lately. The short version: it gives your AI assistant a way to call real APIs and get live data back, instead of guessing or hallucinating.
pingd now has an MCP server. Connect it once, and your assistant can read your pings and changes on demand.
What's available
Three tools:
list_pings: All your pings with their URLs, status, check intervals, and when they last ran.get_ping: Full details on a specific ping, including recent check results and detected changes.list_changes: Recent changes across all your pings (or filtered to one), with the AI analysis included.
Everything is read-only. Your assistant can look at your data but can't modify anything.
How people are using it
Checking on things mid-conversation. You're working on a feature and want to know if the API you depend on has changed recently. Instead of opening pingd in a browser:
"Hey, has anything changed on the payments API docs ping this week?"
You get the actual change list with analysis, right in your editor.
Morning standup prep. Before your morning starts, ask for a summary of overnight changes:
"Show me all changes detected in the last 24 hours"
You get a rundown of what moved across all your pings: competitor sites, API docs, regulatory pages, whatever you're tracking.
Debugging production issues. Something broke and you're wondering if a third-party dependency changed their site:
"Pull up the latest changes for the SMS provider status page ping"
Faster than logging into the dashboard when you're already deep in a terminal session.
Competitive monitoring during planning. You're in a product planning session and want to check what a competitor has been up to:
"What changes has the competitor homepage ping detected this month?"
The AI analysis tells you what changed and why it matters, so you can fold it into your planning without doing the research yourself.
Setting it up
Head to Settings > Integrations in your pingd dashboard. You'll find your MCP endpoint URL and copy-paste instructions for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, and Windsurf.
The whole thing takes about 30 seconds.
If you're not on pingd yet, sign up and set up your first ping. Then connect it to your AI tools and see what happens.
Got feedback? Reach out at [email protected].