# OpenPing

> OpenPing watches websites, APIs, MCP servers and AI agents, and checks that they are not only up but answering right. Paste a URL and get monitors, alerts and a status page in a minute.

OpenPing checks websites, APIs, MCP servers, AI gateways and AI agents on a schedule, from several regions, and says plainly when something is down, slow or answering wrong. An AI agent can use it through an MCP server, a REST API with an API key, or the `openping` CLI in CI. Every docs page below is plain Markdown; https://openping.ai/llms-full.txt has all of them in one file. OpenPing is in early access: people join the waitlist at https://openping.ai/early-access, and an account (and so an API key) comes with access.

## Docs: Start

- [Quickstart](https://openping.ai/docs/quickstart.md): From a URL to monitors, alerts and a status page.

## Docs: What it checks

- [Monitors](https://openping.ai/docs/monitors.md): Each type and what it checks.
- [Agent tests](https://openping.ai/docs/agent-tests.md): Ask a question on a schedule and judge the answer.
- [MCP monitors](https://openping.ai/docs/mcp-monitors.md): The handshake, the tool list and every change to it.
- [Heartbeats](https://openping.ai/docs/heartbeats.md): Know when a scheduled job is late or fails.

## Docs: When something breaks

- [Alerts](https://openping.ai/docs/alerts.md): Who hears about what, and how it stays calm.
- [Status pages](https://openping.ai/docs/status-pages.md): A page your users can trust, made for you.

## Docs: Build with it

- [Monitors as code](https://openping.ai/docs/monitors-as-code.md): Keep monitors in openping.yml in your repo.
- [CLI](https://openping.ai/docs/cli.md): Run the same checks on a laptop and in CI.
- [API](https://openping.ai/docs/api.md): Everything the app can do, over REST.
- [MCP server](https://openping.ai/docs/mcp-server.md): Let your AI assistant set up and read monitoring.
- [For AI agents](https://openping.ai/docs/agents.md): How an agent uses OpenPing end to end, and what needs a person’s yes.

## Connect

- [MCP server](https://mcp.openping.ai): Streamable HTTP. Send an OpenPing API key as `Authorization: Bearer opk_…`. In Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http openping https://mcp.openping.ai --header "Authorization: Bearer $OPENPING_API_KEY"`. Details: https://openping.ai/docs/mcp-server.md
- [REST API](https://app.openping.ai/v1): JSON, with an API key as a bearer token. Details: https://openping.ai/docs/api.md
- [CLI](https://openping.ai/docs/cli.md): the `openping` command runs the checks in `openping.yml` on a laptop or in CI, and exits non-zero when one fails

## More

- [For AI agents](https://openping.ai/docs/agents.md): how an agent uses OpenPing end to end, and what needs a person's yes
- [Docs index](https://openping.ai/docs.md): every docs page in one list
- [Pricing](https://openping.ai/pricing): the plans we are testing with early teams
- [OpenPing's own status](https://app.openping.ai/status): is OpenPing itself up