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Cronitor · cronitor.io · status page · who's behind it

Cronitor's hosted MCP server lets an agent create and manage cron job, heartbeat and uptime monitors, issues, status pages, alert integrations and metrics in a Cronitor account, over OAuth or an API key.

Best for Teams who monitor cron jobs, heartbeats and sites with Cronitor and want an agent to set up and triage monitoring.

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Assessment. Cronitor's MCP server is one of the most carefully documented we've read, with strict input schemas, summary modes, typed error codes and clear advice on secrets in monitor output. It has 71 tools, publishes no changelog, and its terms and privacy pages are closed to crawlers, so data handling couldn't be checked.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Transport
Streamable HTTP
Endpoint
https://cronitor.io/mcp
Auth
OAuth
Pricing
Freemium
x402
No
Licence
not stated
Tools exposed
71
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
MCP registry
io.cronitor/cronitor
llms.txt
published
From our research 2 facts checked against the vendor's pages
Surface listed
The hosted MCP server at cronitor.io/mcp, read from cronitor.io and status.cronitor.io on 7 November 2026. Only an MCP initialize was sent, which asked for sign-in
Not read
cronitor.io/robots.txt disallows /terms and /privacy, so neither was fetched

Facts verified 7 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • Strict input schemas (additionalProperties false) with enums and required combinations
  • Summary modes with paging keep list output small
  • JSON-RPC error codes with retry_after_seconds and required_scope
  • Clear guidance on secrets in event messages and output
  • Free plan for 5 monitors

Weaknesses

  • 71 tools, a heavy context load
  • No public changelog
  • Terms and privacy closed to crawlers, so unread
  • No audit log of agent calls found

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Start with list_monitors and list_issues in summary mode
  2. Ask the user before expanding event messages, command output or request bodies
  3. On a rate-limit error, wait retry_after_seconds
  4. Over the plan's monitor limit, new monitors are saved but disabled

Who's behind it provenance 48/100

  • Legal entity namedCronitor20/20
  • Domain agecronitor.io, no registry record we could read0/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domaincronitor.io15/15
  • Terms of servicenot found0/10
  • Privacy policynot found0/10
  • Status pagestatus.cronitor.io10/10
  • Changelognot found0/10
  • security.txtnot found0/10
  • People namednot researched yetn/a
  • Support routehelp pages5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service none to read

TL;DR We found no terms of service published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.

Privacy policy none to read

TL;DR We found no privacy policy published for this product, so there is nothing to read and the check scores 0.

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules.

robots.txt disallows the terms and privacy pages, so the legal entity wasn't read.

security.txt answered 404.

Checked 2026-11-07 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

No people named yet. This is on the research list.

Researched 7 November 2026 from public pages. People, ownership and investors weren't researched in this batch (7 November 2026, leads from the awesome-remote-mcp-servers pull requests). Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (1)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-08 00:31 UTC

Right nowUpHTTP 401 · 597 ms · 1 minute ago
Uptime 24h100.0%59 probes
Uptime 30 days100.0%59 probes
p50 24h633 msmcp-initialize
p95 24h717 msanswers, asks for auth

Probed every five minutes at https://cronitor.io/mcp. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials. Last note, asks for credentials.

  • Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 1 minute ago

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/cronitor-mcp.json

Notable

  • 71 tools, four task-oriented, three discovery and 64 resource operations mirroring the Cronitor CLI source
  • Every input schema declares additionalProperties false source
  • OAuth tokens carry the user's role with no scope selection; API keys keep granular scopes source
  • Free plan for 5 monitors; Business $2 a monitor and $5 a user a month source

Reviews by the Anchor panel

Every review here is a desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. The outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material. How reviews work.

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Where reviews came from

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 7 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Reliabilitychecked 7 November 2026 16%20 11.0
Status page at status.cronitor.io with components for the APIs and telemetry regions (20). No history was readable (history.rss 404, uptime 'No data available') (5). Rate limits are returned with limit and window in the error data, but no numbers are published (5 of 15). Rate-limit errors carry retry_after_seconds, bulk deletes validate every key first, and the docs say which repeated calls are safe (15). No SLA found (0). Not labelled beta (10). 20 + 5 + 5 + 15 + 0 + 10 = 55.
Performancenot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 7 November 2026 13%16.2 13.0
Every tool's input schema declares additionalProperties false, and the docs call tools/list the field-level reference (25). llms.txt and .md pages for agents (10). Detailed tool guidance, including which to start with and what not to request (18 of 20). Typed inputs with enums, required combinations and no untyped data objects (15). A table of JSON-RPC error codes with their data fields, and worked calls (12 of 15). No public changelog found (404) (0). 25 + 10 + 18 + 15 + 12 + 0 = 80.
Agent ergonomicschecked 7 November 2026 13%16.2 11.9
71 tools (5), with four task-oriented tools and summary modes that cap list output (5 back). Summary mode defaults to 25 rows, allows 100 and returns next_page (20). Documented, recoverable errors (18 of 20). Safety metadata in each tool schema and documented repeat behaviour (15 of 20). setup_monitor takes few fields; SDKs and a CLI (10 of 15). 10 + 20 + 18 + 15 + 10 = 73.
Security & authchecked 7 November 2026 14%17.5 10.2
OAuth bounded by role with no scope choice, or scoped API keys (22 of 30). Read-only users get only read tools; write tools follow the role (14 of 20). The docs warn that event messages, command output and request bodies can hold customer data or secrets, and tell the agent to ask before expanding them; secrets are redacted (12 of 15). No audit log of MCP calls found (0). The security page covers encryption and relies on AWS's certifications; no security.txt (404) and no disclosure policy found (10 of 20). 22 + 14 + 12 + 0 + 10 = 58.
Payments & pricingchecked 7 November 2026 10%12.5 5.0
No machine payment protocol (0). Per-monitor and per-user prices public (20). Free plan for 5 monitors, no card mentioned (20). A person signs up or signs in through a browser (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.
Task successnot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 7 November 2026 7%8.8 4.8
Registry entry io.cronitor/cronitor updated 3 November 2026 (30). No dated changelog found to count (0). Support page and docs; no public changelog (10 of 15). Official registry entry under its own namespace, and official SDKs (15). No package to read (0). 30 + 0 + 10 + 15 + 0 = 55. Registry presence read from Anchor Terminal's own daily import of the official MCP registry (/api/v1/registry.json, 6 November 2026), not the registry's API.
Transparency & trusteditorial 25, provenance 48checked 7 November 2026 7%8.8 3.2
robots.txt disallows the terms and privacy pages, so neither was read (5 of 30, terms exist but weren't readable). Data handling only from the security page (encryption, backups) (10 of 30). No deprecation policy found; the docs version the error codes by protocol revision (5 of 20). Subprocessors not found (5 of 20). 5 + 10 + 5 + 5 = 25.
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total59.1 · C

Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.

Score history no moves since it was graded

Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS

  1. Graded 59.1 C methodology v0.7

Fix list 15 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Cronitor MCP server. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • Terms and privacy weren't read (robots.txt)
  • Incident history not readable
  • People, ownership and investors not researched

Sources 7

  1. MCP server docs cronitor.io · seen 2026-11-07
  2. MCP landing page cronitor.io · seen 2026-11-07
  3. pricing cronitor.io · seen 2026-11-07
  4. security docs cronitor.io · seen 2026-11-07
  5. status page status.cronitor.io · seen 2026-11-07
  6. llms.txt cronitor.io · seen 2026-11-07
  7. lead, awesome-remote-mcp-servers pull request #3869 github.com · seen 2026-11-07

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.

Pricing & changes

Freemium Freemium Free forever for 5 monitors. Business is $2 a monitor and $5 a user a month after a 14-day trial (checked 2026-11-07).

Recent changes

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Connect

Claude Code

claude mcp add cronitor --transport http https://cronitor.io/mcp

MCP client configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cronitor": {
      "url": "https://cronitor.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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