How to connect Pingdom to Claude

Connect Claude Web, Desktop and Cowork to Pingdom MCP. List all uptime checks for your sites, show account credit and api usage left, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Pingdom is a web performance monitoring service for websites, servers, and applications. It helps you track uptime, performance, and get alerts when things go down.

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Introduction

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, available on the web, in the desktop app, and on mobile. Cowork is its agent for knowledge work, and it runs on all of those surfaces too. Connected to your apps, Claude can work with your files and services to accomplish complex tasks on your behalf.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Pingdom account to Claude via Composio Connect, enabling it to list all uptime checks for your sites, show account credit and API usage left, fetch all alerting contacts with details, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

Setup is the same on Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork, and you only need to do it once. The connector is tied to your account, so it's available in all three.

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Connecting Pingdom to Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

Two ways to add the Composio connector. Pick whichever you prefer.

1. Add with one click

Click the button. Claude opens with the Composio connector filled in. Click Add, then go to step 2.

Add to Claude

Add manually

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

2. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork

3. Connect your Pingdom account

Back in Claude, ask it to connect to Pingdom or give it any Pingdom-related task.

For example, ask Claude to:

  • "List all uptime checks for your sites"
  • "Show account credit and API usage left"
  • "Fetch all alerting contacts with details"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Claude, and your Pingdom account is ready to use.

What is the Pingdom Claude Connector, and what's possible with it?

The Pingdom MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Pingdom account. It provides structured and secure access to your monitoring data, so your agent can perform actions like retrieving uptime checks, managing alerts and contacts, viewing maintenance windows, and running immediate availability tests on your behalf.

  • Comprehensive uptime and check monitoring: Instantly fetch overviews of all your uptime checks, retrieve details for specific checks, and keep tabs on your website and server performance.
  • Alert action and contact management: Ask your agent to list all alerting actions, fetch contacts, or get detailed notification configurations for each contact in your Pingdom account.
  • Maintenance window tracking: Let your agent list and filter scheduled maintenance windows and occurrences, helping you plan downtime and track monitoring exceptions.
  • Immediate single-site checks: Perform real-time availability or performance tests on any host or URL directly from your agent, using specific probes and check types.
  • Reference data and credits insight: Retrieve essential reference lists (like time zones, probes, and contact types) and check your API credit and rate-limit status to stay informed and proactive.

Troubleshooting

1. Why does Claude not use the Composio connector for Pingdom?

The connector can show as connected, but Claude must use it in each Pingdom conversation.

  • Click + at the lower left of the chat, or type /.
  • Hover Connectors.
  • Turn on Composio.
  • Ask Claude to connect to Pingdom again.

2. Why does Claude show an MCP server error before Pingdom connects?

Claude can show Couldn't reach the MCP server or Authorization with the MCP server failed when you add the connector for Pingdom.

  • Check that the connector URL is https://connect.composio.dev/mcp.
  • Connectors run from Anthropic's cloud, so your device network is usually not the problem.
  • Add the connector again from Customize > Connectors, then ask Claude to connect Pingdom.
  • If it fails again, send the error and the ofid_ reference id to support@composio.dev.

3. Why does the Pingdom authorization link not work?

The Composio connector is one server. Your Pingdom account connects separately when Claude asks for it.

  • If the browser does not open, or the link expires, ask Claude to retry the Pingdom connection.
  • Composio creates a fresh Pingdom authorization link.
  • Open that link in your browser and finish the Pingdom sign-in.

4. Why do Pingdom actions fail after they worked before?

The Pingdom connection can expire or lose permission.

  • Ask Claude to inspect the Pingdom connection.
  • If the connection is unhealthy, disconnect it when Claude prompts you.
  • Reconnect the Pingdom account and retry the action.
  • If Claude shows a permission prompt, approve it before Claude changes data in Pingdom.
  • If the action still fails with a permission error, check that the connected account has that permission in Pingdom itself.

5. How do I switch to a different Pingdom account?

Claude can manage the Pingdom connection for you.

  • Ask Claude to disconnect or delete the current Pingdom account.
  • Ask Claude to connect Pingdom again.
  • Open the new Composio authorization link for Pingdom.
  • Sign in with the other Pingdom account in the browser.
  • After the account connects, ask Claude to retry the Pingdom task.

6. Why is my Pingdom connection missing in Claude Desktop or on a Team plan?

The connector belongs to your Claude account, so your Pingdom connection works in Claude Web, Desktop, and Cowork.

  • In Claude Desktop, open Customize > Connectors.
  • Next to Composio, click and click Clear cache.
  • If Pingdom tools still do not appear, click , disconnect, remove the connector, and add it again.
  • On Team or Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner must enable the connector before you can connect Pingdom.
TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Pingdom action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get Pingdom Alert Actions

Retrieves configured alert actions (notifications) from your Pingdom account.

Get Checks List

Retrieves a list of all uptime/monitoring checks configured in Pingdom with optional filtering and pagination.

Get Contact Details

Retrieves comprehensive details of a specific Pingdom alerting contact by ID, including all configured notification methods (email, SMS), team memberships, contact type, and pause status.

Get Contacts

Tool to retrieve all alerting contacts.

Get Credits

Retrieves comprehensive account information including check limits, SMS credits, and resource usage.

List Maintenance Occurrences

Tool to list maintenance occurrences.

Get Maintenance Windows

Tool to retrieve a list of maintenance windows.

Get Probes

Retrieves the complete list of Pingdom probe servers worldwide.

Get Reference Data

Retrieves Pingdom reference data including regions, timezones, datetime formats, number formats, and countries.

Get Single Check

Perform a single on-demand Pingdom check against a target host.

Get Team Details

Tool to fetch detailed information for a specific alerting team.

Get Teams

Tool to retrieve all alerting teams and their members.

Get TMS Transaction Checks List

Retrieves a paginated list of all transaction (TMS) checks configured in Pingdom.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Pingdom MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Pingdom tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Pingdom and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Pingdom tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Pingdom scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Pingdom data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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