How to integrate Uptimerobot MCP with CrewAI

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Introduction

This guide walks you through connecting Uptimerobot to CrewAI using the Composio tool router. By the end, you'll have a working Uptimerobot agent that can add a new monitor for my homepage, delete the monitor for staging site, edit the maintenance window for tonight, get custom http statuses for all monitors through natural language commands.

This guide will help you understand how to give your CrewAI agent real control over a Uptimerobot account through Composio's Uptimerobot MCP server.

Before we dive in, let's take a quick look at the key ideas and tools involved.

TL;DR

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Get a Composio API key and configure your Uptimerobot connection
  • Set up CrewAI with an MCP enabled agent
  • Create a Tool Router session or standalone MCP server for Uptimerobot
  • Build a conversational loop where your agent can execute Uptimerobot operations

What is CrewAI?

CrewAI is a powerful framework for building multi-agent AI systems. It provides primitives for defining agents with specific roles, creating tasks, and orchestrating workflows through crews.

Key features include:

  • Agent Roles: Define specialized agents with specific goals and backstories
  • Task Management: Create tasks with clear descriptions and expected outputs
  • Crew Orchestration: Combine agents and tasks into collaborative workflows
  • MCP Integration: Connect to external tools through Model Context Protocol

What is the Uptimerobot MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Uptimerobot MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Uptimerobot account. It provides structured and secure access to your monitoring dashboard, so your agent can perform actions like creating monitors, managing maintenance windows, retrieving account details, and updating public status pages on your behalf.

  • Automated monitor management: Easily add, edit, or delete monitors for your websites, applications, or services without manual dashboard navigation.
  • Maintenance window control: Let your agent fetch, edit, or update maintenance windows to schedule downtime or maintenance periods programmatically.
  • Public status page updates: Directly modify the configuration and details of your public status pages to keep stakeholders informed in real time.
  • Account and performance insights: Retrieve comprehensive account metrics, including details about your monitors and overall uptime statistics, with a simple agent request.
  • Monitor authentication and headers management: Inspect or adjust authentication types, custom HTTP headers, and HTTP status codes for your monitors for advanced configuration and troubleshooting.

Supported Tools & Triggers

Tools
Add MonitorTool to create a new monitor.
Delete MonitorTool to delete a monitor.
Edit Maintenance WindowTool to edit an existing maintenance window.
Edit MonitorTool to edit an existing monitor.
Edit Public Status PageTool to edit an existing public status page.
Get Account DetailsTool to retrieve account details.
Get Maintenance WindowsTool to retrieve maintenance windows.
Get Monitor Authentication TypeTool to get authentication type for specified monitors.
Get Monitor Custom HTTP HeadersTool to retrieve custom http headers for specified monitors.
Get Monitor Custom HTTP StatusesTool to retrieve custom http statuses for specified monitors.
Get Monitor Response TimesTool to fetch historical response times for specified monitors.
Get MonitorsTool to fetch monitor details and status.
Get Monitor SSL Certificate InfoTool to retrieve ssl certificate information for specified monitors.
Get Monitor TimezoneTool to retrieve timezone for specified monitors.
Get Public Status PagesTool to retrieve public status pages.
Get Uptime RatiosTool to retrieve uptime ratios for monitors.
New Maintenance WindowTool to create a new maintenance window.
New Public Status PageTool to create a new public status page.

What is the Composio tool router, and how does it fit here?

What is Tool Router?

Composio's Tool Router helps agents find the right tools for a task at runtime. You can plug in multiple toolkits (like Gmail, HubSpot, and GitHub), and the agent will identify the relevant app and action to complete multi-step workflows. This can reduce token usage and improve the reliability of tool calls. Read more here: Getting started with Tool Router

The tool router generates a secure MCP URL that your agents can access to perform actions.

How the Tool Router works

The Tool Router follows a three-phase workflow:

  1. Discovery: Searches for tools matching your task and returns relevant toolkits with their details.
  2. Authentication: Checks for active connections. If missing, creates an auth config and returns a connection URL via Auth Link.
  3. Execution: Executes the action using the authenticated connection.

Step-by-step Guide

Prerequisites

Before starting, make sure you have:
  • Python 3.9 or higher
  • A Composio account and API key
  • A Uptimerobot connection authorized in Composio
  • An OpenAI API key for the CrewAI LLM
  • Basic familiarity with Python

Getting API Keys for OpenAI and Composio

OpenAI API Key
  • Go to the OpenAI dashboard and create an API key. You'll need credits to use the models, or you can connect to another model provider.
  • Keep the API key safe.
Composio API Key
  • Log in to the Composio dashboard.
  • Navigate to your API settings and generate a new API key.
  • Store this key securely as you'll need it for authentication.

Install dependencies

bash
pip install composio crewai crewai-tools python-dotenv
What's happening:
  • composio connects your agent to Uptimerobot via MCP
  • crewai provides Agent, Task, Crew, and LLM primitives
  • crewai-tools includes MCP helpers
  • python-dotenv loads environment variables from .env

Set up environment variables

bash
COMPOSIO_API_KEY=your_composio_api_key_here
USER_ID=your_user_id_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here

Create a .env file in your project root.

What's happening:

  • COMPOSIO_API_KEY authenticates with Composio
  • USER_ID scopes the session to your account
  • OPENAI_API_KEY lets CrewAI use your chosen OpenAI model

Import dependencies

python
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, LLM
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter  # optional import if you plan to adapt tools
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
from crewai.mcp import MCPServerHTTP

load_dotenv()
What's happening:
  • CrewAI classes define agents and tasks, and run the workflow
  • MCPServerHTTP connects the agent to an MCP endpoint
  • Composio will give you a short lived Uptimerobot MCP URL

Create a Composio Tool Router session for Uptimerobot

python
composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
session = composio.create(
    user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
    toolkits=["uptimerobot"],
)
url = session.mcp.url
What's happening:
  • You create a Uptimerobot only session through Composio
  • Composio returns an MCP HTTP URL that exposes Uptimerobot tools

Configure the LLM

python
llm = LLM(
    model="gpt-5-mini",
    api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
)
What's happening:
  • CrewAI will call this LLM for planning and responses
  • You can swap in a different model if needed

Attach the MCP server and create the agent

python
toolkit_agent = Agent(
    role="Uptimerobot Assistant",
    goal="Help users interact with Uptimerobot through natural language commands",
    backstory=(
        "You are an expert assistant with access to Uptimerobot tools. "
        "You can perform various Uptimerobot operations on behalf of the user."
    ),
    mcps=[
        MCPServerHTTP(
            url=url,
            streamable=True,
            cache_tools_list=True,
            headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")},
        ),
    ],
    llm=llm,
    verbose=True,
    max_iter=10,
)
What's happening:
  • MCPServerHTTP connects the agent to the Uptimerobot MCP endpoint
  • cache_tools_list saves a tools catalog for faster subsequent runs
  • verbose helps you see what the agent is doing

Add a REPL loop with Task and Crew

python
print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end.\n")
print("Try asking the agent to perform Uptimerobot operations.\n")

conversation_context = ""

while True:
    user_input = input("You: ").strip()

    if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
        print("\nGoodbye!")
        break

    if not user_input:
        continue

    conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
    print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

    task = Task(
        description=(
            f"Based on the conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
            f"Current user request: {user_input}\n\n"
            f"Please help the user with their Uptimerobot related request."
        ),
        expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
        agent=toolkit_agent,
    )

    crew = Crew(
        agents=[toolkit_agent],
        tasks=[task],
        verbose=False,
    )

    result = crew.kickoff()
    response = str(result)

    conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
    print(f"Agent: {response}\n")
What's happening:
  • You build a simple chat loop and keep a running context
  • Each user turn becomes a Task handled by the same agent
  • Crew executes the task and returns a response

Run the application

python
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
What's happening:
  • Standard Python entry point so you can run python crewai_uptimerobot_agent.py

Complete Code

Here's the complete code to get you started with Uptimerobot and CrewAI:

python
# file: crewai_uptimerobot_agent.py
from crewai import Agent, Task, Crew, LLM
from crewai_tools import MCPServerAdapter  # optional
from composio import Composio
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import os
from crewai.mcp import MCPServerHTTP

load_dotenv()

def main():
    # Initialize Composio and create a Uptimerobot session
    composio = Composio(api_key=os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY"))
    session = composio.create(
        user_id=os.getenv("USER_ID"),
        toolkits=["uptimerobot"],
    )
    url = session.mcp.url

    # Configure LLM
    llm = LLM(
        model="gpt-5-mini",
        api_key=os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"),
    )

    # Create Uptimerobot assistant agent
    toolkit_agent = Agent(
        role="Uptimerobot Assistant",
        goal="Help users interact with Uptimerobot through natural language commands",
        backstory=(
            "You are an expert assistant with access to Uptimerobot tools. "
            "You can perform various Uptimerobot operations on behalf of the user."
        ),
        mcps=[
            MCPServerHTTP(
                url=url,
                streamable=True,
                cache_tools_list=True,
                headers={"x-api-key": os.getenv("COMPOSIO_API_KEY")},
            ),
        ],
        llm=llm,
        verbose=True,
        max_iter=10,
    )

    print("Chat started! Type 'exit' or 'quit' to end the conversation.\n")
    print("Try asking the agent to perform Uptimerobot operations.\n")

    conversation_context = ""

    while True:
        user_input = input("You: ").strip()

        if user_input.lower() in ["exit", "quit", "bye"]:
            print("\nGoodbye!")
            break

        if not user_input:
            continue

        conversation_context += f"\nUser: {user_input}\n"
        print("\nAgent is thinking...\n")

        task = Task(
            description=(
                f"Based on the conversation history:\n{conversation_context}\n\n"
                f"Current user request: {user_input}\n\n"
                f"Please help the user with their Uptimerobot related request."
            ),
            expected_output="A helpful response addressing the user's request",
            agent=toolkit_agent,
        )

        crew = Crew(
            agents=[toolkit_agent],
            tasks=[task],
            verbose=False,
        )

        result = crew.kickoff()
        response = str(result)

        conversation_context += f"Agent: {response}\n"
        print(f"Agent: {response}\n")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Conclusion

You now have a CrewAI agent connected to Uptimerobot through Composio's Tool Router. The agent can perform Uptimerobot operations through natural language commands. Next steps:
  • Add role-specific instructions to customize agent behavior
  • Plug in more toolkits for multi-app workflows
  • Chain tasks for complex multi-step operations

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FAQ

What are the differences in Tool Router MCP and Uptimerobot MCP?

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

Can I use Tool Router MCP with CrewAI?

Yes, you can. CrewAI 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 Uptimerobot tools.

Can I manage the permissions and scopes for Uptimerobot while using Tool Router?

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Uptimerobot 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.

How safe is my data with Composio Tool Router?

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 Uptimerobot data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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