What is MCP?
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and services. With CronSignal's MCP integration, your AI can directly create monitors, check statuses, and manage your cron jobs — all through natural conversation.
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Get Your API Key
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Connect Your AI Tool
Cursor
The AI-powered code editor built on VS Code
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool in your terminal
Codex
OpenAI's coding agent in your terminal
Other MCP Client
Any tool that supports the MCP protocol
What your AI can do
Full control over your monitoring setup through natural conversation
Create monitors
"Create a check for my nightly database backup with a 30 minute grace period"
List & search
"Show me all my monitors" or "Which checks are currently failing?"
View history
"Show me the ping history for my backup job"
Update settings
"Change the grace period on my backup check to 15 minutes"
Check status
"What's the status of my email report job?"
Delete monitors
"Delete the old sync job monitor I don't need anymore"
Example Prompts to Try
Create
"Set up a monitor for my hourly cache warm job"
Query
"Are any of my cron jobs failing right now?"
Debug
"Show me why my backup job failed last night"
Manage
"List all monitors and their current status"