monitor-status

monitor-status is a command for Claude Code from WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins. It costs 9 tokens per session (520 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Better Stack command that checks every uptime monitor and summarizes whether each monitored service is working, paused, pending, or down.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for daily monitoring checks across client websites and services, including identifying affected services and deciding which incidents need investigation.
Why use it?
It gives an operations team a quick view of service health and draws attention to possible downtime without checking monitors one by one.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the betterstack plugin — 5 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/wyre-ai/msp-claude-plugins/monitor-status
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install betterstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 520 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00009 $0.00520
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00052

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1ad4be1add69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

monitor-status scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

msp-claude-plugins/betterstack/betterstack/commands/monitor-status.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Better Stack Monitor Status

Check the current status of all uptime monitors, highlighting any that are down or in a degraded state. This is the primary dashboard check for MSP operations.

Prerequisites

  • Better Stack MCP server connected with valid API token
  • MCP tools list_monitors and get_monitor available

Steps

  1. Fetch all monitors

    Call list_monitors to retrieve all monitors. If status filter is provided, filter results accordingly. Paginate through all results up to the specified limit.

  2. Categorize by status

    Group monitors by status: up, down, paused, pending, maintenance, validating. Count monitors in each category.

  3. Build status summary table

    For each monitor, extract: monitor ID, name, URL, status, last checked time, and check frequency.

  4. Highlight downtime

    Flag any monitors with status down or validating and identify which clients/services are affected.

  5. Provide next-step recommendations

    For down monitors, suggest checking associated incidents with /incident-triage. For paused monitors, verify they should still be paused.

Parameters

Parameter Type Required Default Description
status string No all Filter by status (up, down, paused, pending, maintenance)
monitor_group string No all Filter by monitor group name
limit integer No 100 Maximum number of monitors to return

Examples

Check All Monitors

/monitor-status

Show Only Down Monitors

/monitor-status --status down

Check Monitors for a Specific Client

/monitor-status --monitor_group "Acme Corp"

Error Handling

  • Authentication Error: Verify BETTERSTACK_API_TOKEN is set correctly
  • Rate Limit: Wait and retry; use status filters to reduce result set
  • No Results: Confirm filters are correct; no monitors may be configured yet
  • /create-monitor - Create a new uptime monitor
  • /incident-triage - Triage incidents triggered by down monitors
  • /status-page-update - Update status pages for affected services

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 77 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 1ad4be1add69

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monitor-status is a command published in the GitHub repository WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins (44 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 520 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.