create-keyword-monitor

Create a KEYWORD monitor

Preflight — read first. If you cannot see any uptimerobot:* MCP tools in your tool list, invoke the uptimerobot:setup skill before doing anything else. Do not tell the user the MCP is misconfigured — setup's Step 0 detects the common case (server connected, tools loaded after session start) and resolves it without re-keying.

Use when the user cares not just that an endpoint returns a 200, but that a specific string is present (login page has "Sign in") or absent (homepage is not showing "502 Bad Gateway"). For structured JSON assertions, prefer create-api-monitor instead.

Tool: create-monitor Required params: friendlyName, type: "KEYWORD", url (full URL), keywordValue, keywordType.

Minimal call

{
  "friendlyName": "Login page shows Sign in",
  "type": "KEYWORD",
  "url": "https://app.example.com/login",
  "keywordValue": "Sign in",
  "keywordType": "ALERT_NOT_EXISTS"
}

keywordType:

• ALERT_NOT_EXISTS — alert when the keyword disappears (expected content missing → down).
• ALERT_EXISTS — alert when the keyword appears (error string present → down).

Common optional params

All HTTP-monitor params are supported: httpMethodType, authType, httpUsername, httpPassword, followRedirections, checkSSLErrors, timeout, interval, sslExpirationReminder, domainExpirationReminder, responseTimeThreshold, assignedAlertContacts, tagNames, maintenanceWindowsIds.

KEYWORD-specific:

• keywordCaseType — 0 for case-sensitive (default), 1 for case-insensitive.

Example: alert when a 500 message appears

{
  "friendlyName": "Homepage not erroring",
  "type": "KEYWORD",
  "url": "https://www.example.com/",
  "keywordValue": "Internal Server Error",
  "keywordType": "ALERT_EXISTS",
  "keywordCaseType": 1,
  "interval": 60,
  "assignedAlertContacts": [
    { "alertContactId": "10", "threshold": 0, "recurrence": 0 }
  ]
}

Common mistakes

• Leaving off keywordType — it is required.
• Using an HTTP monitor when the user said "alert me if the page shows X" — use KEYWORD.
• Case-sensitivity confusion. Default is case-sensitive; pass keywordCaseType: 1 for insensitive.
• keywordValue longer than 500 chars is rejected.
• HEAD requests cannot match body content. If httpMethodType is HEAD, the keyword check will not work as expected.