How to integrate Pingdom MCP with Hermes

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows. This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Pingdom account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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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

Hermes is a 24/7 autonomous agent that lives on your computer or server — it remembers what it learns and evolves as your usage grows.

This guide explains the easiest and most robust way to connect your Pingdom account to Hermes. You can do this through either Composio Connect CLI or Composio Connect MCP. For personal use we recommend the CLI, but you won't go wrong with MCP either.

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What is Composio Connect?

Composio Connect is a consumer offering that lets anyone plug 1,000+ applications directly into their agent harness — including Hermes. It can:

  • Search and load tools from relevant toolkits on-demand, reducing context usage.
  • Chain multiple tools to accomplish complex workflows via a remote workbench, without excessive back-and-forth with the LLM.
  • Manage app authentication end-to-end with zero manual overhead.

Integrating Pingdom with Hermes

Using Composio Connect CLI

1. Install the Composio CLI

Run the install script directly, or paste https://composio.dev/hermes into your Hermes chat box to have it installed for you.

bash
curl -fsSL https://composio.dev/install | bash
Hermes authenticating with Composio

2. Authenticate

Once the CLI is installed, ask Hermes to authenticate with Composio.

3. Connect to Pingdom

Ask your agent to connect to Pingdom, or simply request any Pingdom-related task. Hermes will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

4. Done. You're all set with a new Pingdom connection.


Using Composio Connect MCP

1. Get your MCP URL and API Key

Go to dashboard.composio.dev and copy your Connect MCP URL and API key.

Copy MCP URL and API key from Composio dashboard

2. Open the Hermes config file

bash
nano ~/.hermes/config.yaml

3. Add the Composio Connect MCP server

bash
mcp_servers:
  composio:
    url: "https://connect.composio.dev/mcp"
    headers:
      x-consumer-api-key: "YOUR_COMPOSIO_API_KEY"
    connect_timeout: 60
    timeout: 180

Save with Ctrl + O, Enter, then exit with Ctrl + X.

4. Restart your Hermes agent

Once restarted, ask your agent to connect to Pingdom or request any Pingdom-related task. It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

5. Done!

What is the Pingdom MCP server, 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.

Way Forward

With Pingdom connected, Hermes can now act on your behalf whenever it detects a relevant task or you ask it to.

From here, you can extend Hermes further:

  • Connect more apps: Calendar, Slack, Notion, Linear, and hundreds of others are available through the same Composio Connect setup. Each new integration compounds what Hermes can do for you.
  • Build workflows across tools: Once multiple apps are connected, Hermes can chain actions together — turn an email into a calendar invite, a Slack message into a Linear ticket, or a meeting note into a follow-up draft.
  • Let it learn your patterns: The more you use Hermes, the better it gets at anticipating how you'd handle recurring tasks. Give it feedback on drafts and decisions, and it will adapt.

If you run into trouble or want to share what you've built, join the community or check out the Docs for deeper configuration options.

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. Hermes 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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