PSP Status Monitor - Payment Provider Outages

PSP Status & Incident Monitor

PSP Status Monitor watches the public status pages of payment providers and returns one normalised status per provider, so you can schedule it and get alerted when a PSP has an outage or incident.

Best for: Payments operations and support teams, merchants running several PSPs, and engineers who want outage alerts in Slack or a webhook.

What does PSP Status & Incident Monitor do?

Polls the public status pages of payment providers and returns a normalised status per provider: overall indicator, degraded components, active incidents, scheduled maintenance. Schedule it every 5–15 min on Apify with onlyChanges=true and a webhookUrl (e.g. Slack) to get alerts when a PSP has an outage.

Built-in providers (tested working): Stripe, GoCardless, Square, Klarna, Worldpay, TrueLayer, SumUp, Plaid, Shopify, Wise. Adyen, Checkout.com, PayPal, Braintree, Mollie and Paddle need custom parsers (v0.2). You can also pass any Atlassian Statuspage base URL.

Only public status pages are read; no authentication, low request rate.

How to monitor payment provider outages

1. Pick providers in Providers (for example stripe, klarna, gocardless).
2. Turn on Only output changes since last run and add a Webhook URL for alerts.
3. Save it as a task and add an Apify schedule (for example every 10-15 minutes).

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• provider-checked: $0.001 per provider per run (a 10-provider check every 10 min ≈ $43/month).

Example input

{
  "providers": [
    "stripe",
    "klarna",
    "gocardless"
  ],
  "onlyChanges": false
}

Example output

Values below are illustrative.

{
  "provider": "Klarna",
  "statusUrl": "https://status.klarna.com",
  "indicator": "minor",
  "description": "Partially Degraded Service",
  "activeIncidents": [],
  "operational": false,
  "changedSinceLastRun": true
}

Use it via API, schedules and integrations

Run it in Apify Console, or call it from your own code with the Apify API or the Python and JavaScript clients. Save an input as a task and add a schedule to run it regularly, and send results to Slack, email, webhooks, Zapier, Make or n8n with Apify integrations. AI agents can find and run it through the Apify MCP server.

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("sterlingverify/psp-status-monitor").call(run_input={"providers": ["stripe", "klarna", "gocardless"]})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Use in Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Power Automate or Activepieces

All of them connect to Apify through their official Apify integrations, using your own Apify account: an API token from Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations, or Apify sign-in for Power Automate. Runs bill to your Apify account at this Actor's pay-per-event price.

• Clay: save this Actor's input as an Apify task and copy it as JSON. In your Clay table, add the Run Apify Actor enrichment, choose it and paste the JSON into Input Data, mapping Clay columns into the fields. To pull a finished run into a new table, use the Import data from Apify Actor source.
• Zapier: use the Apify Run Actor action, or the Finished Actor run trigger followed by Fetch dataset items. Synchronous runs in Zapier stop after 30 seconds, so use the trigger for big batches.
• Make: add the Apify Run an Actor module with Run synchronously set to Yes, then Get Dataset Items with the run's dataset ID. For longer runs, use the Watch Actor Runs trigger.
• n8n: install the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify, or search "Apify" on n8n Cloud) and use Run an Actor and get dataset.
• Pipedream: add the Apify app's Run Actor action, or Run Task Synchronously on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task) to get the dataset items back in one step. For big batches, start from the New Finished Actor Run or New Finished Task Run trigger, then Get Dataset Items.
• Power Automate: add the Apify connector (a premium connector, currently in preview) and sign in with your Apify account. Use Run Actor with Enter custom value set to sterlingverify/psp-status-monitor and paste the input as JSON, then Get dataset items with the run's default dataset ID. For big batches, start the flow from the Actor run finished trigger instead.
• Activepieces: add the Apify piece and use Run Actor, or Run Task on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task), then Get Dataset Items. For scheduled or big batches, use the Watch Actor Runs or Watch Task Runs trigger.
• Google Drive / Sheets: add Apify's Upload results to GDrive integration to a scheduled task to drop each run's CSV or XLSX into your team's Drive, or chain the Google Sheets Import & Export actor to append rows to a sheet.
• Slack alerts: add Apify's Slack integration to a scheduled task to post each run's results or new alerts to your team channel, or start a check from Slack with /apify call and your task ID.
• Email digests: add Apify's Send results email via Gmail integration to a scheduled task to attach each run's CSV/JSON to your inbox.
• Microsoft Teams alerts: add an Apify webhook (HTTP request on run succeeded or failed) to a scheduled task, point it at a Teams Workflows incoming-webhook URL, and set the payload template to an Adaptive Card message so each run posts an alert into your channel.
• Airbyte: add Apify Dataset as a source in Airbyte (dataset ID + Apify API token) to move a run's results into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres or another Airbyte destination.
• Dify: install Apify's apify-integration plugin from the Dify Marketplace and use Run Actor as a tool in a Workflow or Chatflow, or point this Actor's Run succeeded HTTP webhook at a published Dify app's plugin endpoint to trigger it.
• Workato: install the Apify connector from Workato's Community library (Custom connectors), connect it with your Apify API token, and run this Actor inside a recipe or trigger a recipe when a run finishes.
• Any HTTP tool or script: send one request and get the results back as JSON. Runs must finish within 5 minutes.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sterlingverify~psp-status-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json

FAQ

Which providers work out of the box?

Stripe, GoCardless, Square, Klarna, Worldpay, TrueLayer, SumUp, Plaid, Shopify and Wise. You can also pass any Atlassian Statuspage base URL.

Is it official?

No. It is unofficial and reads only public status pages; always confirm on the provider's own page.

Disclaimer

Unofficial; not affiliated with any provider. Reads only public status pages; always confirm on the provider's own page.

Platform usage is included in the per-event price; you pay only for results.

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