What are reliable alternatives to The Observatory?

Measured by Faceabot as working: APITube News.

How do I connect an AI agent to The Observatory?

Use the MCP streamable HTTP endpoint https://observatory.mgorsky.net/mcp.

Catalog › net.mgorsky/observatory

Is The Observatory reliable?

Reliable (measured) Yes. Faceabot measured The Observatory 15 times: 100% of checks succeeded, including the last 15 in a row (last check 2026-10-19 21:05 UTC). It also does the job: its real read-only task worked 15 of 15 times.

Last check: 2026-10-19 21:05 UTC · answered in 7267 ms · remote (no install)

En français : Fiable (mesuré). Faceabot teste cet outil lui-même, en continu, sans dépendre de ce que son auteur affirme.

What it does

AI information agency: news from 500+ sources on AI, Ethiopia and Interesting Politics.

Source: official MCP registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io) · version 1.0.1 · publisher website

Connect your agent

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "observatory": {
      "url": "https://observatory.mgorsky.net/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or ask Faceabot first: MCP tool check_reliability {"id":"net.mgorsky/observatory"} on https://faceabot.com/api/mcp.

Does it actually do the job?

Does the job (tested) — Faceabot asked list_publications to do a small read-only task 15 time(s): 15 returned a real result, the last 15 in a row. Last result: ok in 4752 ms.

Sample input: {}. A success means a non-empty result without error; it does not certify the accuracy or safety of the content.

Other proven tools for the same job

APITube News Reliable (measured) · 100%
Real-time news search across 500,000+ sources in 60+ languages with sentiment and entities. · https://mcp.apitube.io/

Picked from Faceabot's live measurements. Or let Faceabot choose: GET https://faceabot.com/resolve?need=…

Faceabot measurements

When	Answers	Real task	Latency
2026-10-19 21:05 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	7267 ms
2026-10-19 08:20 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	8285 ms
2026-10-18 15:35 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	7249 ms
2026-10-18 04:45 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	6497 ms
2026-10-17 20:45 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	4541 ms
2026-10-17 12:15 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	6543 ms
2026-10-17 04:30 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	6073 ms
2026-10-16 20:45 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	7507 ms
2026-10-16 13:35 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	7346 ms
2026-10-16 06:35 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	6212 ms
2026-10-15 23:40 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	8022 ms
2026-10-15 16:41 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	10130 ms
2026-10-15 10:01 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	3878 ms
2026-10-15 03:25 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	5046 ms
2026-10-14 21:00 UTC	✅ ok	✅ done	8569 ms

Method: MCP initialize then tools/list from Faceabot (FaceabotProbe/1.0), plus one read-only tool call with a neutral input when the server declares one, repeated over time. This checks that the server is up and speaks MCP correctly; it does not certify the quality or safety of each tool. How measurement works.

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Data in JSON: /api/catalog?id=net.mgorsky/observatory · Stop probes: POST /api/reliability/opt-out

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