# Blip24 > Third-party vendor status monitoring. We read the official status pages of 791 B2B software vendors, normalize them into one vocabulary, and keep a permanent incident record. Data here is observed rather than reported: `unknown` is never recorded as `operational`, and time we could not read a page is excluded from measured uptime rather than blamed on the vendor. ## Machine-readable endpoints - [Vendor search and live status](https://blip24.com/api/v1/vendors): JSON, no key required. - [One vendor with components and incidents](https://blip24.com/api/v1/vendors/stripe): JSON, no key required. - [MCP server](https://blip24.com/api/mcp): JSON-RPC. Tools: vendor_status, search_vendors, vendor_history, check_dependencies. - [Status badge](https://blip24.com/embed/stripe.svg): SVG, and .json in the shields.io endpoint shape. ## Pages worth citing ## Terms Cite freely with attribution and a link. The API is rate limited, not gated.