First status page

What is a status page?

A status page is a public, no-login-required web page that shows the current status of your selected monitors. Customers and users can check it at any time to see whether your services are operational, degraded, or down.

This is what you're building (illustrative data):

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Create a status page

1. In the sidebar, click Status Pages.
2. Click + New Status Page.
3. Fill in:

Field	Example	Notes
Name	Acme Status	Visible to visitors as the page title

The URL is generated automatically from the page name with a short unique suffix, for example /status-page/acme-status-7c0f. You do not choose the slug yourself; the suffix guarantees the URL is unique.

4. Under Monitors, select the monitors you want to display.
5. Click Save. Your page goes live immediately.

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What visitors see

The public status page displays:

• Overall system status banner (All systems operational / Incident in progress)
• Per-monitor status: Operational, Degraded, or Down
• 90-day uptime bar for each monitor
• A recent (24-hour) uptime percentage per monitor
• Active incident banners with any public update you have posted
• Last-checked timestamp

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Custom domain (Status Pro)

By default your status page is served at the platform route /status-page/<slug>. On Status Pro you can use your own domain:

1. In HowlOps, enter your custom domain in the Custom domain field.
2. Add a CNAME DNS record for your domain pointing to ssl.howlops.com.
3. SSL is provisioned automatically (Cloudflare for SaaS) once the CNAME resolves, with no manual certificate step. Allow a few minutes for DNS to propagate and the certificate to issue.

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Email subscriptions

Visitors can subscribe to email notifications directly from your status page. They receive:

• An alert when a new incident opens
• A recovery notification when the incident resolves

Enable subscriptions with the Subscribe (email + RSS) toggle in the status page settings, then manage confirmed and pending subscribers in the Subscribers section of the status page configuration.

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Incident communication

When an incident is active, it appears automatically on the status page. To replace its generic label with a customer-visible message:

1. Open Status pages → Configure and scroll to the Incidents section (step 7).
2. Click Post public update on the incident, pick a phase, and write a short message.
3. Submit. The update appears on the status page immediately.

Post more updates as the incident progresses. Visitors see each update in chronological order. See Respond to incidents on a status page.

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What's next

• Tutorials: Public status page: end-to-end tutorial including custom domain and subscriber setup
• Concepts: Incidents: understand how incidents are created and resolved