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 Create and customise. New pages are published immediately. Use Unpublish from the page menu if you want to finish the configuration before sharing the URL.

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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
• Availability history for each monitor
• Recent uptime for each monitor
• Active incident banners with any public update you have posted
• Last-checked timestamp

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Custom domain

By default the page is served at /status-page/<slug>. If your plan includes custom domains, open the page configuration and enter the hostname you want to use. HowlOps then shows the DNS record and target for that page.

Copy the target from the product instead of using a value from a tutorial. Hosting configuration can differ between environments. The domain moves through DNS and certificate checks before it becomes active; the configuration screen shows the current state.

See Set a custom domain for the full procedure.

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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.