Update Your Public Status Page Automatically During Outages
Communicate outages fast — when monitoring detects a service down, automatically post an incident to your status page and notify subscribers.
- 1
Receive the Alert
Add a
Webhooknode fed by your monitoring when a service check fails. - 2
Confirm the Outage
Add a
Codenode requiring sustained failure to avoid posting for a transient blip. - 3
Post the Incident
Add an
HTTP Requestto your status page API creating an incident and marking the component degraded. - 4
Coordinate the Team
Add a
Slacknode opening an incident channel and paging the responders. - 5
Activate and Test
Activate the workflow and simulate a sustained failure. Confirm the incident posts and the team is notified.
Frequently asked questions
When should I auto-resolve?
Post a resolved update automatically once checks pass consistently, but let a human confirm the root cause.
Won't false positives embarrass us?
Requiring sustained failure before posting avoids status-page noise from momentary blips.