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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.

difficulty Advancedsetup 40 minresult Customers see accurate, timely outage updates without an engineer having to manually post them mid-incident.
  1. 1

    Receive the Alert

    Add a Webhook node fed by your monitoring when a service check fails.

  2. 2

    Confirm the Outage

    Add a Code node requiring sustained failure to avoid posting for a transient blip.

  3. 3

    Post the Incident

    Add an HTTP Request to your status page API creating an incident and marking the component degraded.

  4. 4

    Coordinate the Team

    Add a Slack node opening an incident channel and paging the responders.

  5. 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.

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