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Status pages & incidents

Status pages, outage updates and post-mortems: telling people what's going on.

Scheduled Maintenance Without False Alerts: Maintenance Windows Done Right

How to pause uptime monitoring during maintenance - one-off and recurring windows, time zones, SLA impact, status page notices and a deploy script.

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What Is a Status Page? Examples and What to Put on It

A status page shows whether a service is working and lists past incidents. Learn public vs private pages, which components to list and how to word updates.

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Status Page Examples: What Good Ones Have in Common

What good status pages share: clear components, 90-day history bars, the current incident on top, maintenance notices, subscriptions and time zones.

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How to Put Your Status Page on Your Own Domain (status.yourcompany.com)

Point status.yourcompany.com at a hosted status page with a CNAME record. Why a subdomain, Cloudflare proxy settings, certificates, CAA and common errors.

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Incident Post-Mortem Template (Blameless, With an Example)

A blameless incident post-mortem template with every section explained, a filled-in example, and tips for running the review meeting and following up.

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Outage Notification Templates for Every Stage of an Incident

Copy-paste outage messages for investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved, scheduled maintenance and follow-up, for status pages, email and social.

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How to Create a Status Page (Step by Step, With Templates)

Create a public status page that customers trust. Choose components, connect monitoring, write incident updates and keep the page off your own servers.

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