Status pages

Publish a page for a group

One page per group, at hostnag.com/status/<slug>: 1 on Free, 10 on Pro, as many as you like on Business. Pick which monitors it shows, the name each wears in public (each row in the editor still names the monitor behind it, with a reset to its own name) and the group or sub-group it sits under, or let the page mirror the zone's own sub-zones; a target or an error string never appears. Every page in the organization is listed in one Status pages room.

Show uptime, health and where it was seen from

Each tracked row carries its 30 day figure and a typical response time, and, switched on, a cell per hour or day coloured up, blip or down; its p95 chart opens with a click on the row, or stays open, or never shows, as you choose. A row that is down says where: "from Frankfurt and Sydney, 2 of 3", or "from inside" when a Beacon in your own network saw it. A certificate or domain row draws its runway, and a mail, certificate or domain row a health strip of its own: each day Healthy, Needs attention or At risk, with "29 / 30 d healthy" beside it, never the findings themselves.

Write an incident, or let the checks raise one

Open an incident with a title, an impact and the rows it touches, walk it through Investigating, Identified, Monitoring and Resolved with a timestamped update at each step, and write the postmortem once it is over. Each step mails the subscribers. A deploy pipeline can post the same through one token URL. The episodes the checks confirm on their own are listed beside them, with when they were raised, acknowledged and cleared.

Maintenance, subscribers, feed and JSON

A maintenance window you schedule is listed ahead of time, holds the page at Planned maintenance while it runs, and is mailed to subscribers a day ahead and again when it starts. Every page has an Atom feed of its incidents and a summary.json in the shape Statuspage made standard, so any status reader, hostnag's own vendor watch included, reads a hostnag page as it would any other.

Make it yours

Your logo, alone in the header or beside the page's name, a light or dark enamel, one accent colour, a home link and a support link, a line of your own at the foot, a switch to keep the page out of search engines, and, on Pro and Business, a passphrase that keeps the whole page private. The layout is yours too: a headline band tinted by how things stand or a plain card, groups as cards of their own or nested, simple or detailed figures, the incident list day by day over 7, 14 or 30 days, and strips that start at a monitor's first check or show every day.