These guides follow the dashboard section by section. Each one explains what a screen is for, walks through the common tasks with screenshots from a real workspace, and points at the API endpoint that does the same thing when you would rather script it.
New here? Start with Getting started; it takes about ten minutes and ends with a published page and a monitor watching it.
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Status pages
Create and publish a pageTemplates, the page address, visibility, uptime history, branding and what publishing means.Components and groupsThe rows on your page: naming, grouping, ordering, manual status and uptime.Custom domainsServe your page at status.yourdomain.com: the TXT record, the CNAME, and verification.SubscribersHow people subscribe, which channels exist, importing a list, and what you can and cannot see.
Incidents
Report and update incidentsThe four stages, impact levels, affected components, drafts, notifications and postmortems.Scheduled maintenanceAnnounce planned work: windows, reminders, automatic start and end, and what the page shows.Message templatesReusable wording for incidents and maintenance, with variables filled in at publish time.
Monitoring
MonitorsThe six check types, targets, intervals, assertions, thresholds, and reading the results.Rules and automatic incidentsLink a monitor to a component and decide what a failure does: status, draft or published incident.Heartbeat monitorsWatch cron jobs, queues and anything inside your network by having it ping us on a schedule.
Workspace and team
WorkspacesOne workspace per product or per client: creating, switching, renaming and archiving.Team members and rolesInvite people, choose organisation or workspace roles, and see exactly what each role can do.API keysCreate a key, choose its scope and workspace, use it, and revoke it.Outbound webhooksSend incident, maintenance and monitor events to your own systems from the dashboard.Plans and billingUpgrading, changing plans, cancelling, failed payments, and what a limit means in practice.