Documentation
Features
Status updates
Short messages that tell visitors and subscribers what is happening right now.
Incidents
Group related updates around one ongoing problem and notify subscribers.
Visibility modes
Choose who can open a status page. Public, secret link or password.
Custom domains
PROServe a status page from your own hostname with automatic HTTPS.
Services
A service is one status page with its own team, plan and settings.
Components
Report the status of individual parts of a service.
Public status page
What visitors see at /status/{slug}.
Search engine indexing
PROStatus pages are hidden from search engines by default. PRO can allow indexing.
RSS feed
Let visitors follow a service in a feed reader.
Languages
The site is available in 10 languages.
Monitoring
Automatic checks that update your status page when something fails.
Endpoints
A verified domain that monitors are allowed to check.
Monitor types
REST health, text match and DOM assertion checks.
Thresholds and timing
How many failing checks it takes before a status update is published.
Email subscribers
Visitors subscribe to status emails without an account.
Team and roles
Who can do what on a service, and how invitations work.
REST API
Post status updates and manage incidents from scripts and tools.
Plans and limits
What FREE and PRO include, and the limits that apply to everyone.
Accounts and sign-in
Registration, email confirmation, sign-in options and password rules.
Security and rate limiting
What protects your account, your data and your visitors.
Email notifications
Which emails Status Raptor sends, and to whom.
How-to guides
Getting started
How do I create an account?
Register with an email address and confirm it.
How do I sign in with Google or GitHub?
Use an existing Google or GitHub account instead of a password.
How do I create my first service?
Add a service to get a public status page.
How do I add components to a service?
Split a service into parts with their own status.
How do I view my public status page?
Open the page your visitors see.
How do I reset a forgotten password?
Request a reset link by email.
How do I change my password?
Change it in your account settings.
Publishing status
How do I publish a status update?
Post a message with a status to your public status page.
How do I publish an update for one component?
Report a problem with one part of a service.
How do I format a status update with Markdown?
Use bold, lists, quotes and code in messages.
How do I edit or delete a status update?
Fix a mistake within 7 days.
How do I open an incident?
Start tracking an ongoing problem.
How do I post updates to an incident?
Keep subscribers informed while an incident is open.
How do I close an incident?
Resolve an incident and tell subscribers.
How do I announce planned maintenance?
Post an update with the Maintenance status.
Visibility and domains
How do I put my status page behind a password?
Restrict a status page to visitors who know a shared password.
How do I change or remove the password of my status page?
Set a new shared password or make the page public.
How do I share my status page with a secret link?
Restrict the page to people who hold an unguessable link.
How do I use my own domain for the status page?
PROServe your status page at a hostname such as status.example.com.
How do I fix a custom domain that will not verify?
PROCheck the TXT record, the CNAME record and DNS propagation.
How do I control whether search engines index my status page?
PROAllow or block indexing in the service settings.
Monitoring
How do I verify ownership of an endpoint?
Prove you control a domain with a DNS TXT record or a file.
How do I monitor a REST health endpoint?
Read a status value from a JSON response.
How do I check that a page contains specific text?
Use a Text Match monitor on response content.
How do I monitor only the HTTP status code?
Map reply classes such as 2xx and 5xx to a status.
How do I monitor a page that is built with JavaScript?
PROCheck that an element appears in a real browser.
How do I test a monitor before saving it?
Run one check from the monitor form.
How do I attach a monitor to a component?
Make a monitor change one component instead of the whole service.
How do I set how often a monitor runs?
Choose an interval and timeout that fit the monitor.
How do I avoid false alarms and choose what happens when a target is unreachable?
Use thresholds so one bad check does not publish a status update.
How do I make a monitor public or private?
Choose whether visitors and subscribers see the monitor.
How do I read the monitoring history?
See recent checks, streaks and errors.
How do I delete a monitor or an endpoint?
Remove checks you no longer need.
Subscribers
Team
How do I invite a team member?
Give a registered person access to a service.
How do I accept or decline an invitation?
Respond to a team invitation from My Services.
How do I choose or change a team member's role?
Pick the smallest role that lets the person do their job.
How do I remove a team member?
Take away a person's access to a service.
API and automation
How do I create or revoke an API key?
Generate a key for scripts and tools, and revoke it when it is no longer needed.
How do I post a status update from a script?
Call the REST API with curl or any HTTP client.
How do I open and close an incident from a script or a deployment pipeline?
Use the incident endpoints of the REST API.