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Knowledge base

Guides for setting up checks, understanding confirmation, wiring alerts, and running status pages.

Getting started

Accounts, checks, regions, and your first alert.

What is Status? The concepts behind Status — accounts, checks, regions, confirmation, and alerts.
Create your account and start a trial Sign up with just an email, get a 14-day trial with full Professional features, and log in with a one-time code.
Invite your team and choose roles Add teammates to your account with Owner, Member, or Viewer roles.
Choosing a plan What Starter, Professional, and Enterprise include, and how annual billing and upgrades/downgrades work.

HTTP, TCP, DNS, SSL, domain, ping, and heartbeat checks.

HTTP checks Monitor a URL's status code, response body, and TLS certificate, with custom headers and basic auth.
TCP checks Confirm a host and port accept connections, optionally sending a probe string and matching the reply.
DNS checks Resolve A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, or NS records against a chosen resolver and optionally match expected values.
SSL certificate checks Track certificate validity and expiry separately from uptime, with warnings well before a certificate lapses.
Domain expiry checks Track a domain's registration expiry so a forgotten renewal never takes your site down without warning.
Ping checks ICMP echo checks with a configurable packet-loss threshold.
Heartbeat checks A dead-man's-switch URL your job calls in — miss the grace period and Status raises it.

How multi-region quorum stops false alerts.

How multi-region confirmation works A failing check is re-checked from other regions before an incident opens, so a single flaky vantage point never pages you.

Email and webhook channels, thresholds, and signing.

Email and webhook alert channels Wire checks to email and webhook channels, with per-check attachment, verification, and automatic disable on repeated failures.
Customizing webhook payloads and security Map Status's events onto your own ingestion format with a safe template engine, HMAC signing, and per-check alert thresholds.

Public status pages, custom domains, and subscribers.

Create a status page Share a hosted public status page for the checks you choose, with an optional password gate and email subscribers.
Custom domains for status pages Point status.yourcompany.com at your Status page with a CNAME, then verify it for automatic TLS.

Suppress alerts during planned work.

Maintenance windows Schedule a window over one check, several, or your whole account so planned work doesn't page anyone.

Uptime reports and embeddable badges.

Keys, scopes, and the public v1 API.

API keys and scopes Manage checks, alert channels, and incidents from your own tooling with a scoped v1 API key.

Fixes for common monitoring surprises.

Why didn't I get paged? A checklist for tracking down a missing alert — from unattached channels to auto-disabled webhooks.
Why is my check flapping? How to tell a genuinely unstable target apart from a confirmation threshold that's too sensitive.
SSL and domain expiry warnings Why you got a certificate or domain expiry warning, what it means, and how to adjust the thresholds.

Start a free trial today. Multi-region confirmation means you only hear about the outages that matter.