How it Works
From signup to live status page in under 5 minutes
CheckStatus makes it simple to create a professional status page, communicate incidents clearly, and keep your customers informed automatically.
No credit card required. Setup in 5 minutes.
Quick start
Go live in 3 simple steps
No complex setup. No long onboarding. Just create, customize, and share.
Create your page
Sign up, name your status page, and add your logo. Your branded page is ready in seconds.
Add your services
List the components your customers care about: API, Dashboard, Website, Payments, and more.
Go live
Share your status page URL with customers. They can subscribe for updates and stay informed.
Customize your brand
Make it yours in minutes
Your status page should feel like part of your product. Customize colors, add your logo, set up a custom domain, and choose between light and dark themes.
- Upload your logo and favicon
- Set your brand colors
- Connect your custom domain with automatic SSL
- Add custom header and footer content
Incident management
Communicate incidents with clarity and speed
When something goes wrong, your customers need to know. CheckStatus makes it easy to communicate what's happening and when it will be resolved.
Investigating
Identified
Monitoring
Resolved
Keep everyone informed in real time
Post updates as incidents evolve. Your status page automatically shows the current state and a clear timeline of what happened.
- Automatic status derivation from active incidents
- Attach affected components and impact level
- Publish updates to subscribers instantly
- Full incident history for transparency
Scheduled maintenance
Keep customers informed about planned work
Announce maintenance windows ahead of time so customers know what to expect. No more surprise downtime.
- Schedule maintenance windows in advance
- Auto-start when the window begins
- Post updates during maintenance
- Auto-complete when the window ends
Subscriber notifications
Keep customers in the loop automatically
Customers subscribe with their email and confirm via double opt-in. When incidents or maintenance happen, they get notified automatically.
- Double opt-in email confirmation
- Automatic notifications for incidents and updates
- Component-level subscriptions
- Easy unsubscribe in every email
Your status page stays online even if your app goes down
With Safe Mode, CheckStatus caches your status page on a global CDN. If your main application experiences an outage, customers can still check your status page and stay informed.
Integrations
Connect with your existing tools
Use our API and webhooks to integrate CheckStatus with Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or your own internal tools.
REST API
Create incidents, update components, and manage your status page programmatically.
Webhooks
Get notified in Slack, Teams, or your own systems when incidents are created or updated.
Automatic email notifications to all your subscribers for every incident update.
Create an incident with a simple API call
curl -X POST https://api.checkstatus.io/v1/incidents \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"title": "Database connectivity issues",
"status": "investigating",
"impact": "major",
"components": ["api", "dashboard"]
}'The difference
Outage response: before and after
See how a status page transforms your incident response from chaos to control.
Without CheckStatus
Chaos mode
- Support inbox flooded with "Is it down?" tickets
- Engineers pulled away to answer questions
- Frustrated customers with no visibility
- Social media complaints and negative tweets
- Lost trust and potential churn
With CheckStatus
Calm and in control
- Customers check status page first
- One update reaches all subscribers
- Engineers stay focused on fixing
- Transparency builds customer trust
- Professional incident communication
Ready to create your status page?
Start your free trial today. No credit card required.
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