Status pages
Status pages that update themselves.
A status page answers the question your customers ask first: "Is it just me?" It shows every service you monitor with its current state and history, and switches to "incident" the moment a check fails, without anyone touching it. Public or private, on your own domain, one page included in the free plan. And while the page says "being fixed", we can be the ones fixing it.
Updated from your monitors, not by hand
Most status pages are out of date because someone has to edit them during an outage. Ours take their state from the checks that found the outage.
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Live state per service
Every monitor you add to the page is shown as up, down or with a warning, with the time of the last check.
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Incidents open and close themselves
A failed check opens an incident on the page; the next successful check closes it. On paid plans the failure is confirmed from a second location first, so a short glitch does not become a public incident.
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History
Uptime over the last days and weeks for each service, so customers see that an outage is the exception.
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Maintenance notices
Announce planned work in advance; during the window the service is shown as under maintenance instead of down.
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Your names, your order
Call a monitor "Online shop" instead of its URL, and put the services in the order your customers care about.
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Certificate problems included
An expiring or expired certificate shows up as an incident too, because for visitors it is one. See SSL monitoring.
On your own domain, with or without our name
Every status page gets an address with us. From the Pro plan you put it on your own domain, such as status.example.com; we set up the HTTPS certificate for it. From the Business plan the page carries no Centoculus branding at all. Agencies give each client a page; hosting providers put the whole service under their brand with white label.
- Free: one status page with a small Centoculus note
- Pro and up: status pages on your own domain, HTTPS included
- Business and up: without our branding; your logo and colors only
- The number of pages per plan is in the plans and prices
Public or private
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Public
For your customers and anyone who wants to know. Link it from your site, your support replies and your social media profile, and the "is it down?" questions stop.
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Private
For a client, a team or a management board: only the people you give the link to see it, and it is not listed anywhere.
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One per client
Agencies create a page per client with only that client's services on it. Each page has its own address or domain.
What to do during an outage
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Let the page speak
The incident is already on the page. Add a short note: what is affected, that you are working on it, when the next update comes.
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Point everyone to it
One link in your email autoresponder, support replies and social media post instead of answering the same question fifty times.
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Get it fixed
On your own server or webspace with SSH access, order a quick fix or a deep fix from the alert. The page closes the incident on its own when the check succeeds again. Not sure what is wrong? The free website down checker tells you.
Questions about status pages
Is there a free status page?
Yes. The free plan includes one status page with a small Centoculus note, fed by up to 50 website monitors. Commercial use is allowed.
Can I use my own domain?
From the Pro plan. Point a CNAME such as status.example.com to the address shown in the app; the HTTPS certificate is set up for you.
Can I remove the Centoculus branding?
From the Business plan. The page then shows only your logo and colors. For a fully branded service, including the app your customers use, see white label.
Does the page update itself?
Yes. Its state comes from your monitors: a failed check opens an incident, the next successful check closes it. You only write notes if you want to.
Can I announce maintenance?
Yes. Create a maintenance notice with a start and end time; during that window the service is shown as under maintenance, and no incident is opened for it.
Can I make a page private?
Yes. A private page is not listed anywhere and is meant for the people you share the link with, such as one client or your own team.
What do I write to my customers during an outage?
Keep it short and calm: what is affected, that you are working on it, when the next update comes. Our guide on what to do when your website is down has a ready-made text.
Give your customers one place to look.
One status page is free, on your own domain from Pro. It updates itself, and when something is down, we can fix it.
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