Better Stack Status Pages

Better Stack Status Pages

Overview

Status pages in Better Stack provide a public-facing view of your service health. They automatically reflect monitor statuses and allow manual incident and maintenance updates. MSPs use status pages to communicate service availability to clients without exposing internal monitoring details.

Anti-triggers

• "Is this service up right now?" — a status page is outbound communication, not the source of truth for health. Use betterstack-monitors for the check and betterstack-incidents for the event.
• Better Stack's own availability — that is status.betterstack.com, not a page you manage; for connection failures use betterstack-api-patterns.

Key Concepts

Status Page Components

Status pages are composed of resources (components) that map to monitors:

• Each resource shows a status indicator (operational, degraded, downtime, maintenance)
• Resources are automatically updated based on linked monitor status
• Resources can be grouped into sections for organization

Component Statuses

• Operational - Service is fully functional
• Degraded Performance - Service is working but with reduced performance
• Partial Outage - Some aspects of the service are unavailable
• Major Outage - Service is completely unavailable
• Maintenance - Service is under planned maintenance

Maintenance Windows

Maintenance windows allow you to:

• Schedule downtime in advance
• Notify subscribers before maintenance begins
• Suppress alerts during planned work
• Auto-update status page during the maintenance period

API Patterns

List Status Pages

betterstack_list_status_pages

Parameters:

• page - Pagination cursor

Example response:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "sp-123",
      "type": "status_page",
      "attributes": {
        "company_name": "Acme Corp",
        "company_url": "https://acme.com",
        "subdomain": "status-acme",
        "custom_domain": "status.acme.com",
        "timezone": "America/New_York"
      }
    }
  ]
}