Guide
The status page
One page your customers can read while you work: four words per monitor, its uptime, and nothing else.
Step by step
- Go to Website monitoring and open the monitor, or create a new one.
- Press Edit, tick Show on the public status page, and save.
- The monitor now carries a PUBLIC badge in the list, so you can see at a glance which of them strangers can read.
- Untick it to take it off again. Nothing about the monitoring changes either way: it keeps running, and your own screens keep everything they had.
What leaves, and what does not
Published: the name you gave the monitor, the host of its URL, one of four words — Operational, Degraded, Down, Unknown — its uptime over 24 hours, 7 days and 90 days, and the incidents of the last week with when they started and how long they lasted.
Never published: the path of the URL, your origin, the headers, the WAF secret, which points of presence measure it, the latency figures, and every monitor you did not tick.
The page needs no account, which is the point of it. HopMango publishes its own the same way, from the same monitors and the same points of presence you buy, and a page of your own is served as soon as your organization has one. What you tick here is what it carries when it does; until then nothing about the monitor is published anywhere. Ours is here.
The one thing people get wrong
A name that gives away more than the URL would. The address never leaves, but the name you typed does — Storefront is fine, billing-api-internal-eu-west-2 tells strangers about a system you had not meant to mention. Name a public monitor the way a customer would say it.
Where to go next
And then everything above, from a script or an assistant instead.