Status pages
Creating a status is a matter of few clicks.
1. Navigate to Status pages in the navigation bar and click on the Create status page button
2. Select your page type, ilert URL and the teams that should manage the status page.
3. Select the services that you would like to include in the status page. You can also create new service and add them to the status page from the drop down list.
4. Optionally add your own logo and fav icon and click on Save.
5. Click on the Visit status page button to preview your status page. Once you are satisfied with your status page, click on the Activate button to make your page available and viewable to your users.
Status pages in ilert can either be private or public. You change the page type any time. The table below compares both pages types:
Text | Public page | Private page |
|---|---|---|
Use case | For public incident communication with external users and customers | For private incident communication with employees and customers that either have an ilert account or a whitelisted IP address. Note that a stakeholder license is sufficient to view status pages. |
Visibility | Publicly visible on the internet | Visible to authenticated ilert users only or to users with whitelisted IP addresses |
Supports custom domains with SSL | ✅ | ✅ |
Supports IP Whitelist | ✅ | ✅ |
The status of your status page is automatically updated whenever
- the status of a service that is included in the status page is updated (e.g. by setting a service to Degraded)
- an incident is created that affects any of the services from your status page
You can automatically update your status page in the following ways:
- Automatically update the status of a service (for example set the status to Degraded)
- Automatically create an incident on your status page using an incident template and (optionally) notify subscribers
Both cases work by using a service's automation rules. See -> Services: automation with alert sources for more information.
Every status page (both private and public) comes with support for custom domains, so that you can make your status page accessible from your own subdomains (e.g. status.example.com).
Setting up a custom domain consist of the following steps:
- 1.Set the custom domain in ilert
- 2.Configure DNS
- 3.Wait for the changes to take effect
Go to your status page settings and enter a custom domain and click on Save.
Configuring DNS happens outside of ilert, at the DNS provider you are using for your domain.
- 1.Create a new DNS record and select CNAME as the record type
- 2.Enter the name for the CNAME record. The name or DNS entry is where you enter your subdomain. You might need to enter it in full (e.g. status.example.com) or you might just need to enter the part before your apex domain (e.g. status). If you're not sure which to use, check with your DNS provider.
- 3.Enter the ilert URL of your status page as the value for the CNAME record. The target or value or destination is where the subdomain should be pointed. Taking the screenshot from above as an example, you would need to enter
ilert-demo.ilert.io.
You might also see a field named TTL, which stands for Time To Live. It's the number of seconds that the DNS record can be cached for. If you're not sure what to set, look at the TTL for your existing DNS records. You could set the same number. If you're still not sure, we suggest setting 43200 seconds (12 hours) or 86400 seconds (24 hours).
Are you using Cloudflare?
Whenever possible, please turn off Cloudflare proxying (the orange cloud, also called "Proxy status" in your domain settings) to ensure that your status page is served without issues and can be monitored by ilert.
You might need to wait 1-48 hours for the DNS changes to take effect. This depends on the TTL setting of your DNS record and the time it takes until the DNS change is propagated throughout the internet.
Communicate incidents to your users right where they are using your service: on your web site or web app.
To embed the status of your status page in your web app or website, you can use ilert's floating staus widget or status badge. The status page widget will only be visible only if there is an ongoing incident or scheduled maintenance and will be hidden if all services are operating normally. The status widget will always be visible and show the overall status of your status page.
To configure you status page floating widget:
- 1.Go to Status Pages
- 2.Click on the Status Page where you would like configure the widget
- 3.Click on the Status embed tab
- 4.Select Floating widget
- 5.Configure your widget by choosing your colors and widget position, copy the generated snippet code.
- 6.Paste the generated code snippet from step 4 into the
<head>section of your target page. - 7.Test the widget by creating a test maintenance window or incident.
Making changes to your widget
Changes to your status page will not propagate automatically to your pages. You need to update the code snippet in your target for any changes to take effect.
Yes. Our Premium plan even gives you unlimited stakeholder licenses. That way, you can invite as many customers as you need without requiring a full license.
To isolate customer's from each other, we recommend the following approach:
- 1.
- 2.Invite your customer to ilert chosing the Stakeholder role
- 3.Add the customer to the respective customer team.
- 4.Assign the status page to the respective customer team.
You probably forgot to activate your status page. Once you are satisfied with your status page, click on the Activate button to make your page available and viewable to your users.
Yes, create private status page and configure an IP whitelist in the status page settings.