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Setting up a status page

Create and publish a public status page in minutes.

Last updated May 9, 2026

A StatusOwl status page gives your users a live view of your service health. Every page is served from a fast edge network — *.statusowl.app — and stays up even when your origin is down.

Creating a status page

  1. In the dashboard, go to Status Pages → New Page.
  2. Enter a page name and pick a subdomain (e.g. acme → acme.statusowl.app).
  3. Optional: upload a logo and choose theme settings — see Theming & branding.
  4. Click Create. The page is immediately live at its *.statusowl.app URL.

Wire up components

A component is a service or subsystem your users see on the page — "API", "Web", "Auth gateway". Each component is a monitor (or a group of monitors) attached to the page; the public status of the component is rolled up automatically from the underlying monitor state. See Components for the full lifecycle: attach / reorder / hide / detach.

Post incidents and schedule maintenance

When something breaks, post an incident with status updates so users see the same picture you do. Schedule maintenance windows ahead of planned downtime so the page renders the work as expected, not as an outage. Both flows are documented in Incidents & maintenance.

StatusOwl can also auto-open an incident after 3 consecutive down results on a monitor that's attached to the page — opt in per page in the status page's Settings tab.

Custom domain

On Starter and above, you can serve the page at your own domain (e.g. status.example.com). Add the TXT and CNAME records the dashboard prints, wait for verification, and the page swaps over with a Let's Encrypt certificate. Full setup, troubleshooting, and apex-domain notes are in Custom domains.

The free *.statusowl.app URL keeps working alongside any custom domain — both URLs serve the same content.

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