Getting Started

Welcome to Statuswerk. This guide walks you through the essentials: creating your first status page, adding components, and going live.

1. Sign up and create your workspace

After registering, you land in your dashboard. Each account gets one workspace — the container for your status pages, team members, and subscribers.

2. Create a status page

In Dashboard → Statuspages, click New Statuspage. You need:

• Name — shown as the page title (e.g. Acme Cloud)
• Slug — the URL segment under our default subdomain (e.g. acme → acme.statuswerk.eu)
• Description — what services this page covers

Your page is immediately public at acme.statuswerk.eu.

3. Add components

Components are the services you want to communicate status about — APIs, databases, regions, dashboards. Group related components into component groups for clarity.

Production
├── API
├── Web App
└── Database

Staging
└── API

Each component has a current status: Operational, Degraded Performance, Partial Outage, Major Outage, or Under Maintenance.

4. Subscribers (optional)

If you want users to receive notifications when an incident is opened or a maintenance is scheduled, enable subscriptions on your status page. Subscribers can verify via email, SMS, or webhook.

See Subscribers for details.

5. Your first incident

When something breaks, go to Statuspages → Incidents → New. Pick severity, affected components, a title, and a first update message. Subscribers are notified immediately if subscriptions are enabled.

You can keep posting updates as the situation evolves and close the incident when resolved.

Next steps

• Custom Domains — point your own domain at your status page
• API Reference — automate incident management from CI/CD or monitoring tools