How-to Guides

Our how-to guides solve specific problems with step-by-step instructions, walk you through advanced features and integrations, and show you how to customise and extend your openstatus setup.

Monitoring and integration

• Monitor your MCP server — set up monitoring for Model Context Protocol servers.
• Export metrics to an OTLP endpoint — send monitoring data to your observability platform.
• Run synthetic tests in GitHub Actions — automate testing in your CI/CD pipeline.
• Manage openstatus with Terraform — declare monitors, pages, and notifications as code.

Status pages and widgets

• Configure your status page — trackers, themes, links, and locales.
• Import a status page from another provider — migrate from Statuspage, Better Stack, Instatus, or Checkly.
• Translate your status page — offer the page in multiple languages.
• Create your own status page theme — design and contribute a community theme.
• Add an SVG status badge to a GitHub README — display real-time status in your repository.
• Use the React status widget — embed live status updates in your React application.
• Embed a status page in an iframe — drop a chromeless status page into any site.
• Deploy a status page on Cloudflare Pages — host your status page on Cloudflare's edge network.
• Post status updates to X and Bluesky — mirror your status page on social media.

Agents and team workflow

• Connect openstatus to your coding agent — give Claude Code, Codex, opencode, Cursor, or ChatGPT access through the MCP server.
• Set up the Slack agent — manage incidents from Slack in natural language.
• Set up SAML single sign-on — let your team sign in through your identity provider.

Infrastructure and deployment

• Create a private location — run a monitoring probe on your own infrastructure.
• Deploy a private probe on Cloudflare Containers — serverless deployment for private probes.
• Self-host openstatus — deploy openstatus on your own servers.
• Self-host the status page only — deploy just the status page without monitoring.

Related sections

• Tutorials — for step-by-step learning instead.
• Explanations — to understand the concepts behind these guides.
• Reference — for detailed technical specifications.