Guide
How to set up a status page for your SaaS
A status page is how your users find out what's going on when something breaks. You can connect it to monitors for automatic updates, or manage it yourself through the dashboard and the API.
STEP 1
Create the status page
Go to Status Pages and create a new page. Pick a slug — this becomes your URL at yourslug.status.larm.dev.
Add your brand color and logo, choose a theme (light, dark, or follow the visitor's system preference), and write an optional description.
STEP 2
Add your components
Components are the services your users care about — "API", "Dashboard", "Payment processing", whatever makes sense. Give each one a name your users will understand ("API" instead of "prod-api-health-check-v2").
If you're using Larm monitors, you can link a component to one or more monitors. When a monitor detects a problem, the component state updates automatically. If you're not using monitors, leave them unlinked — you'll manage the state through incidents.
STEP 3
Post your first update
Everything on your status page flows through incidents. When something happens, you create an incident — either from the Incidents page or by hitting the Post Update button on your status page.
Pick the affected components, set their state (degraded, partial outage, major outage), and write an update. The status page re-renders and deploys to CDN within seconds. Subscribers get notified by email.
As the situation develops, post more updates. When it's resolved, close the incident. The component goes back to operational and the incident moves to the history section.
STEP 4
Add a custom domain
On Pro, you can serve your status page from your own domain — status.yourcompany.com. Add a CNAME record pointing to your Larm status page URL. Larm handles DNS verification and SSL provisioning automatically.
Your users see your brand, not ours.
Why not Atlassian Statuspage?
Atlassian Statuspage is the most widely used status page product. It's also $29–$399/mo for a page that doesn't monitor anything. You need a separate monitoring tool to detect outages, and someone has to manually update the page when something goes wrong.
Larm bundles monitoring and status pages together. The free tier gives you 15 monitors and a status page. Pro at $19/mo gives you 100 monitors, 3 status pages with custom domains, and 10 team seats. And if you don't need monitoring, Larm works as a standalone status page with incident management and automatic CDN rendering — still cheaper than Statuspage.
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