How-to Guides
🛠️ How-to Guides
What you'll find here
Our how-to guides are designed to help you:
- Solve specific problems with step-by-step instructions
- Implement advanced features and integrations
- Customize and extend your openstatus setup
Monitoring & Integration
Extend your monitoring capabilities:
- Monitor Your MCP Server - Set up monitoring for Model Context Protocol servers
- Export Metrics to OTLP Endpoint - Send monitoring data to your observability platform
- Run Synthetic Tests in GitHub Actions - Automate testing in your CI/CD pipeline
Status Pages & Widgets
Share your status with users:
- Add SVG Status Badge to GitHub README - Display real-time status in your repository
- Use React Status Widget - Embed live status updates in your React application
- Deploy Status Page on Cloudflare Pages - Host your status page on Cloudflare's edge network
Infrastructure & Deployment
Self-host and customize your setup:
- Deploy Private Locations on Cloudflare Containers - Run monitoring agents in your own infrastructure
- Self-Host openstatus - Deploy openstatus on your own servers
- Self-Host Status Page Only - Deploy only the status page without monitoring
Related sections
- Tutorials - If you need step-by-step learning instead
- Explanations - To understand the concepts behind these guides
- Reference - For detailed technical specifications