How to Deploy a Status Page to Cloudflare Pages

Problem

You need a fast, reliable, and automated status page, but you don't want to manage the hosting infrastructure. Manually updating a status page during an incident is inefficient and error-prone.

Solution

Deploy a custom status page to Cloudflare's global edge network using openstatus as the data source. This guide shows you how to use our Astro-based template to create a status page that automatically reflects your monitoring data.

The code for the template is available on GitHub.

Prerequisites

A Cloudflare account
An openstatus account with at least one monitor configured.

Step-by-step guide

1. Get your openstatus API key

First, you need an API key to fetch your monitoring data.

Navigate to your openstatus dashboard.
Go to Settings → API Token.
Click Create API Key and copy the key.

2. Set up the Astro project

Clone our status page template and install the dependencies.

git clone https://github.com/openstatusHQ/astro-status-page.git
cd astro-status-page
pnpm install

3. Customize the status page

You need to specify which monitors to display on your page.

Open the src/pages/index.astro file.
Find the following line of code:
```
const monitorIds = [1]
```
Replace the 1 with the ID of the monitor you want to display. You can find the monitor ID in the URL when you view a monitor in the openstatus dashboard (/monitors/[ID]). You can also add multiple IDs: [1, 2, 5].

4. Configure your Cloudflare environment variable

Before deploying, you must provide your openstatus API key to Cloudflare.

Go to your Cloudflare dashboard and click on Workers & Pages.
Select your site and go to the Settings tab.
Navigate to Environment variables and add a new variable:
- Variable name: API_KEY
- Value: Paste your openstatus API key here.

5. Deploy to Cloudflare Pages

Now you can deploy your status page.

pnpm run pages:deploy

After the command completes, your status page will be live on Cloudflare Pages. 🎉