Tutorials

Overview

Step-by-step tutorials to create monitors, status pages, and private locations with openstatus.

Create an Uptime Monitor in 5 Minutes

Set up your first uptime monitor with openstatus — track response time, status codes, and availability from 35+ global locations.

Create a Status Page

A step-by-step tutorial to create and publish your first status page

Configure Your Status Page

A step-by-step tutorial to customize and configure your status page

Create a Private Location

Set up monitoring from your own infrastructure using Docker-based private probes

Get Started with openstatus CLI

Step-by-step tutorial to install and use the openstatus CLI for monitoring as code

Set Up the openstatus Slack Agent

A step-by-step tutorial to install the openstatus Slack agent and manage incidents directly from Slack

Connect openstatus to Claude Code

Step-by-step tutorial to add the openstatus MCP server to Claude Code so the agent can read and manage your status pages from the terminal

Manage Your openstatus Stack with Terraform and the CLI

Use Terraform to manage monitors, status pages, and notifications as code — and the openstatus CLI to handle incident status reports.

Import a Status Page from Another Provider

Import your existing status page setup from Atlassian Statuspage, Better Stack, or Instatus into openstatus