---
title: "Guides"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/guides"
description: "All the latest guides from openstatus."
---

# Guides

All the latest guides from openstatus.

- [Incident Commander](/guides/incident-commander) - Oct 22, 2026
- [Slack Incident Management](/guides/slack-incident-management) - Oct 22, 2026
- [Connect Openstatus to ChatGPT (MCP Setup Guide)](/guides/connect-openstatus-to-chatgpt) - Sep 08, 2026
- [Connect Openstatus to Codex (MCP Setup Guide)](/guides/connect-openstatus-to-codex) - Sep 08, 2026
- [Connect Openstatus to opencode (MCP Setup Guide)](/guides/connect-openstatus-to-opencode) - Sep 08, 2026
- [Error Budgets Explained](/guides/error-budgets-explained) - Aug 15, 2026
- [Incident Communication](/guides/incident-communication) - Aug 15, 2026
- [What Is a Good Server Response Time?](/guides/what-is-a-good-response-time) - Aug 15, 2026
- [DORA Incident Reporting Requirements](/guides/dora-incident-reporting-requirements) - Jul 26, 2026
- [ISO 27001 Incident Communication](/guides/iso-27001-incident-communication) - Jul 26, 2026
- [NIS2 Incident Reporting Requirements](/guides/nis2-incident-reporting-requirements) - Jul 26, 2026
- [SOC 2 Status Page Requirements](/guides/soc-2-status-page-requirements) - Jul 26, 2026
- [How to Migrate from Checkly to openstatus](/guides/migrate-from-checkly) - Jul 11, 2026
- [A Hosted Uptime Kuma Alternative](/guides/hosted-uptime-kuma-alternative) - Jun 19, 2026
- [How to Migrate from UptimeRobot to openstatus](/guides/migrate-from-uptime-robot) - Jun 19, 2026
- [Top Five Pingdom Alternatives in 2026](/guides/top-five-pingdom-alternatives) - Jun 19, 2026
- [Why Is My Monitor Failing? A Troubleshooting Guide](/guides/why-is-my-monitor-failing) - Jun 19, 2026
- [Best Hosted Status Page Tools in 2026](/guides/best-hosted-status-page-2026) - Jun 09, 2026
- [Best Incident Communication Tools in 2026](/guides/best-incident-communication-tools-2026) - Jun 09, 2026
- [Status Page Pricing Compared: Atlassian, Instatus, Better Stack, Datadog & openstatus](/guides/how-openstatus-compares-to-other-status-page-tools) - Jun 09, 2026
- [Top Five Atlassian Statuspage Alternatives in 2026](/guides/top-five-atlassian-statuspage-alternatives) - Jun 09, 2026
- [Top Five Instatus Alternatives in 2026](/guides/top-five-instatus-alternatives) - Jun 09, 2026
- [What Is MTTR? (And the Other MTT-Whatevers)](/guides/what-is-mttr) - May 09, 2026
- [Connect Openstatus to Claude Code (MCP Setup Guide)](/guides/connect-openstatus-to-claude-code) - May 08, 2026
- [Connect Openstatus to Claude Desktop (MCP Setup Guide)](/guides/connect-openstatus-to-claude-desktop) - May 08, 2026
- [What Is Incident Management?](/guides/what-is-incident-management) - May 08, 2026
- [What Is Synthetic Monitoring?](/guides/what-is-synthetic-monitoring) - May 07, 2026
- [What Is Uptime Monitoring?](/guides/what-is-uptime-monitoring) - May 06, 2026
- [Status Page Terminology: Partial Outage, Degraded and Major Outage Explained](/guides/what-is-a-status-page) - May 05, 2026
- [Deliver Status Updates to Customer Slack Channels](/guides/slack-status-page-subscriptions) - Apr 23, 2026
- [How to Migrate from Atlassian Statuspage to openstatus](/guides/migrate-from-atlassian-statuspage) - Mar 27, 2026
- [How to Migrate from Better Stack to openstatus](/guides/migrate-from-betterstack) - Mar 27, 2026
- [How to Migrate from Instatus to openstatus](/guides/migrate-from-instatus) - Mar 27, 2026
- [Incident Severity Matrix Template](/guides/incident-severity-matrix) - Feb 26, 2026
- [HTTP Headers Every Developer Should Know](/guides/http-headers) - Feb 22, 2026
- [Why Every SaaS Needs a Status Page](/guides/why-every-saas-needs-a-status-page) - Feb 15, 2026
- [Why Uptime Percentage Alone is Misleading](/guides/why-uptime-percentage-is-misleading) - Feb 13, 2026
- [Public Postmortems are Underrated Marketing](/guides/public-postmortem-underrated-marketing) - Feb 11, 2026
- [SLA vs SLO vs SLI Explained](/guides/sla-vs-slo-vs-sli) - Feb 09, 2026
- [Status Pages Should Be Boring](/guides/boring-is-better-for-status-pages) - Feb 07, 2026
- [Public vs Private Status Pages](/guides/public-vs-private-status-pages) - Feb 05, 2026
- [API Service Disruption Template](/guides/api-service-disruption) - Jan 19, 2026
- [Best Open Source Status Page Tools 2026](/guides/best-opensource-status-page-2026) - Jan 19, 2026
- [Database Performance Degradation Template](/guides/database-performance-degradation) - Jan 19, 2026
- [Deployment Rollback Template](/guides/deployment-rollback) - Jan 19, 2026
- [Feature Degradation Template](/guides/feature-degradation) - Jan 19, 2026
- [Network Connectivity Issues Template](/guides/network-connectivity-issues) - Jan 19, 2026
- [Scheduled Maintenance Template](/guides/scheduled-maintenance) - Jan 19, 2026
- [Security Incident Response Template](/guides/security-incident-response) - Jan 19, 2026