Why You Need a Status Page Before You Need a Status Page

You don’t build fire exits during a fire.

So why do so many teams wait until after their first big outage to build a status page?

Spoiler: by the time your users are angry, your Slack is exploding, and support is drowning in tickets… it’s already too late.

Here’s why you should set up a status page before you need it — and how to do it in under 10 minutes 👇

🧠 Outages Are Inevitable — Panic Doesn’t Have to Be

Your app will go down someday.

That’s just reality.

What matters is how you respond — and how you keep your users informed.

A status page helps you:

• Communicate issues in real time

• Build trust even during bad moments

• Reduce support volume

• Show you're serious about transparency

❌ The “Oh Crap” Scenario (You Don’t Want)

You ship fast, monitoring’s minimal, life’s good.

Then boom — DNS issue, your API is unreachable.

What happens?

• You scramble to investigate

• Customers start tweeting

• Your support team panics

• And you realize... “We should’ve had a status page.”

But now you’re building one under pressure, during chaos.

Which means… you probably won’t do it right.

✅ The Proactive Move (You Definitely Want)

Set up your status page now — while things are calm.

With tools like Garmingo Status, it literally takes under 10 minutes to go live.

• Link your monitors

• Add your logo & branding

• Publish to your custom domain (e.g. status.yourapp.com)

• Optional: Add incident templates, alert routing, scheduled maintenance

You're now prepared.

And your future self will thank you.

💡 Bonus: It’s Not Just for Outages

You can also use your status page for:

• ✅ Release updates

• 🧪 Maintenance announcements

• 🔐 Security incident transparency

• 📊 SLA history & uptime metrics

• 🧘 Internal monitoring (private mode)

🎁 Want to Set One Up Right Now?

With Garmingo Status, you get:

• 🧠 Multiple monitor types

• 🎨 Fully customizable status pages

• 🔔 Smart alerts via Email, Slack, Telegram, Discord & more

• 📄 Monthly PDF reports, SLA targets

• 🆓 A forever free plan — no credit card needed

👉 Start your free status page now

🧘‍♂️ TL;DR

By the time you realize you need a status page — it’s already too late.

Set it up now.

Keep your users in the loop.

And turn downtime into a moment of trust — not chaos.