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title: "Status Page — monitoring glossary"
description: "A status page is a public dashboard that displays the current health of a service and the history of past incidents. Status pages set customer expectations…"
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# Status Page

> A status page is a public dashboard that displays the current health of a service and the history of past incidents. Status pages set customer expectations during outages, cut inbound support volume, and act as the single source of truth communications teams…

**Also known as:** Status page, Public status page, System status

## Definition

 Modern status pages support three surfaces: component health (per-service up/down/degraded), incident history (with post-mortem write-ups), and subscription (email, RSS, webhook, or Slack push when status changes).

 Good status pages are hosted on a separate origin from the product so that a full outage still leaves the status page reachable. Lemwatch runs status pages on isolated infrastructure and supports vanity URLs like status.yourbrand.com via custom CNAME.

## Why it matters

 Silence during an outage is worse than the outage. A live status page turns 200 angry support tickets into 200 customers refreshing the same page — and gives your team the breathing room to actually fix the issue.

 See it in the product: [Branded status pages](https://lemwatch.com/features/status-pages).


## Related

- [Monitoring glossary](https://lemwatch.com/glossary)
- [Incident](https://lemwatch.com/glossary/incident)
- [SLA](https://lemwatch.com/glossary/sla)
- [Website Monitoring](https://lemwatch.com/glossary/monitoring)
- [Uptime](https://lemwatch.com/glossary/uptime)
- [Downtime](https://lemwatch.com/glossary/downtime)
- [All monitoring checks](https://lemwatch.com/features)
- [Synthetic Monitoring](https://lemwatch.com/glossary/synthetic-monitoring)