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How to Build a Status Page with Vigilmon (Free)

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How to Build a Status Page with Vigilmon (Free)

A status page is your public-facing reliability dashboard — it tells customers whether your service is up or down before they flood your support inbox. This guide explains how to set up uptime monitoring with Vigilmon and communicate status to your users.

Why You Need a Status Page

When your app goes down, users will refresh obsessively, email your support team, and assume the worst. A public status page short-circuits all of this — users check it, see the incident, and stop guessing. It also signals engineering maturity to enterprise customers who require SLA visibility.

What Vigilmon Monitors for Status Communication

Vigilmon checks your services from multiple geographic regions simultaneously. You can monitor:

  • Web app: https://your-app.com/health — 200 = operational
  • API: https://api.your-app.com/v1/health — 200 = operational
  • Auth service: https://auth.your-app.com/health — 200 = operational
  • Webhook endpoints: Individual webhook handlers
  • Third-party dependencies: External APIs your app depends on

Setting Up Status Communication

Option 1: Email Status Updates

When Vigilmon detects downtime, your on-call engineer receives an alert. Send a status email:

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Option 2: Webhook Integration for Automated Updates

Vigilmon can send webhooks when monitors go up or down. Use these to automate status page updates:

// Receive Vigilmon webhook
app.post('/vigilmon-webhook', (req, res) => {
  const { monitor, status, timestamp } = req.body;

  updateStatusPage({
    service: monitor.name,
    status: status === 'up' ? 'operational' : 'degraded',
    timestamp
  });

  res.sendStatus(200);
});
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Option 3: Simple HTML Status Page

Create a status page that reads from your monitoring data:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>YourApp Status</title>
    <style>
        .status-card { padding: 16px; border-radius: 8px; margin: 8px 0; }
        .operational { background: #d4edda; }
        .degraded { background: #fff3cd; }
        .outage { background: #f8d7da; }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>System Status</h1>
    <div class="status-card operational">
        <strong>Web App</strong> - Operational
    </div>
    <div class="status-card operational">
        <strong>API</strong> - Operational
    </div>
    <div class="status-card operational">
        <strong>Authentication</strong> - Operational
    </div>
</body>
</html>
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Vigilmon Alert Routing for Status Management

Configure alert routing by severity:

Critical services (API, Auth, Payments):
- Immediate: PagerDuty to on-call engineer
- 2 minutes: Slack #incidents channel
- 5 minutes: Email to engineering lead

Non-critical services (Marketing site, Docs):
- 5 minutes: Slack #monitoring
- 30 minutes: Email digest
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SLA Monitoring with Vigilmon

Vigilmon tracks uptime percentage over time. Use this for SLA reporting:

SLA Target Max Monthly Downtime Max Annual Downtime
99.9% 43.8 minutes 8.7 hours
99.5% 3.6 hours 43.8 hours
99% 7.3 hours 87.6 hours

Review your Vigilmon dashboard monthly to verify SLA compliance.

Components to Monitor for a Complete Status Page

Component What to Monitor Vigilmon Check
Web Application Main URL HTTP 200
REST API /api/health endpoint HTTP 200 + keyword
Authentication /auth/health HTTP 200
Database Via app health endpoint App reports DB status
CDN/Assets Static asset URL HTTP 200
Email Service Email health endpoint HTTP 200

Best Practices

  1. Monitor what users experience — not just internal services
  2. Create a public status page — even a simple one builds trust during incidents
  3. Communicate during incidents — silence is worse than bad news
  4. Set up recovery alerts — notify users when issues resolve
  5. Track historical uptime — use Vigilmon data for SLA reporting and customer review periods

Conclusion

A status page backed by reliable monitoring transforms incidents from PR disasters into trust-building moments. Vigilmon provides the monitoring foundation — multi-region checks, instant alerts, and uptime history — that powers a credible status page.

Set up your uptime monitoring free at vigilmon.online

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