# Instatus Help > Documentation for Instatus: uptime monitoring, incident response and status pages. Instatus monitors websites, APIs, cron jobs and more, routes incidents to the right people, and publishes public or private status pages. Every article below is also available as Markdown by appending .md to its URL. The complete documentation is in one file at https://instatus.com/help/llms-full.txt. ## Get started - [Get started with Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/index.md): Set up Instatus in minutes: monitor your services, respond to incidents with your team, and publish a status page your customers can subscribe to. ## Monitoring - [Get started with Monitoring](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring.md): Instatus monitors check websites, APIs, cron jobs, hosts, ports and DNS every 30 seconds from multiple regions and alert your team when something fails. - [Website Monitoring](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/website.md): Check a URL every 30 seconds from multiple regions, assert on status code, response time, body and headers, and get alerted when your site goes down. - [API Monitoring](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/api.md): Send GET, POST or any HTTP request with auth, headers and a body, then assert on status code, JSON path, headers and response time to catch API failures. - [Cron Monitoring](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/cron.md): Give each scheduled job a unique URL to ping, set a period and grace time, and get alerted when a backup, batch job or script runs late or fails. - [Ping Monitors](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/ping.md): Send ICMP pings to any host or IP from multiple regions, track reachability and packet loss, and get alerted when a server stops responding. - [TCP & UDP Monitoring](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/tcp-udp.md): TCP and UDP monitors allow you to verify that your servers and applications are reachable over specific network ports. They're ideal for monitoring databases… - [DNS Monitoring](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/dns.md): Check that a domain's A or MX record resolves to the value you expect from multiple regions, and get alerted when it changes or fails to resolve. - [Set up monitor alerts](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/alerts.md): Route monitor alerts to email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, phone call, webhook, WhatsApp or the mobile app when a monitor fails, degrades or recovers. - [Get the Instatus mobile app](https://instatus.com/help/monitoring/mobile-app.md): The Instatus mobile app gives you push notifications for your monitor alerts, and lets you manage your monitors, incidents, and status pages from your phone. ## Incident response - [Get started with incident response](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response.md): Manage incidents from the dashboard, Slack or Microsoft Teams, schedule maintenance, prepare templates, and put the right person on call. - [Get started with Incidents](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/incidents.md): Add an incident with a status, affected components and description, post updates as you work, and publish a postmortem when it is resolved. - [Schedule maintenance periods](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/maintenance.md): Schedule planned maintenance on your status page, notify subscribers before it starts, and post updates until it completes. - [Prepare your templates](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/templates.md): Save incident, maintenance and update templates with a title, status, description and affected components so your team responds consistently. - [General notices](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/general-notices.md): General notices let you pin persistent announcements to your status page. Use them for policy updates, scheduled changes, or any information that isn't tied… - [Get started with Instatus On-call](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/on-call.md): Organize your team into on-call shifts with rotations and restrictions, then escalate unacknowledged incidents with escalation policies and routing rules. - [Escalation policies](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/escalation-policies.md): Escalation policies make sure an incident never goes unhandled. If the first responder doesn't acknowledge an incident in time, the policy escalates it to the… - [Routing rules](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/routing-rules.md): Every triggered incident starts at your routing rules. They decide who gets notified: a teammate, a group, an on-call schedule, or an escalation policy. - [Manage incidents from Slack](https://instatus.com/help/incident-response/slack.md): You can use our Instatus for Slack integration to access all incident response features right from Slack: declare incidents, coordinate responders, track… ## Status page - [Get started with your status page](https://instatus.com/help/status-page.md): Create a public, private or select-audience status page where customers check your current status, follow incidents and subscribe to updates. - [Get started with public status pages](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/public-page.md): Public status pages are open to everyone by default and carry your logo, colors, custom domain and languages so customers can check status and subscribe. - [Get started with private status pages](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/private-page.md): Restrict your status page with email login, Google SSO, an IP allowlist, a single password, a secure link or SAML SSO on the Private Pro or Business plan. - [Get started with Select-audience](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/select-audience.md): If you need to group teammates and give them access to a subset of your components, Select Audience is for you! - [Manage your components](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/components.md): Add, edit, group, reorder and archive the components that appear on your status page, and show historical uptime for each one. - [Third party components](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/third-party-components.md): Show the status of services you depend on, like AWS or Stripe, on your status page without affecting your own uptime or overall status. - [Customize your status page](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/customize.md): Add your logo and colors, pick a header design and dark mode, insert custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and set languages, date formats and social previews. - [Multi-language support](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/multi-language.md): Instatus lets you communicate in the languages of your customers. You can choose a default language and offer additional languages for visitors to switch… - [Add a widget to your website](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/widgets.md): Add a floating status widget or footer badge to your website, or build your own with the summary.json endpoint from your status page. - [Use a custom domain for your Instatus page](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/custom-domain.md): Serve your status page at status.yourcompany.com with a CNAME to cname.instatus.com and an automatic SSL certificate, including Cloudflare setup tips. - [Manage your status page subscribers](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/subscribers.md): Manage email, SMS, webhook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, X and RSS subscribers who get notified about incidents and maintenance. - [Add metrics and charts to your status page](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/metrics.md): Include metrics about your service performance or any other graph data you want to communicate through your status page. - [Notify your subscribers](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications.md): Notify subscribers about incidents and maintenance by email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, webhook, X, RSS or the API. - [Email notifications](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/email.md): Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [SMS notifications](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/sms.md): Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [Webhook notifications](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/webhook.md): Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [X notifications](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/x.md): Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [Slack notifications](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/slack.md): Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [Microsoft Teams](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/ms-teams.md): Log in to Instatus at instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [Discord notifications](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/discord.md): Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [Google Chat](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/google-chat.md): Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [RSS & Atom feeds](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/rss.md): Let customers follow your status page from any feed reader. - [Public API](https://instatus.com/help/status-page/notifications/api.md): Let customers read your status page programmatically. ## Team - [Manage your teammates](https://instatus.com/help/team.md): Login to your Instatus at instatus.com/login then choose your status page. - [Upgrade your status page](https://instatus.com/help/team/upgrade.md): Upgrade from the workspace Billing page: Pro adds a custom domain, private pages and unlimited teammates; Business adds SAML SSO and select-audience pages. - [Set up Single Sign-on](https://instatus.com/help/team/sso.md): Enable SAML single sign-on for the Instatus dashboard or a private status page with Okta, Google, Microsoft, OneLogin, Auth0 and more on the Business plan. - [Activity Log](https://instatus.com/help/team/activity.md): Company administrators can use activity logs to keep track of all changes made to their team, status pages, and issue activity (incidents, maintenances… - [Delete your Instatus account](https://instatus.com/help/team/delete.md): Navigate to dashboard.instatus.com/settings and click on Delete your Account button then follow the prompts. ## Integrations - [Get started with integrations](https://instatus.com/help/integrations.md): Connect monitoring tools like Pingdom, Datadog and Checkly to update components automatically, import metrics, and send notifications to Slack and more. - [Webhook to Incident](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/custom-service-webhook.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Webhook to Incident. Copy your page's webhook URL. - [Email to Incident](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/custom-service-email.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Email to Incident. Copy your component's email address. - [Better Uptime + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/betteruptime.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Better Uptime. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's… - [Checkly + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/checkly.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Checkly. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook URL… - [Datadog + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/datadog.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Datadog. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Freshping + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/freshping.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Freshping. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Grafana + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/grafana.md): In the Instatus dashboard, go to Apps, select Grafana, and generate a Grafana webhook URL. In Grafana, create a new Contact point using the generated webhook… - [HetrixTools + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/hetrixtools.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select HetrixTools. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Jira + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/jira.md): Go to Instatus Jira Integration. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook URL. In your Jira… - [Zendesk + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/zendesk.md): We will integrate by adding a custom app in the support dashboard that displays current incidents and maintenances to inform customers through their tickets. - [New Relic + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/new-relic.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select New Relic. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [PagerDuty + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/pagerduty.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select PagerDuty. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Pingdom + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/pingdom.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Pingdom. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook URL… - [Prometheus + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/prometheus.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Prometheus. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Runscope + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/runscope.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Runscope. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Site24x7 + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/site24x7.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Site24x7. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [StatusCake + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/statuscake.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select StatusCake. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Uptime Robot + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/uptime-robot.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Uptime Robot. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Updown.io + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/updown.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Updown.io. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Use Dynatrace to automate your status page](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/dynatrace.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Dynatrace. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your page's webhook… - [Google Cloud Monitoring + Instatus](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/google-cloud-monitoring.md): Go to Instatus, under Integrations, select Google Cloud Monitoring. Select the templates to use when creating and resolving automated incidents. Copy your… - [Import your Datadog checks](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/metrics/datadog.md): You can import your datadog checks directly to be displayed as metrics on your status page. - [Import your Pingdom checks](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/metrics/pingdom.md): You can import your pingdom checks directly to be displayed as metrics on your status page. - [Import your New Relic metrics](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/metrics/new-relic.md): You can import your New Relic metrics directly to be displayed as metrics on your status page. - [Import your Prometheus metrics](https://instatus.com/help/integrations/metrics/prometheus.md): You can display Prometheus metrics directly on your status page. We pull the latest data automatically every 5 minutes. ## API - [Get started with Instatus API](https://instatus.com/help/api.md): The Instatus REST API at api.instatus.com: authenticate with a bearer token and manage status pages, components, incidents, maintenances, subscribers and more. - [Monitors API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/monitors.md): Monitor Location. | Value | Description |. | ---------------- | ----------------- |. | US_EAST_1 | N. Virginia |. | CA_CENTRAL_1 | Canada (Montreal) |. |… - [Incidents API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/incidents.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Incident Updates API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/incident-updates.md): Example response. Example request. Example response. Example response. - [Status Pages API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/status-pages.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Workspaces API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/workspaces.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Components API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/components.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Teammates API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/teammates.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Maintenances API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/maintenances.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Maintenance Updates API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/maintenance-updates.md): Example response. Example request. Example response. Example request. Example response. - [Templates API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/templates.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [General Notices API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/generic-notices.md): General notices are persistent banners shown on your status page (separate from incidents and maintenances). Use these endpoints to manage them… - [Subscribers API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/subscribers.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. Optional search query is used to filter subscribers… - [Metrics API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/metrics.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [User Profile API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/user-profile.md): User Profile API Reference - [Outages API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/outages.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Publicly available Data](https://instatus.com/help/api/public-data.md): The easiest way to get the current status of your page is through. An example is https://instat.us/summary.json. - [Private pages API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/private-pages.md): If your account has member / owner access to a private status page with secure links enabled, you're allowed to get the secure link to your page. - [Monitoring Integrations API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/monitoring-integrations.md): You can programmatically create third party monitoring integrations using the REST API. - [Audience Groups API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/audience-groups.md): The default page number is 1. The default per_page number is 50 and the maximum is 100 items per page. - [Routing Rules API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/routing-rules.md): Action Type. | Value | Description |. | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------ |. | NOTIFY_TEAM | Notify a specific team |. |… - [Escalation Policies API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/escalation-policies.md): Escalation rule conditions. | Value | Description |. | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- |. | NOT_ACKNOWLEDGED |… - [On-call Schedules API Reference](https://instatus.com/help/api/on-call-schedules.md): Restriction Type. | Value | Description |. | --------------- | -------------------------------------------- |. | NONE | No restriction |. | TIMEOFDAY |…