Manage your components

Components are the building blocks of your service. These might be parts like your website, mobile app or API. Here's how to setup and manage your components.

Add a component

Login to your Instatus at instatus.com/login then choose your status page.

Go to components, then click on add a component button:

Once you click it, the "Add a component" form will appear. Here you can enter:

• Component name.
• Component group.
• Whether to show historical uptime.

Click add component, and it will be added to your page.

Edit a component

To edit a component name or update its status, just click on the component or the edit button.

Then you can:

• Edit the name.
• Edit the status.
• Edit the group.
• Edit displaying historical uptime.

After We're done with edits, click Save button.

Archive a component

A component can be archived by clicking the bin icon and then clicking ARCHIVE, it can later be restored by clicking the RESTORE button.

An archived component will not appear on the status page, it will only appear when it's affected by an active incident or maintenance or it's status is not operational.

Groups

A component group can be added by either

1. Add a component and select create new group and enter group's name.
2. Edit a component and select create new group and enter group's name.

Re-order a component or group

To re-order a component or group, hover over it and use the re-order button on the right and drag the component to re-order.

Delete a group

Deleting groups isn't explicit. If a group becomes not assigned to any component, it will dissappear from your status page.

Third party components

You can add third party services that you depend on to your status page, so that if you're having issues you and your customers can know that it's caused by a third party component and that the issue is out of your control.

Add a third party component

Login to Instatus from instatus.com/login choose your status page, then go to Components → Third party.

• Here you'll find a wide range of services that you can add to your status page.

• If you didn't find a service that you're looking for you can always Suggest a service and we'll be on it.
• Simply click on a service and enable the components that you want to appear on your status page.

When a third party component is added to your status page, it'll appear without showing the uptime, and whenever a third party component is down it'll be updated on your status page without affecting your general status and your uptime.