Status Page UI

Build a status page UI using OpenStatus — from a quick React widget to a fully custom page with composable components. Choose the approach that fits your needs.

When to Use

• "build a status page with OpenStatus"
• "add a status page to my app"
• "embed a status widget"
• "integrate OpenStatus UI into my router"
• "show monitor status in my dashboard"
• "fetch status page data with the SDK"
• User wants to render monitors, uptime bars, incident timelines, or maintenance feeds

Choose Your Approach

Approach	Best For	Effort
React Widget	Quick embed in any React app	5 min
Component Registry	Custom status page with full control	30 min
Node.js SDK	Programmatic data fetching & management	20 min

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Approach 1: React Widget (Quickest)

For a simple status indicator, use the @openstatus/react package:

npm install @openstatus/react

React Server Component:

import { StatusWidget } from "@openstatus/react";

export function Page() {
  return <StatusWidget slug="your-slug" />;
}

With custom link: <StatusWidget slug="your-slug" href="https://status.yourdomain.com" />

StatusWidget is an async RSC — it only works with React Server Components.

Custom widget with getStatus:

import { getStatus } from "@openstatus/react";

async function CustomStatus() {
  const { status } = await getStatus("your-slug");
  // status: "unknown" | "operational" | "degraded_performance"
  //       | "partial_outage" | "major_outage" | "under_maintenance" | "incident"
  return <div>Current status: {status}</div>;
}

Styling:

• With Tailwind: add "./node_modules/@openstatus/react/**/*.{js,ts,jsx,tsx}" to your content config
• Without Tailwind: import "@openstatus/react/dist/styles.css"

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Approach 2: Component Registry (Full Custom UI)

For complete control, install composable components from the OpenStatus shadcn-compatible registry.

Step 1: Install Components

# Everything (recommended for a full status page)
npx shadcn@latest add https://openstatus.dev/r/status-complete.json

# Or only essentials (banner, layout, icons, blank states)
npx shadcn@latest add https://openstatus.dev/r/status-essentials.json

# Or individual components
npx shadcn@latest add https://openstatus.dev/r/status-banner.json
npx shadcn@latest add https://openstatus.dev/r/status-component.json
npx shadcn@latest add https://openstatus.dev/r/status-bar.json
npx shadcn@latest add https://openstatus.dev/r/status-feed.json

Step 2: Add CSS Variables

Add status color variables to your global CSS (required):

@layer base {
  :root {
    --success: 142.1 76.2% 36.3%;
    --success-foreground: 355.7 100% 97.3%;
    --warning: 38 92% 50%;
    --warning-foreground: 48 96% 89%;
    --destructive: 0 84.2% 60.2%;
    --destructive-foreground: 0 0% 98%;
    --info: 221.2 83.2% 53.3%;
    --info-foreground: 210 40% 98%;
  }

  .dark {
    --success: 142.1 70.6% 45.3%;
    --success-foreground: 144.9 80.4% 10%;
    --warning: 38 92% 50%;
    --warning-foreground: 48 96% 89%;
    --destructive: 0 72.2% 50.6%;
    --destructive-foreground: 0 85.7% 97.3%;
    --info: 217.2 91.2% 59.8%;
    --info-foreground: 222.2 47.4% 11.2%;
  }
}

Extend Tailwind config:

// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        success: "hsl(var(--success))",
        "success-foreground": "hsl(var(--success-foreground))",
        warning: "hsl(var(--warning))",
        "warning-foreground": "hsl(var(--warning-foreground))",
        info: "hsl(var(--info))",
        "info-foreground": "hsl(var(--info-foreground))",
      },
    },
  },
};

Step 3: Fetch Data

Use the OpenStatus SDK (see Approach 3) or your own data source. Components expect these types:

type StatusType = "success" | "degraded" | "error" | "info" | "empty";

interface StatusBarData {
  day: string;
  bar: { status: StatusType; height: number }[]; // heights must sum to 100%
  card: { status: StatusType; value: string }[];
  events: {
    id: number;
    name: string;
    type: "incident" | "report" | "maintenance";
    from: Date | null;
    to: Date | null;
  }[];
}

interface StatusReport {
  id: number;
  title: string;
  affected: string[];
  updates: {
    date: Date;
    message: string;
    status: "investigating" | "identified" | "monitoring" | "resolved";
  }[];
}

interface Maintenance {
  id: number;
  title: string;
  affected: string[];
  message: string;
  from: Date;
  to: Date;
}

Step 4: Compose the Page

import {
  Status, StatusHeader, StatusBrand, StatusTitle,
  StatusDescription, StatusContent,
} from "@/components/blocks/status-layout";
import { StatusBanner } from "@/components/blocks/status-banner";
import {
  StatusComponent, StatusComponentHeader,
  StatusComponentHeaderLeft, StatusComponentHeaderRight,
  StatusComponentIcon, StatusComponentTitle,
  StatusComponentDescription, StatusComponentUptime,
  StatusComponentStatus, StatusComponentBody,
  StatusComponentFooter,
} from "@/components/blocks/status-component";
import { StatusBar } from "@/components/blocks/status-bar";
import { StatusFeed } from "@/components/blocks/status-feed";

export function MyStatusPage({ monitors, reports, maintenances, overallStatus }) {
  return (
    <Status variant={overallStatus}>
      <StatusHeader>
        <div className="flex items-center gap-4">
          <StatusBrand src="/logo.png" alt="My Company" />
          <div>
            <StatusTitle>System Status</StatusTitle>
            <StatusDescription>Current health of all services</StatusDescription>
          </div>
        </div>
      </StatusHeader>

      <StatusBanner status={overallStatus} />

      <StatusContent>
        {monitors.map((monitor) => (
          <StatusComponent key={monitor.id} variant={monitor.status}>
            <StatusComponentHeader>
              <StatusComponentHeaderLeft>
                <StatusComponentIcon />
                <StatusComponentTitle>{monitor.name}</StatusComponentTitle>
                <StatusComponentDescription>
                  {monitor.description}
                </StatusComponentDescription>
              </StatusComponentHeaderLeft>
              <StatusComponentHeaderRight>
                <StatusComponentUptime>{monitor.uptime}%</StatusComponentUptime>
                <StatusComponentStatus />
              </StatusComponentHeaderRight>
            </StatusComponentHeader>
            <StatusComponentBody>
              <StatusBar data={monitor.barData} />
              <StatusComponentFooter data={monitor.barData} />
            </StatusComponentBody>
          </StatusComponent>
        ))}
      </StatusContent>

      <StatusFeed statusReports={reports} maintenances={maintenances} />
    </Status>
  );
}

Step 5: Optional Enhancements

See references/component-api.md for the full component API and references/advanced-patterns.md for collapsible groups, tabbed banners, and custom banner composition.

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Approach 3: Node.js SDK

Programmatically manage status pages and fetch data with @openstatus/sdk-node:

npm install @openstatus/sdk-node

Create a Status Page with Components

import {
  createOpenStatusClient,
  Periodicity,
  Region,
} from "@openstatus/sdk-node";

const client = createOpenStatusClient({
  apiKey: process.env.OPENSTATUS_API_KEY,
});

// Create a status page
const { statusPage } = await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.createStatusPage({
  title: "Acme Status",
  slug: "acme-status",
  description: "Real-time status of Acme services",
  homepageUrl: "https://acme.com",
  contactUrl: "mailto:support@acme.com",
});

// Add a monitor component (linked to a live monitor)
await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.addMonitorComponent({
  pageId: statusPage!.id,
  monitorId: existingMonitorId,
  name: "Production API",
  description: "Core API endpoint",
  order: 1,
});

// Add a static component (manual status only, no linked monitor)
await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.addStaticComponent({
  pageId: statusPage!.id,
  name: "Third-Party Payment Gateway",
  description: "External dependency",
  order: 2,
});

// Create a component group
const { group } = await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.createComponentGroup({
  pageId: statusPage!.id,
  name: "Infrastructure",
});

// Move a component into a group
await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.updateComponent({
  id: componentId,
  groupId: group!.id,
  groupOrder: 1,
});

Fetch Status Page Content

// Get full page content (components, groups, active reports, maintenances)
const content = await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.getStatusPageContent({
  identifier: { case: "slug", value: "acme-status" },
});

// Get overall status summary
const { overallStatus, componentStatuses } =
  await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.getOverallStatus({
    identifier: { case: "slug", value: "acme-status" },
  });

Subscriber Management

// Subscribe a user
await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.subscribeToPage({
  pageId: statusPage!.id,
  email: "user@example.com",
});

// List subscribers
const { subscribers } = await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.listSubscribers({
  pageId: statusPage!.id,
  limit: 50,
});

// Unsubscribe
await client.statusPage.v1.StatusPageService.unsubscribeFromPage({
  pageId: statusPage!.id,
  identifier: { case: "email", value: "user@example.com" },
});

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Page Components: Monitor vs Static

OpenStatus supports two types of page components:

Feature	Monitor Component	Static Component
Linked to a monitor	Yes	No
Automatic incidents	Yes	No
Manual status reports	Yes	Yes
Scheduled maintenance	Yes	Yes
Use case	Your own services	Third-party dependencies

Status hierarchy:

• Monitor: Error > Degraded > Info > Success
• Static: Degraded > Info > Success

Component Groups organize related components into collapsible sections (e.g., "API Services", "Infrastructure", "External Dependencies").

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Theming

OpenStatus supports community themes for status pages. Available themes include default, supabase, github-high-contrast, dracula, and more.

• Browse themes at themes.openstatus.dev
• Configure in Dashboard > Status Page settings > Theme Explorer
• Contribute themes by adding CSS variable overrides to the @openstatus/theme-store package

Themes customize: base colors, status colors, brand colors (primary, secondary, muted, accent), and border radius.

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Internationalization (i18n)

Status pages support localization (paid plans only):

• Supported locales: en (English), fr (French), de (German)
• Enable: Dashboard > Status Page settings > Locales
• Routing: locale prefix added as-needed (default locale omitted from URL)
  • Subdomain: /status/fr/events
  • Custom domain: /fr/events

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Configuration Options

Option	Description
Slug	URL path (e.g., acme → acme.openstatus.dev)
Custom Domain	Your own domain with CNAME to status.openstatus.dev
Password Protection	Basic auth; bypass with ?pw=secret
Magic Link Auth	Email domain restriction (paid)
Favicon	Custom browser tab icon
Homepage URL	Where the logo links to
Contact URL	"Message" icon link (supports mailto:)
White Label	Remove "powered by OpenStatus" footer (paid)
JSON Feed	Machine-readable at /feed/json
RSS/Atom Feed	Available at /feed/rss and /feed/atom
SSH Access	ssh [slug]@ssh.openstatus.dev
Tracker Bar Type	absolute or manual
Tracker Card Type	duration or requests (when bar is absolute)
Show Uptime	Toggle uptime percentage display

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Anti-Patterns

• Don't skip CSS variables when using the component registry. Components use var(--success), var(--warning), etc.
• Don't mix import paths. After registry install, import from @/components/blocks/..., not @openstatus/ui/....
• Don't hardcode status labels. Use StatusComponentStatus and StatusBannerMessage — they auto-render from the variant prop.
• Don't forget "use client" directives. StatusComponent, StatusBar, and StatusFeed use client hooks.

Guidelines

• Start with the React Widget if you just need a quick status indicator.
• Use the Component Registry for a fully branded, custom status page in your own router.
• Use the SDK to programmatically create pages, manage components, and fetch data.
• The variant prop drives everything. Pass "success", "degraded", "error", or "info" — child components auto-style via CSS data attributes.
• StatusBar is interactive. Supports hover, keyboard navigation, and touch with no extra wiring.
• StatusFeed merges reports and maintenance. Pass both arrays and it handles chronological sorting.
• All components are composable. Every component accepts className and standard div props.

Related Skills

• status-page-context — Set up the foundational context document (components, SLAs, tone)
• incident-communication — Write status updates during incidents
• maintenance — Write maintenance announcements
• status-report — Write periodic health reports
• global-speed-checker — Run global HTTP performance checks from 28 regions