Highly available services that serve millions of requests rely on the visibility of the system status for customers and internal teams.

This tutorial shows how a lightweight and performant time-series database coupled with queued status checks and a simple UI are key ingredients for robust application monitoring.

Why build a status page for an application?

Even if we design the most reliable systems, incidents will occur for hard-to-predict reasons.

It’s critical to provide as much information as possible to users, customers, and service teams.

The most convenient way to display this is through a status page.

Although the page’s responsibility is to provide information, it can reduce the support team’s load and eliminate duplicate support tickets.

Status pages are a crucial part of incident management, and usually, other teams enjoy benefits like client and service owners when they need to refer to SLAs.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to build a simple yet powerful status page that scores well on performance and design.

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