A status page is one of the highest-leverage pages you can publish: it turns "is your site down?" support tickets into a link, and it shows customers you take reliability seriously. Here's everything you need to launch one for free.
What is a status page?
A status page is a public web page that shows, in real time, whether your services are working. A good one has three parts:
- Current status — a clear "all systems operational" (or not) for each service or component you list.
- Incident history — a timeline of past outages with the updates you posted while resolving them.
- Scheduled maintenance — advance notice of planned downtime so nobody is surprised.
You've almost certainly seen one — most SaaS companies host theirs at an address like status.company.com. Status Tiger links each service on your page to an uptime monitor, so the current status flips automatically the moment a check fails, without you touching anything.
Why do you need one?
Fewer support tickets
During an outage, one public page answers the question everyone is asking — instead of the same "are you down?" ticket arriving fifty times.
Trust and transparency
Owning up to incidents in public — and showing you fixed them fast — builds more trust than pretending nothing happened.
A reliability track record
An uptime history that prospects and customers can check for themselves is a quiet but powerful sales asset.
Calmer incidents
A single place to post updates keeps your team coordinated and your messaging consistent while you're firefighting.
How to set up a free status page in minutes
With Status Tiger the monitoring and the status page live in the same tool, so setup is quick:
- Create a free account Sign up at statustiger.com — no credit card. The free plan gives you 5 monitors and 1 status page.
- Add your monitors Paste the URL of each website, API, or endpoint you want watched. Status Tiger starts checking every 5 minutes on the free plan (as fast as 10 seconds on higher plans).
- Create your status page Add the services (components) you want to show — "Website", "API", "Dashboard" — and connect each to a monitor so its status updates automatically.
- Enable subscriber notifications Turn on email subscriptions so customers can opt in to hear about incidents and maintenance.
- Publish and share Go live on a free statustiger.com URL, or upgrade to Pro for your own
status.yourcompany.comcustom domain with automatic SSL.
What you get free — for real
- 5 uptime monitors (HTTP / HTTPS / TCP / Ping)
- 5-minute check intervals
- 1 public hosted status page
- 90-day history retention
- Email alerts & subscriber notifications
- No credit card, no time limit
Subscriber notifications: keeping customers in the loop
A status page is most valuable when people don't have to keep refreshing it. Status Tiger lets visitors subscribe so they're notified automatically:
- Email notifications — available on the free plan. Subscribers get an email the moment you open an incident, post an update, or schedule maintenance.
- Slack & Discord — added on paid plans, so your team's chat lights up alongside your customers' inboxes.
- Maintenance windows — schedule planned downtime in advance and subscribers are told before it happens, not after.
Growing beyond free (when you're ready)
The free tier is genuinely usable for a small project or a single product. When you need more, upgrades are straightforward and priced per plan:
- Custom domain — host at
status.yourcompany.comon the Pro plan ($59/mo), SSL handled for you. - More monitors & faster checks — Starter ($19/mo) adds 30 monitors and 3-minute checks; Pro reaches 75 monitors and 1-minute checks.
- Remove branding — drop the "powered by" mark starting on the Starter plan.
- Private / authenticated pages & team members — for internal status pages and larger teams on Business and above.
See the full breakdown on the pricing page.
Already comparing tools? If you're weighing Status Tiger against Atlassian Statuspage, Instatus, or Better Stack, read our honest, fact-checked Statuspage alternative comparison. The short version: many status page tools don't include monitoring — Status Tiger does.
Related free tools from the Tiger Network: quickly check one URL with checkstatus.app, confirm whether a site is down for everyone at is-it-down.app, and inspect headers, redirects, and response times with HTTP Tiger.