What is Statup?

"Is the internet down?" "Is it just me, or is Outlook broken?"

Every outage starts with the same questions, by phone, by chat and at the IT office door. Statup answers them before anyone asks.

It is a status page you host yourself. Whoever runs a service posts, once, what is broken, what is planned and what has changed. Everyone else reads it in plain words, from a desk or a phone, without an account. Monitoring tools are made for the people who fix things; Statup is made for everyone else.

What it is for

• An outage: the VPN is down. The whole company sees it, sees that IT is on it, and sees when it is back.
• Planned work: the accounting software upgrade is announced a week ahead, then starts and ends on its own on Saturday.
• News: a new version of the payroll software, the printer that moved to the second floor, the VPN client everyone must install.
• Beyond IT: a small business keeping its clients informed when its service is down.

Try the live demo, and sign in with demo@statup.dev / StatupDemo#1 to publish as an editor. It starts over every hour.

Features

• The answer first: a banner says what is wrong, what is affected and since when, above every service and its last 30 days.
• Runs on its own: a service follows the incident that names it, and planned work starts and ends at the times announced.
• Notices first: every minute, Statup checks that a site or a server answers, and shows an outage after three failed checks.
• Quick to publish: dated updates and reusable templates; an outage spotted by the checks is declared in one click.
• Tells people where they are: each incident, maintenance and announcement posted to Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, Discord or Mattermost, to phones through ntfy, by email, or to any tool through a webhook, in the language of each destination.
• Easy to follow: search and filters, a side panel to read without leaving the list, and an Atom feed for feed readers.
• Your page, your way: public or members only, your name and logo, blocks you arrange on the page; French, English, German and Spanish, light and dark, accessible.

Light, private, safe by default.

• Light: one Rust binary and one SQLite file, in a Docker image of about 11 MB. No Redis, no Postgres.
• Private: fonts and scripts come from your instance. The server only reaches the addresses you ask it to check or to notify, and GitHub once a day to look for a new version (UPDATE_CHECK=false turns that off).
• Safe: passwords hashed with Argon2id, a CSRF token on every form, a strict Content Security Policy on every page.

How it works

• Services are the tools people rely on: mail, the VPN, the ERP, the phones. Each shows one state: operational, degraded, outage or maintenance. Statup can also check on its own that a service answers.
• Events are what gets published. An incident when something breaks, a maintenance when work is planned, an announcement for news. An incident or a maintenance sets the state of the services it names until it ends.
• People read the page, with or without an account. Editors publish events and set service states; administrators also run the settings, the team and the layout of the page.

Quick start

You need Docker with Docker Compose 2.24 or newer.

1. Start Statup

mkdir statup && cd statup
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karl-cta/statup/main/docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d

Docker downloads the ready image, for x86-64 and ARM servers alike, and starts it in seconds.

2. Open it in your browser

At http://localhost:3000, or your server's address on port 3000, an empty instance walks you through four steps: your administrator account, the page's name, logo and audience, the services to follow, then the address to share.

3. Invite your team

Add them from the Team page: they open the same address. For HTTPS and a name of your own, such as status.example.com, put Statup behind a reverse proxy.

[!TIP] The self-hosting guide has the rest: every setting, a reverse proxy with nginx or Caddy, backups, upgrades and a forgotten password.

Roadmap

Planned, without dates:

• Incidents from your monitoring: Zabbix, Grafana or any other tool opens and closes an incident by itself.
• Email subscriptions: visitors sign up with their own address to get each update by email.
• Groups and visibility: gather colleagues into groups and choose which services and events each group sees.
• Recurring maintenance: announce once a slot that comes back every week or month.
• Themes and an accent colour.

Ideas and requests are welcome in the issues.

Status

Statup is pre-v1: usable and self-hostable, with the interface being finished before the first stable release. Expect changes between versions and back up before upgrading. Every change is in the changelog.

Statup is not related to Statping, a Go project first published under the name Statup.

Contributing

Built with Rust, Axum, SQLite, Askama templates and htmx. The contributing guide explains how to build Statup, where things are in the code, and the checks a change must pass.

License

Statup is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later. If you run a modified version for others over a network, offer them its source code.

It ships htmx, the Hanken Grotesk font, icons from Heroicons and the base styles of Tailwind CSS, under their own licenses: see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.