Create a Status Page for our Services

Problem to solve

A status page, to display the availability and maintenance status of all our public facing services would be quite beneficial. Users could inform themself about the current status before creating any ticket, when a service appears to be down.

Intended users

• Administrators:
  • get a quick glance about services status
  • inform users about
• Users:
  • get information about the service status
  • check availability and maintenance status, before creating a ticket

Proposal

There is a nice list of open-source status page software we can test out.

Tasks

• Check the list of status page software and identify potential candidates
• Test the potential candidates and pick one of them
• Create a plan to deploy the software on our server
• Integrate the system
• Write documentation