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  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started with monitoring
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
    4. Monitor types
  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started with on-call
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced on-call setup
  5. Incidents
    1. Working with incidents
    2. Create incidents manually
    3. Post mortems
    4. Incident silencing
    5. Incident metadata
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started with status pages
    2. Working with status pages
      1. Custom subdomain: status.yourdomain.com
      2. Adding a system status announcement
      3. Embeddable status badge
      4. Embedding announcements into your site
      5. Create a status report and a status update
      6. Get in touch URL
      7. Subscribing to status updates
      8. Custom domain for sending status page updates
      9. Password-protect a status page
      10. Delete a status page
  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
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    3. Audit logs
    4. Migrating to pay as you go
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    1. Get started with API
  10. Monitors API
    1. Monitors
    2. Monitor groups
    3. Heartbeats
    4. Heartbeat groups
  11. On-call & Incidents API
    1. On-call calendar
    2. On-call calendar events
    3. Escalation policies
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    5. Severities
    6. Severity groups
    7. Incidents
    8. Comments
  12. Integrations API
    1. New Relic Integrations
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    10. Slack Integrations
    11. Outgoing Webhook integrations
    12. Splunk On-Call integrations
    13. PagerDuty Integrations
  13. Status pages API
    1. Status pages
    2. Status page sections
    3. Status page resources
    4. Status page reports
    5. Status page report updates
  14. Other API
    1. Metadata

Adding a system status announcement

A system status announcement is a short message that appears at the top of your status page. It's a great way of sharing new updates with your audience.

Adding a system status announcement to your status page:

  • Go to Status pages.
  • Select the status page you want to add a status announcement to.
  • Go to Advanced settings.
  • Type your system status announcement into the text field.
  • Click Save changes.

Note: the announcement is removed once the text field is empty.

Want to display this update directly on your site? Explore how to embed an announcement and alert users about ongoing incidents in your product.

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