How-to Guides
Our how-to guides solve specific problems with step-by-step instructions, walk you through advanced features and integrations, and show you how to customise and extend your openstatus setup.
Monitoring and integration
- Monitor your MCP server — set up monitoring for Model Context Protocol servers.
- Export metrics to an OTLP endpoint — send monitoring data to your observability platform.
- Run synthetic tests in GitHub Actions — automate testing in your CI/CD pipeline.
Status pages and widgets
- Add an SVG status badge to a GitHub README — display real-time status in your repository.
- Use the React status widget — embed live status updates in your React application.
- Embed a status page in an iframe — drop a chromeless status page into any site.
- Deploy a status page on Cloudflare Pages — host your status page on Cloudflare's edge network.
Infrastructure and deployment
- Create a private location — run a monitoring probe on your own infrastructure.
- Deploy a private probe on Cloudflare Containers — serverless deployment for private probes.
- Self-host openstatus — deploy openstatus on your own servers.
- Self-host the status page only — deploy just the status page without monitoring.
Related sections
- Tutorials — for step-by-step learning instead.
- Explanations — to understand the concepts behind these guides.
- Reference — for detailed technical specifications.