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How do I show a status badge on a client’s site?

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Short answer

Open the site or the status page in the app and choose Make a badge under Status badge. Copy the code you want and paste it into the client’s site or a README: an image, a text widget without a frame, or the facts as JSON. A badge shows the current status and the uptime over the last 90 days.

What a badge shows

  • The status of the latest check, in the words of the status page: operational, outage, regional issue, planned maintenance or data unavailable.
  • The uptime counted over the time that was measured. With nothing measured it says no data; it never shows a site as up for time nobody checked.
  • The site’s host name or the page’s title, and nothing else: no incidents, people or internal ids.

Good to know

  • The badge lives at an address nobody can guess, and anyone who has that address can see the status. Remove the badge makes the address stop working; a page that shows it may keep the last picture for up to about two minutes, because browsers and caches keep a badge for a minute. Making a new badge gives a new address.
  • The text widget is a small script that writes plain text where you put it. It loads nothing else and sends nothing.
  • A badge is refreshed about once a minute, so a busy page that shows it puts no load on its site.
  • A status page badge works while the page is published. Owners and admins make and remove badges; everyone else in the organisation sees them.
  • Badges are on every plan.

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Beamfar is in its soft launch: the 14-day trial is free and needs no card, and paid plans open soon; their prices may change before then. These answers describe what the app does today.