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StatusHub

This add-on is operated by Copper Cloud Inc

Bulletproof, hosted status pages for your web application or service.

StatusHub

Last Updated: 19 March 2014

The StatusHub add-on is currently in beta.

Table of Contents

StatusHub is an add-on which provides hosted status pages for web application or service.

Adding StatusHub to your app will create your custom status page for Heroku and give you ability to add custom services to it. StatusPage provided 5 basic color themes and ability to customize its styles.

StatusHub visitors can subscribe for updates for your status page. Notifications include email, sms, twitter, facebook, RSS and web hook.

Provisioning the add-on

StatusHub can be attached to a Heroku application via the CLI:

A list of all plans available can be found here.

$ heroku addons:add statushub
-----> Adding statushub to sharp-mountain-4005... done, v18 (free)

After installing StatusHub the application should be configured to fully integrate with the add-on.

When you first log into the StatusHub application, you will see a 5 steps form similar to the following one.

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The only required field is a subdomain which is automatically filled with your app name. Customize status page details or leave them empty and click “Create Status Page”.

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In a second step you can customize notification services and change email address for email notifications.

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In this step you define other website’s services. Here you can specify name for it and change way of notification.

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In this step you can customize status page look or leave default styles.

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Last step will create first status update for status page. Here you can specify its title, description, start time or availability. Clicking on “Create Status Update” will redirect you to newly created status page.

Dashboard

For more information on the features available within the StatusHub dashboard please see at StatusHub

The StatusHub dashboard allows you to manage your status pages. You may add status update to your status page. You can add new status pages from this place. Clicking on “Edit Page” allow you to customize your status page. You can change details, notifications details styes and add services.

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The dashboard can be accessed via the CLI:

$ heroku addons:open statushub
Opening statushub for sharp-mountain-4005…

or by visiting the Heroku apps web interface and selecting the application in question. Select StatusHub from the Add-ons menu.

Removing the add-on

StatusHub can be removed via the CLI.

This will destroy all associated data and cannot be undone!

$ heroku addons:remove statushub
-----> Removing statushub from sharp-mountain-4005... done, v20 (free)

Support

All StatusHub support and runtime issues should be submitted via on of the Heroku Support channels.