How to write a good status update
This is a guest post from Baron Schwartz, Founder and CEO at VividCortex. I’ve seen my share of terrible status updates. As Founder and CEO of a SaaS platform for database performance management, VividCortex, I know the power of a great status update to build or destroy trust. Unfortunately, I see more bad status updates […]
We read 100 data breach notifications to make this guide (which we hope you’ll never need)
Nothing fills out the “worst-case scenario” column quite like a data breach. For the countless teams out there who work hard to protect their customers’ data, the idea of compromising that trust is a nightmare. Data breaches are on a lot of minds lately with the 2017 Equifax data breach, which exposed personal data from […]
Why smart sales and marketing teams celebrate uptime
Past performance is not indicative of future results. You’ve probably heard this phrase. It’s a slice of legal disclaimer jargon that wiggled it’s way into our culture. Anyone who’s heard a bank commercial knows it. It’s gone from tiny lawyer print to bona fide figure of speech. It’s good advice, though. And it’s advice people […]
A guide to introducing Statuspage to your customers (with a template)
People need to know where to go or what to look for in case problems arise. In the physical world, things like first aid kits and fire exits give us a sense of assurance that somebody was paying attention and dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s. So why should an app or website be […]
Statuspage tips & tricks: Monitor Statuspage traffic with Google Analytics
It’s easy to wonder if anyone knows your status page is even out there. When things are going well, the page you use for posting incident communication is obviously pretty quiet.[cta] You might wonder, are people aware of my page? Do people on my team check it? Are any of my customers actually getting any […]
Build a modern operations process with Statuspage
This is a guest post from Glen Semino, Customer Success Manager at SYNQ.fm When I first started working at SYNQ, where we provide APIs that allow software developers to easily incorporate video in their web or mobile applications, one of my first tasks was to find a simple and practical way to communicate the health […]
We filed 100 support tickets to find out how to send better customer service email auto-replies
Customer service emails have a way of being pretty terrible. As a company, if you don’t make a solid effort to build good systems around your email customer service, it’s going to be a drag. It got us thinking about how we do email support here at Statuspage. We’ve noticed a lot of great companies […]
Tell the other 99.95% of your story with Statuspage Uptime Showcase
We’re always singing the praises of downtime communication. Customers deserve transparency and clear information, especially when things aren’t running as expected. But reporting downtime can sting. It’s easy for people to use your updates to draw negative conclusions about your service, or even your entire business, if they only hear from you when things break. […]
Incident communication best practices
Incidents have always been a fact of life for people in IT and Ops. Today, it’s web developers, cloud service providers, and DevOps practitioners that are getting a crash course in incident communication.[cta] Web scale incident communication is more complex than simply sending a bulk email. There are different audiences to consider. Different thresholds for […]
A bird’s eye view of the Amazon S3 outage
If there ever was a day it felt like the entire internet ground to a halt, it was Feb. 28. [cta]Amazon’s S3 storage service went down in its US-EAST-1 Region for the better part of 4 hours, causing a lot of prominent web sites and services to not function. For a service that powers a […]