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How do I migrate from Atlassian Statuspage?

Switch from Atlassian Statuspage to UpCanary and get automated status updates with built-in monitoring.

Atlassian Statuspage is a well-known tool, but it has a fundamental limitation: it does not monitor your services. Every status update requires a human to log in and manually change component statuses. UpCanary solves this by coupling monitoring and status pages together - when a monitor detects downtime, your status page updates automatically.

Why Migrate

StatuspageUpCanary
Manual status updatesAutomatic updates from live monitors
No built-in monitoring - requires separate toolsMonitoring included
Status often lags real incidents by 10–20 minutesStatus reflects reality immediately
Per-seat pricing adds up as teams growCredit-based pricing scales with usage, not headcount
Separate tools to integrate and maintainSingle platform for monitoring and status pages

The most common complaint about Statuspage is that it is always “All Systems Operational” until someone remembers to log in and update it. UpCanary eliminates that gap.

Step 1: Inventory Your Statuspage Components

Before switching, list every component on your current Statuspage. For each one, note:

  • The component name (what customers see)
  • What underlying service it represents (your API, web app, database, etc.)
  • Whether it has any meaningful uptime history you want to preserve

This inventory becomes your list of monitors to create in UpCanary.

Step 2: Create Monitors in UpCanary

For each component in your inventory, create a corresponding monitor in UpCanary. Sign in to app.upcanary.io and click New Monitor.

Common mappings:

Statuspage componentUpCanary monitor type
API / Web serviceHTTP / HTTPS - health endpoint
Website / DashboardHTTP / HTTPS - homepage or /health
AuthenticationHTTP / HTTPS - auth endpoint
Third-party dependency (e.g., payment processor)Subscribe via Service Dependencies

Give each monitor a clear internal name. You will assign user-facing names on the status page in the next step.

Step 3: Create Your Status Page

  1. Go to Status Pages > New Status Page in UpCanary.
  2. Set the name and slug. If your Statuspage URL was yourcompany.statuspage.io, consider a slug like yourcompany to keep URLs similar.
  3. Set visibility to Public.
  4. Add each monitor as a component, using the same display names your customers recognize from your Statuspage. Keeping names consistent reduces confusion during the transition.
  5. Organize components into groups if you have more than 5–6 items.
  6. Publish the page.

Step 4: Map Components and Verify

With your new status page live, verify it reflects your actual service health:

  • Confirm each component shows the correct current status
  • Check that the uptime history bars are populating as checks run
  • Test the failure behavior by temporarily pausing a monitor and confirming the status page updates

Allow the monitors to run for a day or two before directing customers to the new page - this builds up some uptime history and gives you confidence the automation is working correctly.

Key Differences to Know

No manual status toggling. UpCanary does not have a way to manually set a component to “degraded” for scheduled maintenance notices in the same way Statuspage does. Status reflects live monitor state. Incident posts can be used to communicate planned maintenance or context around an outage.

Automated updates are not always instant. Status updates reflect the check interval you configured. A 1-minute interval means the page updates within 1 minute of an incident starting. For most use cases this is faster than a human would notice and respond anyway.

Credits cover monitoring costs. Unlike Statuspage (which charges separately for monitoring integrations), UpCanary’s credit system covers all your checks. Starter and Pro plans include a monthly credit allocation.

What to Tell Your Users

Once you are confident in the new setup:

  1. Post a notice on your old Statuspage pointing users to the new URL.
  2. Update any “System Status” links on your website, help docs, and app.
  3. Update your support team’s resources and incident runbooks with the new URL.

If you are on the Pro plan, custom domains (coming soon) will let you keep status.yourcompany.com as the canonical URL, making the underlying platform invisible to your users.