The LiveStatus blog
Deep dives on status pages, incident response, and the engineering behind LiveStatus. Written by Andrew and the team.
Why we built a mobile app for status pages
Email alerts go to spam. People check their phones. Here's why LiveStatus ships a native mobile app and why no one else does.
Migrating from Statuspage.io in 30 seconds
A walkthrough of the LiveStatus import flow. Paste your Statuspage export, keep your services, incidents, and subscribers. Done before your coffee cools.
Building with MCP: plugging LiveStatus into Claude Desktop
How we built an MCP server for LiveStatus so you can manage your status page from Claude Desktop. What MCP actually is, the tools we expose, and the honest limits of the beta.
What 500 errors teach you about incident communication
Silence is the worst outage response. Here's the 5-minute rule, the severity vs impact split, and how to write updates that don't read like a legal document.
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