Status badges: show you’re up, wherever people look
Your status page is great during an incident. The rest of the time, a small live badge in your footer, docs or README tells people everything’s fine, links to the full page, and costs you nothing to maintain.
A status badge is a small embeddable image that shows the live status or uptime of a service, typically placed in a website footer, documentation or a GitHub README and linked to the full status page.
Where badges earn their place
| Place | Why it helps | Website footer | Help centre and docs | GitHub README | Internal wiki / dashboards | Client reports (agencies) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visitors and prospects see you publish your status, which reads as confidence | ||||||
| Support readers check status before opening a ticket | ||||||
| Open-source users and API consumers see the hosted service is up | ||||||
| Staff get a glanceable view without logging in | ||||||
| Show uptime without screenshots |
How StatusEagle badges will work
[](https://status.example.com)BADGE_URL is issued per badge in the dashboard.
<!-- HTML --> <a href="https://status.example.com"><img src="BADGE_URL" alt="Service status" height="20"></a> <!-- Markdown --> [](https://status.example.com)
Build your own badge today with the API
Until hosted badges ship, the REST API already gives you what a badge needs. GET /monitors/overview returns counts by status and overall uptime, which you can render into your own widget or cache as an image:
curl https://api.statuseagle.com/v1/monitors/overview \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $STATUSEAGLE_API_KEY"Call it server-side and cache the result; never put your API key in browser code.
curl https://api.statuseagle.com/v1/monitors/overview \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $STATUSEAGLE_API_KEY"
Badge etiquette
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A small live image showing a service’s status or uptime, usually linked to a status page.
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