Include a link to the status monitor on the web app.
Consider adding a Django setting to toggle the display of this link.
Additional possibility: Use the Uptime Kuma API to dynamically change the display, for example to set an alerting color when an incident is reported, potentially displaying text about the incident fetched using the endpoint illustrated below:
$ curl https://monitor.ncsa.illinois.edu/api/status-page/blast | jq
{
"config": {
"slug": "blast",
"title": "Blast",
"description": "Automatic real-time characterization of transient host galaxies.\n\nVisit [https://blast.scimma.org](https://blast.scimma.org).",
"icon": "/upload/logo3.png?t=1713700431277",
"autoRefreshInterval": 300,
"theme": "auto",
"published": true,
...
"rssTitle": null
},
"incidents": [
{
"id": 18,
"style": "warning",
"title": "Upstream storage provider instability",
"content": "Jetstream2 is currently experiencing issues with storage which may lead to users seeing degraded performance and brief outages.",
"pin": true,
"active": true,
"createdDate": "2026-08-08 22:17:09",
"lastUpdatedDate": null,
"status_page_id": 3
},
{
"id": 17,
"style": "warning",
"title": "Service failures with astro catalogs",
"content": "Over the past few days, Blast has suffered from service failures from PanSTARRS, SDSS, and WISE catalogs. As of 2026/08/11, WISE, PanSTARRS and SDSS services appear to be working most of the time. Monitoring continues.",
"pin": true,
"active": true,
"createdDate": "2026-08-07 15:57:56",
"lastUpdatedDate": "2026-08-11 13:21:52",
"status_page_id": 3
}
...
Include a link to the status monitor on the web app.
Consider adding a Django setting to toggle the display of this link.
Additional possibility: Use the Uptime Kuma API to dynamically change the display, for example to set an alerting color when an incident is reported, potentially displaying text about the incident fetched using the endpoint illustrated below: