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# Introduction
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Netlify StatusKit is a template to deploy your own Status pages on Netlify.
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[](https://statuskit.netlify.com/)
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Netlify StatusKit is released under the [MIT License](LICENSE).
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Please make sure you understand its [implications and guarantees](https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-by-Line.html).
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[](https://app.netlify.com/start/deploy?repository=https://github.com/netlify/netlify-statuskit)
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## Initial configuration
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Click in the Deploy to Netlify button above to create your own site directly and push this repository to your own account.
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Before creating the site, Netlify will ask you to fill required environment variables listed here:
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- `STATUSKIT_PAGE_TITLE` - Title to show in the browser for your status site.
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- `STATUSKIT_COMPANY_LOGO` - URL to your company's logo.
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- `STATUSKIT_SUPPORT_CONTACT_LINK` - URL to a support page for your users to talk with you.
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- `STATUSKIT_RESOURCES_LINK` - URL to documentation for your users.
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## Extra configuration
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After the site is created, you can modify the code as much as you want and push it to your GitHub repository. Netlify will pick up changes from there.
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### Reporting systems
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You can add systems you want to report about to your Status page. For instance, you might want to tell your users about a status change in your CDN infrastructure but not in your API.
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Go to `site/config.toml` and change the global `systems` variables. Once that's done, you'll be able to change the status of each one of those systems individually when you open or modify an incident.
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### Full customization
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This template is based in [Netlify's Victor-Hugo](https://github.com/netlify/victor-hugo) boilerplate.
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To work on it you'll need NPM installed. To download dependencies type `npm run dependencies`, that will check if you have Hugo installed and will download it for you if you don't. It will also run `npm install` for the first time to download extra dependencies. After that, you can run `npm install` every time you want to install packages.
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## Managing incidents
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Incidents are plain markdown files inside the `site/content/incidents` directory.
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### Creating new incidents
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Adding incidents to your status page is as simple as adding a new document to the incidents collection.
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Create a new incident using Hugo with a command like this:
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```
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hugo -s site new -k incidents incidents/oh-no-something-went-wrong.md
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```
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Hugo will create a new Markdown file for you with title and date based on the file name and a few predefined settings in the header. To learn more about the different severities and report, you can see more detailed examples in `site/archetypes/incidents.md`.
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After explaining the current situation in the incident, you can just push the file to GitHub. Netlify will deploy the indicent announcement for you in a matter of seconds.
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### Resolving incidents
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Everything will be operational again when all incidents are marked with `resolved = true` in the incident frontMatter:
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```toml
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affectedsystems = ["API"]
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resolved = true
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```
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### Tracking activity
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When there is an update in your incident you can track activity by inserting a timestamp with the update. For example:
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```md
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**Update**: We've identified the issue. {{< track "2016-11-22T14:34:00.000Z" >}}
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```
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# Development
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Netlify StatusKit uses NPM to manage dependencies. It also bundles a version of Hugo to work out of the box.
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1. Use `npm install` to download dependencies.
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2. Use `npm start` to start the development server.
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