What does the integration offer?

Statuspage lets service providers add a component for each separate infrastructure or functional part of their service. Compass has a powerful two-way integration with Statuspage. The integration is used as follows:

  1. Statuspage sends webhook notifications on incident updates. With Statuspage Integration, every new incident creates an alert in Compass, and every update of the incident gets added as a Note to the existing alert. Compass acts as a dispatcher for these alerts, determines the right people to notify based on on-call schedules, notifies via email, text messages (SMS), phone calls, and iOS and Android push notifications, and escalates alerts until the alert is acknowledged or closed.

  2. Compass creates an incident in Statuspage if a Compass action is mapped to a create an incident or create incident and update the components'/incident's statuses according to tags Statuspage action.

  3. Compass resolves incidents in Statuspage if a Compass action is mapped to a resolve the incident or resolve the incident and update the components' statuses according to tags Statuspage action. Compass updates the incident in Statuspage if a Compass action is mapped to an add note to the incident Statuspage action.

How does the integration work?

Set up the integration

Statuspage is a bidierctional integration. Setting it up involves the following steps:

Add a Statuspage integration

In this release, only incoming integrations are fully supported in the Standard plan, at a team level. To use outgoing integrations or the outgoing part of bidirectional integrations, upgrade to a higher subscription plan. There may be restrictions on how you can create and apply integration rules as well.

You can add this integration only from your team’s operations page. Adding an integration from your team’s operations page makes your team the owner of the integration. This means Compass only assigns the alerts received through this integration to your team.

To add a Statuspage integration in Compass, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to your team’s operations page.

  2. On the left navigation panel, select Integrations and then Add integration.

  3. Run a search and select “Statuspage”.

  4. On the next screen, enter a name for the integration.

  5. Optional: Select a team in Assignee team if you want a specific team to receive alerts from the integration.

  6. Select Continue.
    The integration is saved at this point.

  7. Expand the Steps to configure the integration section and copy the API URL.
    You will use this key while configuring the integration in Statuspage later.

  8. Select Turn on integration.
    The rules you create for the integration will work only if you turn on the integration.

Configure the integration in Statuspage

To configure the integration of Statuspage with Compass, complete the following steps:

  1. In the Subscribers interface, select Options > Settings.

  2. On the Subscriber Notification Settings modal, select “Webhook” for Delivery types.

  3. Select Save Changes.

  4. Go to your status page and select Subscribe To Updates.

  5. Select webhook tab from the subscription dropdown.

  6. Paste the URL copied previously into URL.

  7. Enter your email address to receive emails when the API endpoint fails.

  8. Select Subscribe To Notifications.

Configure the integration to update Statuspage

To configure the integration to update Statuspage back, complete the following steps:

  1. Select your avatar in the bottom left of your Statuspage screen.

  2. Select API info from the menu.

  3. Copy the page ID for the page you want the integration to work for.

  4. Navigate back to Compass and go to the Statuspage integration page.

  5. Select Send Alert Updates Back to Statuspage or Create Statuspage Incidents for Compass Alerts checkbox as needed.

  6. Paste the page ID into Statuspage Page Id field.

  7. Paste the API key copied previously into Statuspage API Key.

  8. Control what type of alerts is sent to Statuspage by using the Alert Filter.

  9. Save the integration.

Compass attempts to verify the settings with Statuspage upon saving.

Map alert actions

Compass allows you to define action mappings between Compass actions and StatusPage actions.

For alerts created by Statuspage

For other Compass alerts

Changing component/incident statuses via alert tags

Change the statuses of the components/incident in Statuspage by adding specially formatted tags to the alert.

You can add tags while creating the alert or after. If a Compass action is mapped to create an incident and update the components'/incident's statuses according to tags Statuspage action, when an alert with specially formatted tags is created in Compass, an incident is created in Statuspage and the statuses of the components and the incident are changed according to the specially formatted tags. Or if a tag is added to the alert action is mapped to update the components'/incident's statuses according to added tags Statuspage action, when a specially formatted tag is added to the alert in Compass, the statuses of the components/incident is changed according to the added tags.

Allowed component statuses

Allowed incident statuses

Examples

Sample payload sent from Statuspage

JSON

{
  "meta":
  {
    "unsubscribe": "https://jsmtest.statuspage.io/?unsubscribe=8rx45n6txwh3",
    "documentation": "http://doers.statuspage.io/customer-notifications/webhooks/"
  },
  "page":
  {
    "id": "1k9dvd5q1qlv",
    "status_indicator": "none",
    "status_description": "All Systems Operational"
  },
  "incident":
  {
    "name": "incident1",
    "status": "investigating",
    "created_at": "2015-10-08T13:13:53.303Z",
    "updated_at": "2015-10-08T13:13:53.558Z",
    "monitoring_at": null,
    "resolved_at": null,
    "impact": "none",
    "shortlink": "http://stspg.io/1Z1G",
    "postmortem_ignored": false,
    "postmortem_body": null,
    "postmortem_body_last_updated_at": null,
    "postmortem_published_at": null,
    "postmortem_notified_subscribers": false,
    "postmortem_notified_twitter": false,
    "backfilled": false,
    "scheduled_for": null,
    "scheduled_until": null,
    "scheduled_remind_prior": false,
    "scheduled_reminded_at": null,
    "impact_override": null,
    "scheduled_auto_in_progress": false,
    "scheduled_auto_completed": false,
    "id": "hk801ps7x9x4",
    "page_id": "1k9dvd5q1qlv",
    "incident_updates":
    [
      {
        "status": "investigating",
        "body": "this is a test incident",
        "created_at": "2015-10-08T13:13:53.556Z",
        "wants_twitter_update": false,
        "twitter_updated_at": null,
        "updated_at": "2015-10-08T13:13:53.556Z",
        "display_at": "2015-10-08T13:13:53.556Z",
        "id": "7m0y35xlqh8j",
        "incident_id": "hk801ps7x9x4"
      }
    ]
  }
}