Vercel status page guide
Free status page for a Vercel app
If your app runs on Vercel, a hosted status page is the fastest way to answer “is it down?” without building an incident dashboard inside your product. The right free setup gives you a public URL, uptime checks, and a place to point users when a deploy, API route, or third-party dependency is having trouble.
What to publish
Give users one stable link before anything breaks.
A useful Vercel status page should not live inside the same app it monitors. If the app fails to render, your explanation should still be reachable. Start with one external monitor for your production URL, then publish the generated status page in your footer, docs, support replies, or onboarding emails. That link becomes the place where users can self-check before opening a ticket.
What to monitor
Check the route that proves the app is healthy.
For simple projects, monitoring the homepage is enough. For SaaS apps, add the route that depends on your database, auth, or core API once you upgrade beyond the free monitor. A status page is strongest when it reflects real customer impact: response code, response time, and recent incident history matter more than a pretty badge that never changes.
Why free works
One monitor can cover the highest-risk first impression.
Solo founders often postpone status pages because the full monitoring stack sounds expensive. You do not need that on day one. A free public status page for your Vercel app lets you cover the main customer-facing URL now, then add more monitors for API routes, background workers, and marketing pages later. The important part is publishing the trust signal before your first visible outage.