Public Status Badges for Any Endpoint

Published February 2026 by Site Informant Team

We’re excited to announce a new feature in Site Informant: Public Status Badges.

If you’ve ever wanted a clean uptime badge like you see on GitHub repositories, product documentation pages, or internal dashboards — but for any endpoint — this is for you.

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What Are Status Badges?

Status badges are small, embeddable indicators that show whether a service is currently up. Developers often include them in:

• README files
• Documentation pages
• Internal tools
• Support portals
• Status pages

The problem is most badges only work for large hosted services. They don’t work for your private APIs, staging endpoints, client projects, or custom infrastructure.

What Site Informant Now Provides

Site Informant now generates a public badge URL for any monitored endpoint. The badge is:

• SVG (crisp at any size)
• script-free (safe for docs and markdown)
• cache-friendly (fast to load)
• stable (simple URL format)

How It Works

When you enable public status for a site, Site Informant publishes a status endpoint that returns structured uptime data.

The badge URL renders a simplified status indicator using the same underlying data — so the badge is always consistent with the real status API.

Use Cases

• Show uptime confidence directly in your documentation
• Embed a status badge in GitHub README files for internal tools
• Provide status visibility to clients without exposing your dashboard
• Improve operational transparency without building a custom status page

Security Matters

Status badges only work for endpoints where you explicitly enable public status.

This is opt-in, and the badge data is a simplified view of the public status endpoint.

That keeps the system honest and predictable.

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