serverstatus

Serverstatus is the current operational state of a server or set of servers, reflected by a monitoring system that collects health signals and communicates availability to operators and end users. It encompasses the process of detecting failures, aggregating metrics, and presenting a single view of system health.

Monitoring systems deploy checks via agents or agentless methods, using pings, HTTP(S) endpoints, port checks, log analysis, and resource usage metrics (CPU, memory, disk, network). Checks run at configured intervals and can be continuous in production.

Statuses are typically expressed as discrete levels such as operational, degraded performance, partial outage, and outage, sometimes with a maintenance state. Some implementations use color codes and timestamps.

Outputs include public or private status pages, real-time dashboards, REST or GraphQL APIs, and webhook notifications for incidents. Data may be stored in time-series databases and presented with incident timelines and historical trends.

Common architectures combine agents, a central data collector, and a frontend dashboard. Alerting integrations with on-call schedules and incident management tools help coordinate response.

Applications span cloud services, websites, game servers, and enterprise IT. The practice supports service-level objectives and uptime analytics.

Challenges include false positives, monitoring blind spots, network partitions, and scaling to large numbers of services, as well as privacy and data retention concerns.