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Component statuses reference

Every value a component status can hold, what each means, and the difference between component status and incident status.

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Component statuses reference

Each component on your status page has its own status — independent of any active incident. The status shows on the public page and in the dashboard’s “System Health” panel.

The five values

  • Operational — Green — Working normally. The expected state for almost every component, almost all the time.
  • Degraded — Yellow — Functional, but slower or less reliable than normal. Customers may notice, but the feature still works.
  • Partial outage — Orange — Working for some users or in some regions, but not all. Or: a sub-feature is down while the main feature is up.
  • Major outage — Red — Down or broken for most users. The component is effectively unusable.
  • Maintenance — Blue — Intentionally offline for planned work. Distinct from an unplanned outage — customers see this as scheduled, not as a failure.

How component status differs from incident status

These are two separate concepts:

  • Applies to — The incident as a whole — One named piece of your system
  • Lifecycle — Investigating → Identified → Monitoring → Resolved — Free-form — set by an admin at any time
  • Driven by — The composer when you post an update — Settings → Incidents Settings → Components (manual)
  • Public-page role — Shows where in the response you are — Shows whether each system piece is up

An incident is the narrative. Component statuses are the current snapshot. The two move independently — you can update a component to degraded without an incident, and you can have a resolved incident while some components are still in maintenance.

When to change a component status

Update a component’s status when its actual state changes:

  • Operational → Degraded — performance is measurably worse, but the feature still works
  • Operational → Major outage — the feature is unusable
  • Operational → Maintenance — you’re starting planned work that will take the component offline
  • Anything → Operational — the component is back to normal

Most teams change component status at the same moments they post incident updates — they’re two sides of the same operational beat.

Component status is sticky

Atender does not automatically reset components to operational when an incident is resolved. If you set a component to major_outage when creating an incident, you must manually flip it back to operational when the incident is resolved. Two reasons:

  1. The component might still be degraded even after the immediate incident is closed.
  2. Atender has no opinion about which incident’s resolution should reset which component.

A practical pattern: when you post the “Resolved” update on an incident, walk through Settings → Incidents Settings → Components and flip everything you previously set to a non-operational status back to operational.

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