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Free status page badge generator
Drop a live-updating SVG status badge in your README, landing page, or docs. Markdown, HTML, or bare image URL. Pick the format, copy, paste.
Badge auto-updates whenever your page status changes. No re-embed needed.
[](https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/s/statuspagebuddy)<a href="https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/s/statuspagebuddy"><img src="https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/api/badge/statuspagebuddy" alt="Status"></a>https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/api/badge/statuspagebuddyHow it works
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Sign up free. The free tier gives you 1 status page, 5 components, and unlimited incidents. No credit card.
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Add your components. API, database, web app, whatever your readers care about. Pick a public slug for your page.
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Paste your slug above and copy the Markdown or HTML. The badge auto-updates every time your status changes. No re-embed, no manual sync, no static lie.
Why bother with a status badge
The status badge is the cheapest piece of trust you can put on a SaaS landing page. A visitor who sees a green badge in your footer knows two things instantly: you have a status page, and right now nothing is on fire. A visitor who sees a yellow or red badge knows you are not hiding it from them. Both are better than the third option, which is no signal at all.
For indie founders shipping in public, the README badge is also the cheapest piece of distribution. Every GitHub stargazer, every developer who lands on your repo, sees the badge and follows the link. The page they land on is yours, with your branding and your incident history. That is how Upptime grew to 17K stars without paid marketing, and the same loop is available to you with one paste.
Common questions
Does the badge update in real time?
Yes. The badge SVG is generated on every request from the live state of your StatusPageBuddy page. When you mark a component as degraded or open an incident, the badge color and label change within seconds. Cached for 5 seconds at the edge so high-traffic embeds stay fast.
Do I need to sign up to preview a badge?
No. The preview above is fully interactive and uses our own status page slug by default. To get a badge that reflects your own service, sign up for the free tier (1 page, 5 components, unlimited incidents) and paste your slug.
Where can I embed the badge?
Anywhere that renders an image. GitHub README files, landing pages, product docs, dashboard footers, internal wikis, even email signatures. The Markdown snippet works in any Markdown-rendered surface; the HTML snippet works in landing pages and docs sites; the bare URL works as the source for img tags in any framework.
What do the colors mean?
Green = all systems operational, yellow = degraded performance, orange = partial outage, red = major outage, blue = under maintenance. The status reflects the worst component on your page, matching what visitors see on your public status page.
How is this different from a static "uptime: 100%" badge?
A static badge lies the moment something breaks. This badge is the truth at the moment your visitor loads the page. Combined with an honest incident timeline at your status URL, it builds the kind of trust that a hand-edited number cannot.
Sign up free, set up your page in under 5 minutes, and embed the badge anywhere you want visitors to trust you.