How we built Status Page

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GitLab has built a Status Page tool for communicating incident status and maintenance times. The tool allows for incident updates to be managed in a single place, balancing public communication with the need for controlled visibility. It supports displaying rich data from GitLab incident descriptions and comments. The backend converts incident issues to JSON via a background job, and the frontend is a stand-alone VueJS application hosted in cloud storage. This enables users to manage incident communications without tool switching and provides a controlled way to inform the public about incidents.