Migrate from Instatus

Move your status page, uptime monitors, incident history, and subscribers from Instatus to ShipPulse — and get testimonials, changelog, and feedback boards included.

Step 1: Export from Instatus

ShipPulse has a built-in importer for Instatus data:

1. In Instatus, go to Settings → Export → download your data as JSON.
2. In your ShipPulse project, go to Status → Import from Instatus.
3. Upload the JSON file — monitors, incidents, and maintenance windows are imported.

Alternatively, use the Instatus API to export data and our API to re-create records manually.

Step 2: Re-create monitors

If you prefer the API approach, create monitors for each of your services. ShipPulse checks HTTP endpoints every 60 seconds:

curl -X POST https://shippulse.dev/api/v1/monitors \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "API",
    "url": "https://api.yourapp.com/health",
    "method": "GET",
    "check_interval": 60
  }'

Step 3: Import incident history

For each past incident in Instatus, create a corresponding entry in ShipPulse:

curl -X POST https://shippulse.dev/api/v1/incidents \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "title": "API degraded performance",
    "status": "resolved",
    "impact": "minor",
    "body": "We experienced elevated error rates..."
  }'

Step 4: Transfer subscribers

1. Export subscribers from Instatus (Settings → Subscribers → Export CSV).
2. Import them via the ShipPulse API — each subscriber can opt in to status updates, changelog emails, or both:

curl -X POST https://shippulse.dev/api/v1/subscribers \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "[email protected]", "topics": ["status"]}'

Step 5: Update your status page URL

1. ShipPulse hosts your status page at https://status.shippulse.dev/your-slug by default.
2. To keep your existing URL (e.g., status.yourapp.com), add a custom domain in ShipPulse → Settings → Domains (Pro plan).
3. Add a CNAME record pointing to ShipPulse and verify ownership.
4. Update your website, README, and any external links to point to the new status page URL.

Step 6: Replace the status widget

ShipPulse provides a lightweight embeddable status bar and badge:

<!-- Status bar (shows current system status): -->
<script src="https://cdn.shippulse.dev/widget.js"
        data-project="YOUR_PROJECT_TOKEN"
        data-widget="status-bar">
</script>

<!-- Status badge (icon + uptime %): -->
<script src="https://cdn.shippulse.dev/widget.js"
        data-project="YOUR_PROJECT_TOKEN"
        data-widget="status-badge">
</script>

What you gain by switching

• Changelog — publish release notes with email notifications and a public changelog page
• Testimonials — collect and display social proof (replaces a separate tool)
• Feedback board — public feature requests and roadmap
• AI incident summaries — auto-draft incident updates from monitoring data
• All under one subscription vs Instatus' $20–$300/mo plans