---
title: Status badges
description: Embed a live uptime badge on your own site.
category: advanced
updated: 2026-10-12
tags: [badge, embed, status, uptime]
---

A status badge is a small live image showing a monitor's recent uptime percentage —
drop it on your website, a README, or an internal wiki so people can see how a
service is doing without logging in. Badges are available on **Pro, Business and MSP**.

![The Uptime Badge section of a monitor, with the badge switched on, a live preview reading uptime 99.98 percent, the ready-to-paste HTML snippet, and buttons to copy it as HTML or Markdown or regenerate the link](/img/docs/app-uptime-badge.png)
*Turn the badge on and copy the snippet. **Regenerate** issues a new link and
immediately breaks the old one — useful if a badge URL ends up somewhere public
you didn't intend.*

## What it shows

The badge reads `uptime` and a percentage, worked out from the monitor's last 100
checks. Checks that fell inside a maintenance window are left out, so planned work
doesn't dent the number. The colour follows the figure: green at 99% or above, amber
from 95%, red below that. A monitor with no checks yet reads `no data`.

It's a lightweight, read-only view: it never exposes your account, the monitor's
name, or its configuration. The image is cached for five minutes, so a status change
shows up within about that long rather than instantly.

## Adding a badge

Open a monitor, find its **status badge**, and copy the snippet into your page.
That's all — the badge stays current on its own.

## Good to know

- Badges suit public status displays and project READMEs.
- For a fuller picture — response times, history, uptime percentages — send people to
  your [dashboard](/docs/getting-started/dashboard) instead.

## Get started
- [Create a monitor to badge](/docs/getting-started/quickstart)

## Related
- [Your dashboard](/docs/getting-started/dashboard)
- [Analytics & reports](/docs/advanced/analytics-and-reports)