> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.statusstack.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Welcome to StatusStack - Comprehensive status monitoring and management for modern teams

## Welcome to StatusStack

StatusStack is a powerful status monitoring and management platform built for MSPs, SaaS companies, and DevOps teams. Organize your services into **Stacks**, monitor 5,200+ sources, track component status in real-time, and manage everything through an intuitive customer dashboard with multi-channel notifications.

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  <Card title="Stack-Based Organization" icon="layer-group" href="/guides/customer-dashboard">
    Group related services into Stacks for logical monitoring and management
  </Card>

  <Card title="Multi-Source Monitoring" icon="chart-line" href="/concepts/sources">
    Monitor 5,200+ sources plus custom sources for internal services
  </Card>

  <Card title="Custom Website Monitoring" icon="globe" href="/guides/custom-monitoring">
    Monitor your own websites and APIs with configurable health checks
  </Card>

  <Card title="Smart Notifications" icon="bell" href="/concepts/notifications">
    Multi-channel notifications with enriched incident context
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What can you build?

With StatusStack, you can:

* **Organized Monitoring**: Create Stacks to group production, staging, and development services logically
* **Status Dashboards**: Build custom status dashboards with real-time component health across all your Stacks
* **Custom Sources**: Monitor internal services and unlisted status page providers with private custom sources
* **Early Incident Detection**: Get alerted to outages via crowdsourced reports before official status pages update
* **MSP Client Portals**: Provide branded status pages with dedicated Stacks for each client
* **Incident Response**: Automate incident detection and response workflows across your service Stacks
* **Notification Systems**: Create intelligent multi-channel alerting with enriched incident context
* **Scheduled Reports**: Automate recurring uptime, incident, and usage reports delivered to your team
* **Embeddable Widgets**: Embed live status widgets showing your Stack health on any website

## Platform Features

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  <Accordion title="Stack-Based Organization">
    Group related services into Stacks for logical monitoring and management. Perfect for organizing by environment, client, or service type.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Multi-Source Monitoring">
    Monitor 5,200+ sources including AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, Stripe, and more — plus create custom sources for internal services and unlisted providers.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Custom Website Monitoring">
    Add your own websites and APIs with configurable health checks, SSL monitoring, and customizable alert thresholds.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Crowdsourced Incident Detection">
    Detect service issues through community reports before official status pages update, with confidence scoring and early warning notifications.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Real-time Updates">
    Get sub-minute status updates for all monitored services and components with automatic refresh.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Multi-Channel Notifications">
    Receive alerts via Discord, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Email, SMS (Twilio), and custom webhooks — with enriched incident context in status emails.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Scheduled Reports">
    Automate daily, weekly, or monthly email reports for uptime, incidents, and usage metrics delivered to your team and stakeholders.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="MSP Features">
    Manage multiple clients with branded status portals, client-specific Stacks, and flexible billing based on client count.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Get Started

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create Your Account">
    [Sign up for StatusStack](https://statusstack.com/register) and access your customer dashboard.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create Your First Stack">
    Use our [quickstart guide](/quickstart) to create your first Stack and add services to monitor.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Configure Notifications">
    Set up notification rules to alert your team when service status changes.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Explore Advanced Features">
    Learn about [MSP features](/guides/msp-setup) for managing multiple clients.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Need Help?

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  <Card title="Support" icon="headset" href="mailto:support@statusstack.com">
    Get help from our support team
  </Card>

  <Card title="Community" icon="users" href="https://statusstack.com/community">
    Join our developer community
  </Card>
</CardGroup>