How to group multiple third-party components into a single component

Question

We depend on several AWS components in several AWS regions, so it's not ideal for us to display all of our dependent AWS components in our status page since it would be such a huge list.

Furthermore, we don't want our competitors to have knowledge of which AWS components we use and which AWS regions we support.

Ideally we would like to be able to group several AWS components into a 5 grouped related components, but not display which components are in that group and also have them grouped into our existing components group for third-party dependencies.

Mona Singh_6xvofc · Answer

Hi Lucas,

Sure, you can try creating a script at your end where you can create a component and update the Status of the created component based on the Status of the third-party component.

For getting the status of the third-party component, you can leverage our Get a Component API Endpoint from which you can obtain the status of the component and update the created component accordingly.

https://share.getcloudapp.com/2Nub0md8

For more details, please refer to the API doc:
https://developer.statuspage.io/#operation/getPagesPageIdComponentsComponentId

Hope it answers your query :)

Thanks & Regards,
Mona

Lucas Amaral Lopes · Answer

Thank you @Mona Singh. Yes, that is how I needed it to work, so I'm guessing I'll have to create a component and some automation to automatically change the status according to the status from the AWS components I am interested in if I want that behavior.

I am wondering how do you get the status from the AWS services to update the third-party components? Do you use their API or is it something internal from your part?

Mona Singh_6xvofc · Answer

Hi Lucas,

Thanks for elaborating on the use case here. As I understand, you would like to create a Component that will display the overall uptime roll-up & status for a group of similar components, without letting the users know what the individual components are.

Here, the components could be separate shards or instances of a service, or even discrete service providers, but you want the end users to know about the overall experience based on the Status of the custom component created with the Group.

Just to let you know, this functionality is not feasible at the moment as per the current design. You can create a Component group and add multiple components but the status of each component will be displayed separately within the Group.

However, there is another Feature Request raised for a similar use case to our Product Team and it is been reviewed for Future Consideration.
Here's the Feature Request ticket id for your reference: STATUS-60

Also, as you rightly pointed out, "only_show_if_degraded" is only available via the API and you wouldn't be able to find this option in the Statuspage UI. Meanwhile, you can try it out as a workaround for your Statuspage.

Hope it answers your query :)

Thanks & Regards,
Mona