Setting Up a Status Page to Monitor Cloud Infrastructure

In the first article in this series in the March 2025 issue of Open Source For You, we explored Monitoror and Vigil, two excellent open source tools to help set up status pages for black box monitoring of IT infrastructure. We explore another open source tool, statpingng, in the second and final part of the series on black box monitoring.

- Ankur Kumar

Modern IT monitoring solutions are devised to make businesses proactive rather than reactive to service failures that can hurt them. Having an internal and/or external status page, which gives a quick overview to figure out what's failing where in a cloud environment, is a must-have tool for any modern IT team to avoid service failures. We explored two open source tools, Monitoror and Vigil, in the first article in this series carried in the March 2025 issue of OSFY.

Statping-ng

Last but not the least, here's a black box monitoring status page solution known as statping-ng that comes with many exciting features. Let's directly jump into running it to explore the vast array of functionalities it provides. Create statpingng_stack.yml in your current directory as shown below.

statpingng_stack.yml

services:

statping:

container_name: statpingng

image: adamboutcher/statping-ng:${SPNGTAG:-latest}

ports:

- 58080:8080 restart: unless-stopped

networks:

default:

name: statuspage-demo

external: true

Now execute the following command in the current directory to launch the statping-ng Docker container: