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Password-protected and private status pages

Not every status page should be public. An internal tools page or a page for one large customer can sit behind a password, or be visible only to your own team.

Updated 25 October 2026 · By the Upcertain team

Three kinds of visibility

VisibilityWho can see itSearch engines
PublicAnyone with the addressIndexed
PasswordAnyone who enters the passwordNot indexed
PrivateSigned-in members of your accountNot indexed

Set a password

  1. Open Status pages, choose the page and open its settings.
  2. Under General, choose Password as the visibility.
  3. Enter a password of at least 6 characters and save.
  4. Share the page address and the password with the people who need them.

Visitors see a password form instead of the page. After entering the right password once, their browser keeps access for 30 days. Changing the password signs out everyone who entered the old one, which is also how you revoke access.

Make a page private

Choose Private to show the page only to people signed in to your Upcertain account. Use it for an internal overview your support team checks during incidents, without handing out another password.

How it is protected

  • The password is stored as a hash, never in plain text.
  • Wrong guesses are limited to 5 a minute per address.
  • Protected and private pages tell search engines not to index them.
  • The access cookie is HttpOnly and sent only over HTTPS.

With a custom domain

Password protection works the same on a custom domain. A password page on status.yourcompany.com asks for the password there.

Questions

Can different customers have different passwords?
Each page has one password. Create one page per customer, each with its own monitors and password; Team and Business include unlimited pages.
Can I see who opened the page?
No. Upcertain does not track status page visitors.

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