# Feature Tutorial: Status Pages

Centralizes incident updates across Internal, External, and Private Status Pages, each scoped to a different audience of stakeholders.

Status Pages provide a single source of truth for not only your internal teams, but also your external users and customers during an incident.

PagerDuty's Status Pages are a centralized location for your responders to post updates on the current conditions of a live incident. Our Status Pages are split into three functions by audience type:

* **Internal Status Pages** are for your internal users only, helpful for providing more in-depth and proprietary information for your stakeholders.
* **External Status Pages** allow you to update your users and customers during an incident.
* A **Private Status Page** provides updates to authorized users only, ensuring that private data stays private while also keeping key stakeholders informed. These pages can be used for communicating with a mix of internal and external users.

Update your status pages directly from PagerDuty using pre-programmed templates, so your message is always correct. Easy updates mean your responders and liasons aren't spending time searching for where to publish and who to inform. 

Need some best practices for incident communications? Check out [Kat's talk from DevOps Barcelona](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XnyrcRhVQ0) for tips.

Your users expect regular updates during incidents. Make it easy to do!

## Learn More

**Read more about what Status Pages provide**

* [In our product pages](https://www.pagerduty.com/platform/business-ops/status-pages/)
* [In our knowledge base](/incident-management/communicate/status-pages-overview)

**Watch the product webinars**

* [Private Status Pages - The Proactive Communication Your Teams Need](https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/incident-management-response/webinar/private-status-pages-the-proactive-communication/)
* [PagerDuty Status Pages: The Single Source of Truth You and Your Customers Need](https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/announcements/webinar/pagerduty-status-pages-the-single-source-of-truth/)
* [External Status Pages on the HowTo Happy Hour with Jacky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKpnvvxqFOo)
* [Create Status Update Templates](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggD_u-NiDc)

**Check out the training modules on PDU**

* [External Status Pages](https://university.pagerduty.com/external-status-pages)
* [Stakeholder Communications](https://university.pagerduty.com/stakeholder-communications)

**Watch the click-through tutorial**

* [Internal Status Pages](https://youtu.be/yl8A_zcbMCI)
* [External Status Pages](https://youtu.be/sthXDc2XWVM)
* [Status Update Templates](https://youtu.be/CplWKsc37TY)

**Find the product documentation in our Knowledge Base**

* [Status Pages Overview](/incident-management/communicate/status-pages-overview)
* [Internal Status Pages](/incident-management/communicate/internal-status-page)
* [External Status Pages](/incident-management/communicate/external-status-page)
* [Private Status Page](/incident-management/communicate/external-status-page/private-status-page)

**Using the API?**

Status Pages have several [endpoints](/developer/api/reference/rest/tags/create-entity-type-by-id-change-tags). Here are some common ones:

* [Create a Status Page Post](/developer/api/reference/rest/status-pages/create-status-page-post)
* [Update a Status Page Post](/developer/api/reference/rest/status-pages/update-status-page-post)
* [Update or Create a Post Postmortem](/developer/api/reference/rest/status-pages/create-or-update-status-page-postmortem)