Personal Notification Preferences
StatusPage.me now has two layers of notifications for account users:
- Shared notification channels for your team and status pages, such as email, Slack, Discord, webhooks, and PagerDuty
- Personal notification preferences for your own account, such as the dashboard bell, browser notifications, and critical incident alarm sounds
Use personal notification preferences when you want to control how you see alerts while working in the dashboard.
Where to configure them
Open:
- Personal alert preferences for your personal alert preferences
- Full in-app notification history for the full in-app notification history
If you need to configure team-wide delivery channels instead, use Notification Channels Overview.
Notification bell and in-app notifications
The bell icon in the top navigation gives you a quick in-app notification list.
From the dropdown, you can:
- Open a notification directly
- Mark an individual unread notification as read with the checkmark on that row
- Mark all visible notifications as read
- Open the full notifications page for older items
Clicking a notification row also clears its unread state as it opens the destination.
Use the full notifications page if you want a longer history or prefer reviewing items outside the dropdown.
Browser notifications
Browser notifications let StatusPage.me show incident-related alerts even when the dashboard tab is not in the foreground.
To enable them:
- Open Personal alert preferences
- Turn on Show browser notifications for incidents
- Allow notification permission when your browser prompts you
- Save your preferences
If your browser has already blocked notifications, StatusPage.me will show a warning and you will need to re-allow them in the browser’s site settings before enabling the toggle again.
Browser notifications are tied to the current browser/device. If you use multiple browsers or computers, enable them in each one where you want alerts.
Incident alarm sound
For critical events, you can also enable a local alarm sound inside the dashboard.
This is useful for high-priority events such as:
- monitor down alerts
- on-call escalations
When enabled, you can choose:
- whether the incident alarm is on at all
- which alarm sound to use
- the playback volume
- a quick preview before saving
The alarm is designed to loop until you dismiss the alert, so it is best used for situations where you want an unmistakable local warning while actively signed in.
How this differs from notification channels
Personal notification preferences do not replace your configured notification channels.
- Notification channels decide where your team-facing alerts are delivered across email, chat, webhooks, SMS, PagerDuty, and similar integrations.
- Personal preferences decide how your own signed-in dashboard session behaves.
For example, you can keep Slack and email enabled for the team, while also enabling browser notifications and a local incident alarm for yourself.