Hiding a Monitor from Your Status Page
Last updated: 2026-09-25
Not every monitor belongs on your public status page. An internal admin panel, a noisy staging endpoint, or a check you only care about for alerting can all stay out of your visitors’ sight. You can now hide a monitor from its status page without deleting it, pausing it, or detaching it.
A hidden monitor:
- Keeps running its checks on the normal schedule.
- Keeps alerting through its notification channels.
- Keeps its history in the dashboard, check history, and SLA reports.
- Disappears from the public status page, so visitors no longer see it.
Hiding and Showing a Monitor
Open Monitors in your dashboard. For any monitor that belongs to a status page, you will find a visibility control. Its location depends on the view you use:
- Compact view: open the monitor’s actions menu (the three dots) and switch Show on public status page off or on.
- Card view: use the eye button in the card footer. An open eye means the monitor is shown; an eye with a slash means it is hidden.
A small toast confirms the change (“Hidden from the status page” or “Now visible on the status page”), and the page updates right away. If the request fails, the control reverts to its previous state.
Monitors that are not attached to a status page (private monitors) have no visibility control, because they are never shown publicly in the first place.
The “Hidden” badge
A monitor that is currently hidden carries a Hidden badge in the monitors list, so you can tell at a glance what visitors can and cannot see.
What Visitors See
When you hide a monitor, the status page stops listing it. Showing it again restores it to the page. Your status page caches are refreshed automatically, so you do not need to wait for the change to appear.
Heads up: hiding is about what is displayed. A hidden monitor that goes down still sends alerts to you. If you want a check to stop alerting as well, pause or disable the monitor instead.
Hide vs. Make Private
Two actions sound similar but do different things:
| Action | Stays attached to the status page | Visible to visitors | Easy to reverse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hide (toggle off) | Yes | No | Yes, toggle on |
| Make Private | No, it is detached and becomes a private monitor | No | Needs re-linking |
Use Hide when you expect to show the monitor again later. Use Make Private when the monitor should live on its own, outside any status page. See Private Standalone Monitors.