Are We Working vs Atlassian Statuspage

Both give you a public page that shows a status. The difference is who the page is for and what the status means.

What Atlassian Statuspage does

Atlassian Statuspage is a status page product aimed at software and IT teams. It is built to tell customers about incidents and outages in online services, and it fits with Atlassian's other engineering tools.

How they differ

	Atlassian Statuspage	Are We Working
What the status means	Is a software service up, degraded, or down, with incident updates.	Is the plant Open, Partially open, or Closed, with a short note like “Second shift starts at 4 PM.”
Who reads it	Customers and engineers following an outage.	Your crew, supervisors, and anyone who needs to know whether to come in.
How people hear about changes	Subscriber notifications for incidents.	Email on every plan, and text messages on the text plans, the moment the status changes. You pick which groups to alert, like managers only or the whole crew.
Who updates it	Usually an engineer or on-call responder.	A supervisor, from a phone, in about ten seconds.

Pick Atlassian Statuspage if

You run an online service and need incident workflows tied to engineering tools.
Your audience is customers watching an outage, not a crew deciding whether to drive in.

Pick Are We Working if

You run a plant, shop, school, or other site with shifts, and the question is “are we working today?”
You want to replace the phone tree, the call-in weather line, and updating the local TV station’s web page.
You want crew members to get a text, not just an email.

See what a status page looks like at areweworking.org/mikes-hardware, or read about replacing the phone tree.

Information about Atlassian Statuspage comes from its public website as of November 2026 and may have changed. Check its site for current details.

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