Languages

Publish your status page in English, Arabic, French and Spanish, within your account's language allowance. You can write translations yourself. Automatic translation requires the multilingual feature to be included and active on your account.

Dashboard → Languages. The screen lists every language with a checkbox to publish it, a link to view that version of the page, and a count of what is translated and what is still missing. It shows how many published languages this account allows and stops you choosing more.

Your default language

One language is the default. It matters in three places: it is the language you write incidents and monitor names in, the one everything else is translated from, and the one a visitor gets when their own language is not among yours. Make default beside any published language changes it.

How translation works

When AI translation is available, saving an incident, an update or a monitor name starts translation into the other languages. You are not asked to wait for it and you are not asked to approve it; during an outage, the worst possible time to add a step is while somebody is trying to publish.

Every translation is editable. If a phrase matters, open the incident and fix it; your edit is kept and is not overwritten. When something is still missing, the Languages screen says so beside that language, and a fill action translates whatever is left, which is what you want right after adding a language to a page that already has history.

Right-to-left

Arabic renders the page right-to-left in full: layout, alignment and punctuation, not just the text, with Arabic-Indic numerals. Nothing to configure; publishing in Arabic is all it takes.

What a visitor sees

Each language has its own address, and the page opens in the visitor's own language when it is one you publish, and in your default language otherwise. They can switch languages themselves at any time, and the choice sticks.

Everything else follows the same rule: subscriber emails go out in the language that subscriber chose, enabled badge and widget previews render in the language you picked for them, and the RSS feed takes a ?lang= filter (see Badges & feeds).

Adding or removing one

With AI translation available, adding a language translates your existing incidents into it. Turning one off hides it from visitors; the text is kept, so adding it back does not mean translating your history again.

Your default language cannot be removed. Change the default first if that is what you mean to do.

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