Publish a Public API Status History Table From Spreadsheet Logs
Share reliability history in a format customers can inspect.
Platform teams often log incidents in spreadsheets before building dedicated status infrastructure. Customers still need clear historical reporting.
Before: incident notes are buried in release updates.
After: a status history table lets readers filter by service, severity, and date range.
Main friction point: Trust drops when incident details are hard to find after an outage.
Create Your First TableA concrete example
After a major incident, enterprise customers ask for the last 90 days of API issues. The reliability team filters by service and exports a focused view in minutes.
Example spreadsheet for this post: Download Example Sheet
| Incident ID | Service |
|---|
| INC-7001 | Auth API |
| INC-7002 | Billing API |
| INC-7003 | Webhook API |
| INC-7004 | Search API |
| INC-7005 | Auth API |
| Start time | End time | Severity | Root cause category | Resolution status |
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|---|
| 2026-03-01 08:15 | 2026-03-01 09:02 | SEV2 | Database failover | Resolved | |
| 2026-03-05 11:42 | 2026-03-05 12:05 | SEV3 | Queue backlog | Resolved | |
| 2026-03-08 14:30 | 2026-03-08 16:10 | SEV1 | Network route | Resolved | |
| 2026-03-14 09:05 | 2026-03-14 09:40 | SEV2 | Cache invalidation | Resolved | |
| 2026-03-20 18:20 | 2026-03-20 18:55 | SEV3 | Config drift | Resolved |
Why a web table works better for this use case
A web table is easier to use when people need to:
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Customers can inspect historical reliability without support tickets.
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Success teams can share one authoritative incident view.
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Trust-center updates become easier to maintain.
What this usually looks like in the spreadsheet
A typical spreadsheet for this workflow might include:
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Incident ID
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Service
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Start time
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End time
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Severity
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Root cause category
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Resolution status
A practical way to publish it
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Upload your incident log workbook
- Keep timestamps in consistent format.
- Include severity and status columns.
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Enable timeline-friendly controls
- Sort by start time descending.
- Filter by service and severity.
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Embed in status or trust pages
- Place the table where customers already check reliability.
- Reimport after each incident postmortem update.
Final thoughts
If you already have the spreadsheet, start with that file and publish one table for your next stakeholder review.
Create Your First Table