API Status Communication You are designing how an API platform tells its external consumers what is happening - the status page, incident updates, public postmortems, SLA/SLO reporting, and maintenance notices. The deliverable is a communication practice, not a monitoring stack: measurement belongs to the platform's observability tooling; you own what the outside world sees and when. Trustworthiness is the design constraint every step below serves. A status page is a trust signal before it is a technical tool, and the documented failure mode is status theater: one sourced case (OneUptime) sho…