diff --git a/server/internal/services/statuspages.go b/server/internal/services/statuspages.go
index 4fdbc0c..fda97ae 100644
--- a/server/internal/services/statuspages.go
+++ b/server/internal/services/statuspages.go
@@ -44,22 +44,30 @@ func spCtx() (context.Context, context.CancelFunc) {
 // EnsureAuthIndexes: the unique page_id index is a correctness property, but a
 // missing secondary index on a small collection degrades to a scan, which is no
 // reason to refuse to serve the fleet. main.go warns rather than exiting.
+//
+// All three are attempted and the failures joined, rather than returning on
+// the first. The three are independent, and two of them are uniqueness
+// constraints — bailing out on the status_pages index meant a transient
+// failure there silently left status_incidents with no unique
+// (instance_id, incident_id) index at all.
 func EnsureStatusPageIndexes() error {
 	ctx, cancel := spCtx()
 	defer cancel()
 
+	var errs []error
+
 	if _, err := db.Col("status_pages").Indexes().CreateOne(ctx, mongo.IndexModel{
 		Keys:    bson.D{{Key: "instance_id", Value: 1}, {Key: "page_id", Value: 1}},
 		Options: options.Index().SetUnique(true),
 	}); err != nil {
-		return err
+		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("status_pages (instance_id, page_id): %w", err))
 	}
 
 	if _, err := db.Col("status_incidents").Indexes().CreateOne(ctx, mongo.IndexModel{
 		Keys:    bson.D{{Key: "instance_id", Value: 1}, {Key: "incident_id", Value: 1}},
 		Options: options.Index().SetUnique(true),
 	}); err != nil {
-		return err
+		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("status_incidents (instance_id, incident_id): %w", err))
 	}
 
 	// The public read filters by page and orders by recency, and it is the
@@ -67,9 +75,10 @@ func EnsureStatusPageIndexes() error {
 	if _, err := db.Col("status_incidents").Indexes().CreateOne(ctx, mongo.IndexModel{
 		Keys: bson.D{{Key: "instance_id", Value: 1}, {Key: "page_ids", Value: 1}, {Key: "started_at", Value: -1}},
 	}); err != nil {
-		return err
+		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("status_incidents (instance_id, page_ids, started_at): %w", err))
 	}
-	return nil
+
+	return errors.Join(errs...)
 }
 
 var (
diff --git a/server/internal/services/statussnapshot.go b/server/internal/services/statussnapshot.go
index f44903d..b749d02 100644
--- a/server/internal/services/statussnapshot.go
+++ b/server/internal/services/statussnapshot.go
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ func assembleSnapshot(in snapshotInput) StatusSnapshot {
 		if inc.StartedAt.Before(in.Now.AddDate(0, 0, -HistoryDays)) {
 			continue
 		}
-		snap.History = append(snap.History, PublicIncident{
+		derived := PublicIncident{
 			ID:         inc.IncidentID,
 			Kind:       models.StatusKindIncident,
 			Title:      name + " unavailable",
@@ -180,7 +180,15 @@ func assembleSnapshot(in snapshotInput) StatusSnapshot {
 			Affected:   []string{name},
 			StartedAt:  inc.StartedAt,
 			ResolvedAt: inc.ResolvedAt,
-		})
+		}
+		// An outage that has not recovered is happening now. Filing it under
+		// History while the component pill reads Down and Overall reads down
+		// told the reader the disruption was over.
+		if inc.ResolvedAt == nil {
+			snap.ActiveIncidents = append(snap.ActiveIncidents, derived)
+		} else {
+			snap.History = append(snap.History, derived)
+		}
 	}
 
 	sort.Slice(snap.History, func(i, j int) bool {
@@ -551,8 +559,10 @@ func storeSnapshot(instanceID, pageID string, snap StatusSnapshot) {
 func overallState(sections []PublicSection) string {
 	worst := PublicUp
 	anyDown, anyMaint, anyOther := false, false, false
+	counted := 0
 	for _, s := range sections {
 		for _, c := range s.Components {
+			counted++
 			switch c.Status {
 			case PublicDown:
 				anyDown = true
@@ -564,6 +574,12 @@ func overallState(sections []PublicSection) string {
 		}
 	}
 	switch {
+	case counted == 0:
+		// Nothing is being reported, so nothing is known. "All systems
+		// operational" over zero components is a claim of health made from no
+		// evidence at all; PublicNoData is what the view renders as
+		// "Status unknown".
+		worst = PublicNoData
 	case anyDown:
 		worst = PublicDown
 	case anyMaint:
diff --git a/server/internal/services/statussnapshot_test.go b/server/internal/services/statussnapshot_test.go
index 40c1b5e..e41e004 100644
--- a/server/internal/services/statussnapshot_test.go
+++ b/server/internal/services/statussnapshot_test.go
@@ -222,3 +222,59 @@ func TestAssembleSnapshotOnlyIncludesAuthoredIncidentsForThisPage(t *testing.T)
 		t.Fatalf("active incidents = %+v, want only the one naming this page", snap.ActiveIncidents)
 	}
 }
+
+// A derived outage that has not recovered is happening now. It used to be
+// appended to History unconditionally, so a live outage was reported under
+// "Past incidents" while the component pill next to it read Down.
+func TestAssembleSnapshotDerivedIncidentActiveUntilResolved(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2026, 8, 24, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	resolved := now.Add(-30 * time.Minute)
+
+	in := testInput(now)
+	in.AutoIncidents = []models.Incident{
+		{
+			IncidentID: "inc-open",
+			MonitorID:  "mon-2",
+			StartedAt:  now.Add(-2 * time.Hour),
+		},
+		{
+			IncidentID: "inc-closed",
+			MonitorID:  "mon-1",
+			StartedAt:  now.Add(-3 * time.Hour),
+			ResolvedAt: &resolved,
+		},
+	}
+
+	snap := assembleSnapshot(in)
+
+	if len(snap.ActiveIncidents) != 1 || snap.ActiveIncidents[0].ID != "inc-open" {
+		t.Fatalf("unresolved incident should be active, got %+v", snap.ActiveIncidents)
+	}
+	if snap.ActiveIncidents[0].ResolvedAt != nil {
+		t.Errorf("active incident carries a resolved_at: %v", snap.ActiveIncidents[0].ResolvedAt)
+	}
+	if len(snap.History) != 1 || snap.History[0].ID != "inc-closed" {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved incident should be history, got %+v", snap.History)
+	}
+	if snap.History[0].ResolvedAt == nil {
+		t.Errorf("history entry lost its resolved_at")
+	}
+}
+
+// A page with no components knows nothing, and claiming "all systems
+// operational" from no evidence is the one answer it must not give.
+func TestAssembleSnapshotEmptyPageIsNotOperational(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2026, 8, 24, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+
+	in := testInput(now)
+	in.Page.Sections = nil
+	if got := assembleSnapshot(in).Overall; got != PublicNoData {
+		t.Errorf("overall for a page with no components = %q, want %q", got, PublicNoData)
+	}
+
+	in = testInput(now)
+	in.Page.Sections = []models.StatusPageSection{{Name: "API"}}
+	if got := assembleSnapshot(in).Overall; got != PublicNoData {
+		t.Errorf("overall for a page with an empty section = %q, want %q", got, PublicNoData)
+	}
+}