A status page is the easy part. The choice between tools comes down to what sits around it: monitoring that notices a problem, on-call that wakes someone up, and some way to tell customers when the fault is at a provider you use. The tools below are grouped by what they do best. They are not ranked.
Sentivel wrote this and is one of the ten. Pricing changes often, so the table lists each pricing model and leaves out figures. Check the vendor's own pricing page before deciding.
| Tool | Status page | Built-in monitoring | Third-party deps | On-call | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sentivel | Yes | Yes (multi-region) | Yes (user-mapped) | Yes | Free plan, one bundle |
| Atlassian Statuspage | Yes | No | Partial (components) | Via integrations | Per subscriber + seat |
| Better Stack | Yes | Yes (multi-region) | Partial (IsDown add-on) | Yes | Modular bundle |
| Instatus | Yes | Basic | Manual only | Yes | Per monitor, low entry |
| Hyperping | Yes | Yes (multi-region) | No | Yes | Flat rate |
| OpenStatus | Yes | Yes (multi-region) | No | Via integrations | Open source / SaaS |
| Uptime Kuma | Basic | Yes | No | No | Open source, self-host |
| Cachet | Yes | No | No | No | Open source, self-host |
| StatusGator | Aggregated | Yes | Yes (core) | Via integrations | Per monitor tiers |
| IsDown | Aggregated | Partial | Yes (core) | Via integrations | Per monitor tiers |
Status page, monitoring and on-call in one tool
Better Stack covers uptime monitoring, status pages, incident management and on-call, checks from several regions, and has a generous free tier. Its pricing is sold in modules, which makes the total hard to work out as you add packs and seats. Third-party status comes through a separate IsDown integration.
Hyperping has a similar set of features at a flat rate with no per-seat charge, which suits larger teams. It confirms an outage from more than one region before declaring it. It does not read provider status pages, so it can't tell customers when a provider is the cause.
Instatus is known for fast, good-looking pages and a low entry price. Its monitoring and on-call arrived later and are lighter than the two above.
Sentivel also belongs here: status pages, monitoring confirmed across regions, and on-call. You can also map which of your components depend on which providers, and when one of those providers has an incident, Sentivel posts a plain-English notice on your status page and removes it when the incident ends. Alert24 maps provider incidents to your own components too, and Statuspage can flip a third-party component automatically. Sentivel is newer than most tools here and has fewer integrations.
Status page only
Atlassian Statuspage is the long-standing incumbent. It has a detailed incident workflow, a large set of integrations, and 150+ third-party components that follow a provider's published status. There is no built-in monitoring, and it gets expensive as subscribers and seats grow. Cachet is an open-source, self-hosted equivalent with incidents and components and no monitoring. Its 3.x rewrite is still in development, so most production installs run 2.x.
Open source and self-hosted
Uptime Kuma is an MIT-licensed monitor you run yourself, with a tidy UI and dozens of notification channels. It runs on one node, so there are no multi-region checks, and it has no on-call or incident updates. OpenStatus is AGPL-licensed monitoring-as-code with an API, a Terraform provider and probes in many regions. You can self-host it or use the hosted version. Alerts go to an external on-call tool.
Third-party status aggregators
StatusGator and IsDown watch the official status pages of thousands of services and alert you when one changes. Both can also monitor your own endpoints and publish aggregated boards. They are the most thorough at spotting provider outages. They report what the provider publishes, have no on-call of their own, and don't map a provider outage to the parts of your product it affects.
Which one fits
- You have monitoring and need a public page: Statuspage, Instatus, or self-hosted Cachet.
- You want monitoring, a status page and on-call together: Better Stack, Hyperping or Sentivel.
- You want to self-host: Uptime Kuma or OpenStatus.
- You mainly need to know when your providers are down: StatusGator or IsDown.
- You want customers told automatically when a provider you mapped has an incident: Sentivel or Alert24.