Ali is the founder of Instatus. Feel free to reach out to him via email at ali@instatus.com or on Twitter.
If you want to create a new status page for your project or company, and you want it to be open-source and free to use, I’ve just chosen the best ones for you.
LambStatus is a serverless status page system. The idea behind using serverless is that your status page is rarely opened, so you’ll only pay when it is used; not a fixed monthly payment like most other services that require a traditional host.
Pay for what you use
Has a decent admin dashboard
You can integrate your metrics
Not the best-designed status page; It doesn’t feel modern to me
You’re required to host on Amazon AWS. It’s built on AWS services like CloudFormation and Cognito, so you can’t choose another platform
Some data load after the page loads. Here is (slowed down) video version of what users see when they open the page
First version of Cachet was released in 2015, so it’s one the most stable and feature-rich open-source options. However, its status page design feels outdated to me, and also it uses a PHP backend, so it requires a server that’s billed monthly.
Has a good dashboard
Can categorize components
Add your service metrics
Accompanying API
Not the best-designed page
Not easy to customize
No notifications.
This is one of the most stable and feature-rich because, like cachet, it’s been there for a long time. Plus, it’s the only one on the list that supports email notifications.
Good and clean dashboard
Simple design
Email notifications
It’s built on Ruby on Rails, so requires a host with monthly payment
Incidents details aren’t fully displayed in the status page. Only shown in the incident details page
cState uses a JAM stack. It’s statically generated, which means you can easily host it for free on Netlify or Github Pages. It doesn’t have a dashboard though, so to update you’ll need to update incidents using Github, and your host will auto-publish it. Another way is to use Netlify CMS but it requires additional setup.
Simple and modern design
Extremely fast to load
Free Netlify or Github Pages hosting
No GUI dashboard (but can setup Netlify CMS)
No API
Only RSS notifications
Incident details aren’t shown on the homepage
Statusfy's biggest feature is that it has all hosting options:
Statically generate your status page, and host it for free like Cstate
Use server rendering it and host it on a regular server
Modern design
Static generated option for free hosting
Has an API
Browser, Calendar, and RSS notifications
Fast to open
No GUI dashboard to add and edit incidents
No component categories
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