License & Deployment Mix: 16 tools – 6 OSS, 10 SaaS. (OSS and SaaS counts can overlap when an open-source tool also offers a vendor-hosted edition.)

What Is Status Page Software?

Status page software provides a public or internal web page that communicates the real-time operational status of services, infrastructure, and applications. It is the primary channel for incident communication between service providers and their users.

Status pages replace ad-hoc emails and social media posts with a structured, branded communication channel that builds trust during outages. They serve both external customers and internal teams with consistent, timely updates.

Core capabilities that define status page software:

• Component status – display operational state of individual services, APIs, regions, or infrastructure components (operational, degraded, partial outage, major outage)
• Incident updates – create and update incident timelines with investigating, identified, monitoring, and resolved states
• Scheduled maintenance – announce planned maintenance windows with start/end times and affected components
• Uptime history – show historical availability as percentage uptime and incident timeline over 30/60/90 days
• Subscriber notifications – email, SMS, webhook, Slack, and RSS notifications when status changes or incidents are created/updated
• Metrics display – show real-time or historical performance metrics (response time, latency, throughput) on the status page
• Automation – integrate with monitoring tools to automatically create incidents and update component status based on alerts
• Branding – custom domain, logo, colors, and favicon to match the organization’s identity

The information on these pages was researched by a combination of human review and large language models. To suggest an addition or correction, please contact us. Prepared by Rhodium Systems Inc., author of the ResorsIT platform — a unified IT operations management platform for IT teams and MSPs that integrates a curated suite of open-source, commercial, and SaaS applications into a single system with shared identity, single sign-on, access control, and a common audit trail. Use this catalogue only as a starting point for your own research, and review any tool carefully against your own requirements before relying on it. Catalogue data version 2026.197.

Comparison

Feature Matrix – Open Source / Self-Hosted

* = via GitHub Issues ** = via Markdown files in Git repository

Feature Matrix – Commercial / SaaS

Feature Matrix – Incident Platforms

* = SMS for responder alerting, not subscriber notifications

Deployment Comparison

* = GitHub Pages + GitHub Actions; not fully self-contained

Licensing Comparison

* = requires PagerDuty Business plan

SSO / OIDC Comparison

OIDC is the preferred SSO protocol. The table notes each tool’s behaviour with Authentik as the IdP.

* = requires Atlassian Access add-on

Best OIDC support: Gatus, incident.io, and FireHydrant offer native OIDC that integrates directly with Authentik. Rootly offers OIDC on Enterprise plans.

Best self-hosted SSO: Gatus is the only self-hosted tool with native OIDC support.

Monitoring Integration Comparison

Best monitoring integration: Gatus (Prometheus metrics endpoint + alerting) and tools with incoming webhooks (Statuspage, Instatus, BetterStack, incident platforms) that can receive AlertManager notifications.

Tools

16 tools.

Atlassian Statuspage

Atlassian Statuspage (formerly StatusPage.io) is the dominant status page SaaS product. Acquired by Atlassian in 2016, it is used by thousands of companies including GitHub, Twilio, Datadog, Cloudflare, and Dropbox.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

Website

BetterStack

BetterStack (formerly Better Uptime) is a modern observability platform that combines uptime monitoring, status pages, incident management, and log management into a single SaaS product.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

Website

Cachet

Cachet is the original open-source status page application. Built on PHP/Laravel, it provides a full-featured status page with component management, incident tracking, metrics display, and subscriber notifications.

License: BSD-3-Clause (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: native · SSO: none

Website · Source

cState

cState is a Hugo-based open-source status page that generates a fast, static website from Markdown and YAML files. It requires no database, no backend server, and no JavaScript framework – the entire status page is pre-rendered HTML.

License: MIT (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: none

Website · Source

FireHydrant

FireHydrant is an incident management platform that provides automated incident response, status pages, and reliability tracking. It focuses on the full incident lifecycle from detection through resolution and learning.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

Website

Gatus

Gatus is an open-source health dashboard and automated status page written in Go, monitoring HTTP, TCP, DNS, ICMP, and SSH endpoints from a single YAML config with many alerting integrations.

License: Apache-2.0 (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: native · SSO: OIDC

Website · Source

Hyperping

Hyperping is a lightweight SaaS uptime monitoring and status page tool. It combines HTTP/TCP/ping monitoring with a branded public status page, targeting developers and small teams who want a simple, affordable solution.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

Website

incident.io

incident.io is an incident management platform built around Slack integration with a strong focus on developer experience.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

Website

Instatus

Instatus is a modern SaaS status page platform that positions itself as a faster, cheaper, and simpler alternative to Atlassian Statuspage. It emphasizes speed (static-site-like performance), generous free tier, and clean design.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

Website

PagerDuty Status Page

PagerDuty Status Page is a status page module within the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, providing customer-facing and internal pages that update automatically from PagerDuty incidents and service health.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

Website

Rootly

Rootly is an incident management platform that automates incident response workflows, primarily through Slack integration. Status pages are one module within Rootly’s broader incident response platform.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: OIDC, SAML

Website

Sorry (StatusPage.io)

Sorry (formerly known as Sorry, sometimes confused with StatusPage.io before Atlassian acquired that brand) is a SaaS status page and incident communication platform.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

Website

Statping-ng

Statping-ng is a community fork of the original Statping (Statup) project. It provides an uptime monitoring and status page application with a web admin panel, REST API, and public status page.

License: GPL-3.0-only (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: native, docker · SSO: none

Website · Source

StatusHub

StatusHub is a dedicated status page and incident communication platform focused on IT service providers and MSPs.

License: Proprietary (proprietary) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas · SSO: SAML

Website

Upptime

Upptime is a GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page. It uses GitHub Actions as the monitoring engine, GitHub Issues for incident management, and GitHub Pages for the status page – requiring no server infrastructure at al…

License: MIT (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: saas, native · SSO: none

Website · Source

UptimeKit

UptimeKit is an open-source, self-hosted status page and uptime monitoring platform with multi-tenant orgs.

License: MIT (OSS) · Kind: web · Deploy: docker · SSO: none

Website · Source