OpenStatus
Open-source status page and uptime monitoring tool for communicating incidents and proving compliance readiness.
| What is it | Open-source status page and uptime monitoring tool for communicating incidents and proving compliance readiness. |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Freemium — from $30/mo |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Platform | Web Application |
| API | Yes |
| Best for | communicating service outages to users, proving SOC 2 compliance for incident communication |
| Domain registered | 2023 |
Data updated Aug. 1, 2026
What does OpenStatus do?
OpenStatus is an open-source platform that provides teams with a branded status page and comprehensive uptime monitoring. It lets you create a public or password-protected status page at your own domain, where you can post incident reports, schedule maintenance windows, and allow users to subscribe for updates via email or RSS. The system automatically monitors your HTTP endpoints from 28 global regions and updates your status page when issues are detected, removing the need for manual updates during an outage.
The tool stands out through its strong focus on compliance and customization. It generates a timestamped audit trail of all incident communications, which is specifically designed to meet SOC 2 requirements. You can customize your status page's appearance using themes from their Theme Store, and monitor services behind firewalls using a lightweight Docker container. Monitoring configurations can be version-controlled with YAML and integrated into your CI/CD pipeline.
This is particularly valuable for development and operations teams in growing companies that need to communicate service status transparently to users while preparing for compliance audits. Real-world use cases include setting up status.cal.com for customer-facing incident communication, creating internal status pages for engineering teams, and providing auditors with documented proof of incident management processes.
Key features
What makes it stand outWho is OpenStatus for?
Who benefits most from this toolPricing
Free tier available — start without a credit cardHobby
- 6 regions
- 1 monitors
- 3 components
- 1 status pages
- 1 team members
- 30 on demand checks
- 14 data retention days
- 1 notification channels
- Status Pages (1)
- Components (3)
- Maintenance status
- Toggle numbers visibility
- Check Interval: 10m
- Monitors (1)
- Multi-region monitoring
- Regions: 6
- Data retention: 14 days
- On-demand checks: 30/mo
- Slack/Discord/Email/Webhook alerts
- Notification channels: 1
- Team members: 1
Starter
Everything in Hobby, plus:
- 28 regions
- 20 monitors
- 20 components
- unlimited team members
- 100 on demand checks
- 1 status pages base
- 3 data retention months
- 10 notification channels
- 20 status pages additional cost
- Everything in Hobby plus:
- Status pages: 1 + $20/mo each
- Components: 20
- Subscribers
- Custom domain
- Slack Agent
- Check Interval: 1m
- Monitors: 20
- Total regions: 28
- Data retention: 3 months
- Response logs
- On-demand checks: 100/mo
- WhatsApp alerts
- SMS alerts
- PagerDuty alerts
- OpsGenie alerts
- Grafana OnCall alerts
- Notification channels: 10
- Team members: Unlimited
- Password Protection
Pro
Everything in Starter, plus:
- 50 monitors
- 50 components
- unlimited team members
- 300 on demand checks
- 5 status pages base
- 28 regions per monitor
- 12 data retention months
- 20 notification channels
- 20 status pages additional cost
- Everything in Starter plus:
- Status pages: 5 + $20/mo each
- Components: 50
- Check Interval: 30s
- Monitors: 50
- Regions per monitor: 28
- Data retention: 12 months
- Private locations
- OTel Exporter
- On-demand checks: 300/mo
- Notification channels: 20
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