openstatus

# openstatus > Openstatus is an open-source uptime monitoring and status page platform. It runs synthetic checks in parallel from 28 regions across Fly.io, Koyeb, and Railway, surfaces incidents on branded status pages, and exposes a REST API plus MCP server for programmatic control. Available as managed SaaS or self-hosted (AGPL-3.0). Bootstrapped, founded in 2023. ## Who it's for - Development teams that want transparent incident communication - Companies that need multi-region uptime monitoring - Teams that prefer infrastructure-as-code workflows (monitoring as code via YAML) - Organizations that require self-hosted monitoring behind a firewall (private locations) - Open-source projects and startups looking for a free or affordable monitoring solution ## Pricing - **Hobby** — $0/month: 1 monitor, 6 regions, 10m check interval, 1 status page, 3 page components, 14-day data retention - **Starter** — $30/month: 20 monitors, 28 regions, 1m check interval, 1 status page, 20 components, 3-month retention, subscribers, custom domain, WhatsApp/SMS/PagerDuty alerts - **Pro** — $100/month: 50 monitors, 28 regions, 30s check interval, 5 status pages, 50 components, 12-month retention, private locations, OTel exporter, 20 notification channels - **Scale** — $500/month: everything in Pro plus 10 status pages, 500 page components, and White Label, Magic Link auth, and IP Restriction included at no extra cost Annual billing gives 2 months free (Starter $300/yr, Pro $1,000/yr, Scale $5,000/yr). Pricing is available in USD and EUR. ## Key Features - **28-region monitoring** — Parallel checks across Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania; no round-robin, all selected regions fire simultaneously - **Multi-cloud** — Monitors run on Fly.io, Koyeb, and Railway for true cloud diversity - **Status Pages** — Branded public or password-protected pages with custom domains, themes, maintenance windows, and subscriber notifications (email, RSS, Slack) - **API Monitoring** — Assertions, thresholds, status code checks, header and body validation - **Monitoring as Code** — Define monitors in YAML, manage via CLI or GitHub Actions - **Private Locations** — 8.5MB Docker image for monitoring internal services behind firewalls - **Alerting** — Email, Slack, Discord, webhook, WhatsApp, SMS, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Grafana OnCall - **OpenTelemetry** — Export synthetic check metrics to any OTLP endpoint - **SDK** — Node.js SDK on JSR (@openstatus/sdk-node) - **MCP server** — Streamable-HTTP MCP at https://api.openstatus.dev/mcp for status reports, maintenance windows, and monitor reads - **Open-source** — AGPL-3.0-licensed, self-hostable, 8k+ GitHub stars ## Key Differentiators - Open-source and bootstrapped (no VC funding) - Parallel scheduling — all selected regions check simultaneously (vs. round-robin competitors) - Unlimited team members on paid plans - Status page subscribers included (not a paid add-on) - Private status pages included in the team plan (not an additional charge) - Self-hosting option with full feature parity ## Product - [Status Page](https://www.openstatus.dev/status-page): Create a public or private status page in minutes. Show real-time uptime, incidents and maintenance on a fully branded page with a custom domain. - [Uptime Monitoring](https://www.openstatus.dev/uptime-monitoring): Monitor website and API uptime from around the world. Get instant downtime alerts via Slack, email and SMS. Free, open-source uptime monitoring ## Tooling - [API](https://www.openstatus.dev/tooling/api): A typed JSON-over-HTTP API powered by ConnectRPC — every endpoint the dashboard uses, with a fully typed Node SDK on top. - [CLI](https://www.openstatus.dev/tooling/cli): Manage monitors, status pages, and incidents from your terminal — interactive for humans, scriptable for agents, and YAML-managed for monitoring as code. - [MCP Server](https://www.openstatus.dev/tooling/mcp-server): Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and a […gekürzt]