Alternatives / incident.io
Looking for an open source incident.io alternative? We compared 5 open source alert management, status page, and monitoring platforms by license, self-hosting, incident response, and AI features. Only some cover incident response, and several use open-core or source-available licenses.
Written by Maxime DERAME
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| Alternative | Best for | License |
|---|---|---|
| Keep | Alert management and AIOps (has ee directory) | MIT + ee directory |
| Cachet | Status pages only (custom license) | Cachet License (source available) |
| OpenStatus | Status pages and uptime monitoring | AGPL-3.0 |
| OneUptime | Monitoring, incidents, and status pages in one (has ee directory) | Apache-2.0 + ee directory |
| Wachd | Alert routing with AI root cause analysis (very young) | Apache-2.0 |
We looked for open-source tools that overlap with incident.io's core: gathering alerts, running incident response, and communicating status. We verified each project's license, recent activity, stars, and self-hosting in its repository. incident.io is a Slack-centered hosted product, so the list mixes alert platforms, status pages, and monitoring tools, and we note which cover on-call and incident workflows and which are only status pages. See our methodology for the full criteria.
Keep centralizes alerts and automates responses, OneUptime combines monitoring, incident management, and status pages, and Wachd routes alerts with AI-generated root cause analysis. OpenStatus and Cachet are status page and uptime tools rather than full incident response platforms, so they only cover the communication part of incident.io.
OneUptime is the closest all-in-one option, covering monitoring, on-call and incidents, and status pages in a single platform. Keep is closest for alert management and automated workflows across monitoring tools, and none of the five has the polished Slack-native flow that incident.io is known for.
Keep is MIT outside its ee directory, which is under a separate license. OneUptime is Apache-2.0 for its Community Edition, with an Enterprise ee directory. Cachet uses its own Cachet License, which forbids distributing the software as a standalone product, so it is source available. OpenStatus is AGPL-3.0, and Wachd is Apache-2.0.
Wachd is self-hosted with a Helm chart or on a single server, and it receives alerts from Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus. Its root cause analysis needs an AI backend you choose, such as Ollama for local, air-gapped setups, or a cloud model. It was created in April 2026 and has only 42 stars, so treat it as early stage.
Keep, OpenStatus, OneUptime, Wachd, and Cachet all had commits in the last few weeks. Cachet's latest tagged release is still 2.4.1 from November 2023, while development continues toward version 3.
incident.io is a proprietary hosted product priced per user, with on-call, status pages, and AI features sold as add-ons, and incident data stored in its cloud. Open-source alternatives let you self-host alerts and incident data, avoid per-seat pricing, integrate with your own monitoring stack, and customize workflows, at the cost of running the platform and a less polished Slack-native experience.
Cachet is a long-running self-hosted status page system for communicating system status and incidents, with components, metrics, and subscribers, built on Laravel. It uses the Cachet License, which allows commercial use and modification but forbids distributing the software as a standalone product, so it is source available. Its latest tagged release is 2.4.1 from November 2023, and version 3 is in development.
Pricing: Free to self-host.
Keep is an open-source AIOps and alert management platform that centralizes alerts from monitoring tools, correlates and summarizes them with AI, and automates responses with workflows, with integrations for tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, and Grafana. The repository is MIT except for the ee directory, which is under a separate license, and it offers enterprise authentication such as SSO, SAML, OIDC, and LDAP.
Pricing: Free to self-host; Keep Cloud and enterprise features are paid.
OpenStatus is an open-source status page, incident response, and uptime monitoring platform that checks endpoints from 28 global regions, with monitors and status pages declared in YAML or Terraform and an MCP interface. It is AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted, and a managed service is offered with a free plan limited to one monitor and one status page.
Pricing: Free to self-host; the managed service has a free plan and paid plans.
OneUptime is an open-source monitoring and observability platform that covers uptime monitoring, incident management, on-call, status pages, logs, and traces in one product that can be self-hosted. The Community Edition is Apache-2.0, while an ee directory holds Enterprise code, and a managed OneUptime Cloud is available.
Pricing: Free to self-host the Community Edition; cloud and Enterprise plans are paid.
Wachd is a self-hosted alert intelligence platform that receives alerts from Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus and generates root cause analysis with an AI backend you choose, such as Ollama for air-gapped setups. It deploys with a Helm chart on Kubernetes or on a single server, is Apache-2.0, and has paid tiers for cloud AI backends and compliance features.
Pricing: Free open-source version with unlimited teams and users; paid tiers add cloud AI backends and compliance features.
| Alternative | Type | License | Self-hosted | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep | Alert management | MIT + ee directory | Yes | AIOps and alert workflows |
| Cachet | Status page | Cachet License (source available) | Yes | Public status pages |
| OpenStatus | Status page and uptime | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Uptime monitoring |
| OneUptime | Observability platform | Apache-2.0 + ee directory | Yes | All-in-one |
| Wachd | Alert intelligence | Apache-2.0 | Yes | AI root cause analysis |
Want monitoring, incidents, and status pages in one platform
OneUptime covers uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages, with an Apache-2.0 Community Edition and an Enterprise ee directory.
Want to centralize alerts from many monitoring tools
Keep centralizes alerts, correlates them, and automates responses, under MIT apart from its ee directory.
Want a status page with uptime checks
OpenStatus checks endpoints from 28 regions and publishes status pages under AGPL-3.0, and it is not a full incident response tool.
Want AI root cause analysis on your own infrastructure
Wachd analyzes alerts from Grafana, Datadog, and Prometheus with a local or cloud AI backend, but it is very young.
Only need a public status page
Cachet is a long-running status page system, but its custom license is source available and its latest release dates from 2023.