Alternatives / Instatus
Looking for an open source Instatus alternative? We compared 12 open source status page and uptime tools by license, features, and maintenance. Uptime Kuma, Gatus, and OpenStatus are the most established, while others are newer or source available.
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| Alternative | Best for | License |
|---|---|---|
| Uptime Kuma | Lightweight monitor with status pages | MIT |
| Cachet | Status page platform (source available) | Cachet License (source available) |
| Gatus | Config-driven monitoring and status page | Apache-2.0 |
| OpenStatus | Multi-region checks and status pages | AGPL-3.0 |
| OneUptime | Monitoring, incidents, and status pages | Apache-2.0 + ee directory |
| Kener | Svelte status page with Docker setup | MIT |
| Tianji | Analytics, uptime, and status in one | Apache-2.0 |
| Peekaping | Monitoring with 15+ notification channels | MIT |
| Statusnook | Status page system (stale) | MIT |
| EasyMonitor | HTTP/ICMP monitoring on a small VPS | MIT |
| Uptimepage | Hosted-first monitoring with on-call | AGPL-3.0 |
| StatusScout | Uptime plus security checks (source available) | StatusScout License 2.0 (source available) |
We looked for open-source tools that publish a status page and monitor uptime like Instatus. We verified each project's license, recent activity, stars, and self-hosting in its repository, and flag licenses that are not standard open source. See our methodology for the full criteria.
OpenStatus is a status page and uptime monitor with checks from 28 regions, an API, Terraform, and a CLI. Uptime Kuma is a lightweight self-hosted monitor with status pages and 90+ notification integrations, and Gatus offers automated status pages with many check types.
OneUptime combines monitoring, incident management, and status pages. Tianji bundles analytics, uptime, server status, and status pages in one deployable, and StatusScout adds security checks and broken link detection.
Kener is a Svelte status page with Docker deployment, Peekaping monitors websites, databases, and queues with 15+ notification channels, and EasyMonitor does HTTP and ICMP monitoring with status pages. Statusnook is a status page system, and Uptimepage is primarily a hosted service with on-call scheduling.
Cachet uses its own source-available license, StatusScout uses StatusScout License 2.0, and OneUptime keeps enterprise features in separate directories. Statusnook's last commit was in October 2024.
Uptime Kuma, Kener, Peekaping, EasyMonitor, and Statusnook are MIT. Gatus and Tianji are Apache-2.0. OpenStatus and Uptimepage are AGPL-3.0.
Most had commits within weeks of this update.
Instatus is a proprietary hosted service priced by subscribers and pages, and your status page runs on the same internet as the services it reports on. Self-hosted tools avoid per-page pricing, but you must host the page somewhere that stays up during an outage.
Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitoring tool for websites, APIs, and services, with 90+ notification integrations such as Slack, Telegram, Discord, PagerDuty, and email, status pages with custom domains, many monitor types including HTTP, TCP, DNS, Docker, and databases, maintenance windows, and two-factor authentication.
Pricing: Free and open source.
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.
Gatus is a highly customizable monitoring tool with automated status pages, checks for HTTP, GraphQL, DNS, ICMP, TCP, and certificates, customizable conditions, and alerts through email, Slack, PagerDuty, Teams, Twilio, and Discord, configured as code.
Pricing: Free and open source.
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.
Kener is an open-source status page and uptime monitor with Docker deployment, 11 service types, incident management, scheduled maintenance, and subscriber notifications.
Pricing: Free and open source.
Tianji is a self-hostable platform combining cookieless web analytics, uptime monitoring, server and Docker status, status pages, telemetry, and surveys, with an OpenAPI interface.
Pricing: Free and open source.
Peekaping is an MIT-licensed uptime monitoring tool for websites, databases, and services, with status pages. Its last commit was in May 2026, so development is slower than Uptime Kuma's.
Pricing: Free and open source.
Statusnook is an open-source status page system with real-time updates, incident management, maintenance scheduling, brand customization, notifications, and endpoint monitoring, deployable in minutes.
Pricing: Free and open source.
EasyMonitor is an MIT-licensed, self-hosted HTTP and ICMP monitoring tool with status pages that you can run with one Docker Compose command. Multi-region probes require your own infrastructure or VPN setup. It is a very small project.
Pricing: Free and open source.
Uptimepage is an uptime monitoring platform with eight monitor types including HTTP, TCP, DNS, ICMP, heartbeat, TLS, domain expiry, and browser login checks, multi-region checks, on-call rotations with escalation policies, public status pages, and REST API, Terraform, and MCP support. It is AGPL-3.0 and can be self-hosted as a single binary or used as a hosted service.
Pricing: Hosted service with a free tier; self-hosting is free.
StatusScout monitors security headers, SSL certificates, DNS records, exposed files, uptime, broken links, and user flows, and alerts you when something fails. It is self-hosted and free to run under the StatusScout License 2.0, which is source available with restrictions on reselling it as a hosted service. A managed cloud starts at $12 a month.
Pricing: Free to self-host; the managed cloud is paid.
| Alternative | Type | License | Self-hosted | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uptime Kuma | Monitoring | MIT | Yes | Closest simple replacement |
| Cachet | Status page | Cachet License (source available) | Yes | Classic status pages |
| Gatus | Monitoring | Apache-2.0 | Yes | Infrastructure as code |
| OpenStatus | Monitoring | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | Global monitoring |
| OneUptime | Observability suite | Apache-2.0 core + EE | Yes | All-in-one |
| Kener | Status page | MIT | Yes | Simple status pages |
| Tianji | Monitoring suite | Apache-2.0 | Yes | Small teams |
| Peekaping | Monitoring | MIT | Yes | Many monitor types |
| Statusnook | Status page | MIT | Yes | Check maintenance first |
| EasyMonitor | Monitoring | MIT | Yes | Light setups |
| Uptimepage | Monitoring | AGPL-3.0 | Hosted focus | Teams wanting on-call |
| StatusScout | Monitoring | StatusScout License 2.0 | Yes | Check license first |
Want the simplest self-hosted monitor
Uptime Kuma runs as one container with SQLite and 90+ notification integrations.
Want multi-region checks
OpenStatus checks from 28 regions with an API and Terraform provider.
Want configuration as code
Gatus is configured in a file and offers automated status pages.
Want monitoring and incident management
OneUptime combines monitoring, incidents, and status pages.