What is Instatus used for?

Instatus is a hosted status page service for publishing incident updates and notifying subscribers, with monitoring and Slack and Teams workflows. It is a good fit for communicating outages to customers and running an internal status page.

Yes. Instatus has a free plan. A free Starter plan is available. Pro and Business are paid monthly plans (amounts are not shown in the page text), with 25% off yearly billing; Enterprise is by contact.

Is Instatus open source?

No. Instatus is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Instatus include Uptime Kuma, OpenStatus and Cachet.

What are some alternatives to Instatus?

Instatus competes with Statuspal, Better Stack and Hyperping. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Instatus alternatives.

Instatus: features, pricing and alternatives

About Instatus

Instatus is a commercial service for creating status pages. Teams use it to share service health with customers, publish incident updates and notify subscribers, with pages that can be public or private and styled to match a brand.

The product also includes monitoring of services, tracking of availability and performance, and real-time alerts across channels so that the right people are told. Incidents can be handled collaboratively through integrations with the tools teams already use, including Slack and Microsoft Teams, and updates can be published straight to the status page. Instatus is proprietary and vendor-hosted. The vendor offers a free plan that requires no credit card, and paid plans are listed on its pricing page.

Key features

Hosted status pages
Incident updates and subscriber notifications
Private or public page options
Service monitoring and real-time alerts
Slack and Teams incident workflows
Custom branding for pages

Good fit for

→Communicating outages to customers
→Running an internal status page

Tags: status-page; incident-management; uptime-monitoring; notifications; slack; saas; free-plan

Instatus: questions and answers

What is Instatus used for?: Instatus is a hosted status page service for publishing incident updates and notifying subscribers, with monitoring and Slack and Teams workflows. It is a good fit for communicating outages to customers and running an internal status page.
Is Instatus free?: Yes. Instatus has a free plan. A free Starter plan is available. Pro and Business are paid monthly plans (amounts are not shown in the page text), with 25% off yearly billing; Enterprise is by contact.
Is Instatus open source?: No. Instatus is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Instatus include Uptime Kuma, OpenStatus and Cachet.
What are some alternatives to Instatus?: Instatus competes with Statuspal, Better Stack and Hyperping. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Instatus alternatives.