Instatus Alternative
Open-source uptime monitoring and status pages. Learn how openstatus compares to Instatus.
Openstatus and Instatus are both alternatives to Atlassian Statuspage, but they cover different ground. Instatus is focused purely on status pages — fast, CDN-delivered, with basic monitoring bolted on as a secondary feature. Openstatus treats monitoring and status pages as equal parts of the same product: checks run from 28 regions simultaneously, and your status page reflects those results in real time.
The practical difference: with Instatus, your status page and your monitoring live in separate worlds. With openstatus, an incident detected by a monitor can surface directly on your status page — no manual update, no webhook wiring between tools.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | openstatus | Instatus |
|---|---|---|
| Open-source | + | - |
| Self-hosted | + | - |
| Scheduling strategy | parallel | round-robin |
| Multi-region | 28 | 4 |
| Monitoring as code | + | - |
| OpenTelemetry export | + | - |
| GitHub Action | + | - |
| Status page | + | + |
| Unlimited subscribers | + | + |
| Team members | unlimited | unlimited |
When to Choose openstatus
- You need uptime monitoring tightly integrated with your status page
- You want 28-region parallel checks rather than basic single-location HTTP pings
- You need monitoring-as-code via YAML, CLI, Terraform, or GitHub Actions
- You prefer open-source software or need to self-host
- You want OpenTelemetry export to push check results into your existing observability stack
When to Choose Instatus
- You want a pure status page with no monitoring requirements
- You need a static, CDN-delivered status page with fast global load times
- You are migrating from Atlassian Statuspage and monitoring is handled by a separate tool