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Should I use OpenStatus?

Open-source status page with global uptime monitoring - openstatus.dev

Depends. Buy if you're a developer-led team wanting an open-source status page with uptime monitoring and can tolerate a young vendor. Skip it if you need enterprise compliance, bundled observability, or premium support.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 13+ public sources: Reddit, HN, G2, CVE databases, competitor pages, and openstatus.dev.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo support evidence in reviewed sources
  • Security posture

Pricing

Free

Hobby

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes
Profrom $30/mo
Third tiernot disclosed in sources

Best for

  • Developer-led SaaS teams
  • Startups replacing Statuspage fees
  • Self-hosters and open-source shops
  • Teams automating via monitoring-as-code

Not for

  • Enterprises needing compliance attestations — none shown in evidence
  • Non-technical teams wanting hands-off monitoring
  • Buyers wanting one tool for full observability
  • Guess: huge monitor fleets — per-monitor tiers scale poorly

Gotchas - check before you buy

high

Self-hosting is free but you own patching; a 2026 XSS CVE means staying current matters.

medium

Entry tiers cap monitors — a competitor's switch page cites 25-monitor limits. Count your monitors first.

medium

Hosted tiers beyond the $30/mo entry aren't detailed in sources — verify costs before committing.

medium

Startup-stage vendor; no evidence of SLAs or enterprise support contracts.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Positioned as open-source alternative to Atlassian Statuspage
  • Self-hostable open-source codebase with 9.1k GitHub stars
  • Combines uptime monitoring and status pages in one product
  • Monitoring-as-code, CLI, and API for automation
  • Twenty case study reports minutes-long status page setup

Cons

  • Monitor-count limits; competitor cites 25-monitor ceilings steering users away
  • Two CVEs disclosed in 2026, including an XSS
  • Young company (2023); no enterprise support evidence found
  • Guess: fewer enterprise integrations than BetterStack or Statuspage

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/27/2026 - 13 sources - Open-source with a security page and disclosure policy; two 2026 CVEs disclosed.

official x6review x3security x2news x2
  • CVE-2026-5808 — XSS in openstatus, Cross-site scripting vulnerability listed in SentinelOne's database, April 2026; a related GitHub advisory (GHSA-952x-346h-wrvr) was also published.
  • CVE-2026-90486 — medium vulnerability, Rated medium by Tenable; tracked by Rapid7 and other databases, September 2026.

Key stats

  • Value for money: 4/5

    Rating

  • Free

    Starting price

  • 13

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 4/5. Open-source core; paid entry $30/mo
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Customer story cites minutes-long setup
  • Feature depth: 3/5. Uptime plus status pages; not full observability
  • Support quality. No support evidence in reviewed sources
  • Security posture: 3/5. Disclosure policy exists; two 2026 CVEs
  • $30/mo Starting price Paid entry tier
  • Yes Free tier Open-source core; self-host free
  • 9.1k GitHub stars openstatusHQ/openstatus repo
  • 2023 Launched Show HN post, Oct 2023

Pricing

Hobby

Free

  • Open-source core, self-host free
  • Basic monitors

Pro

from $30/mo

  • Uptime monitoring + status page
  • Global checks

Third tier

Not disclosed

  • G2 lists 3 total pricing tiers

Security

Open-source with a security page and disclosure policy; two 2026 CVEs disclosed.

  • CVE-2026-5808 — XSS in openstatusCross-site scripting vulnerability listed in SentinelOne's database, April 2026; a related GitHub advisory (GHSA-952x-346h-wrvr) was also published.⁸
  • CVE-2026-90486 — medium vulnerabilityRated medium by Tenable; tracked by Rapid7 and other databases, September 2026.⁹

What users say

Community on Reddit and Hacker News treats it as a credible open-source Statuspage alternative; formal reviews are sparse.

“OpenStatus an open source alternative to Atlassian Statuspage”
Reddit, r/opensource

Alternatives

Compare OpenStatus with each alternative.

  • Atlassian Statuspage

    Enterprise incumbent; pricier but battle-tested

  • BetterStack

    Polished suite with incident management beyond status pages

  • OnlineOrNot

    Actively courting openstatus users needing 25+ monitors

    OpenStatus vs OnlineOrNot

Companies that use it

Full analysis

Based on 13+ public sources: Reddit, HN, G2, CVE databases, competitor pages, and openstatus.dev.

Open-source Statuspage alternative: uptime + status pages. Great for dev teams, thin for enterprises.

Methodology

Based on 13+ public sources: Reddit, HN, G2, CVE databases, competitor pages, and openstatus.dev.

Sources

  1. OpenStatus official siteopenstatus.dev
    official
  2. OpenStatus pricing pageopenstatus.dev
    official
  3. openstatusHQ/openstatus on GitHubgithub.com
    official
  4. Show HN: OpenStatusnews.ycombinator.com
    news
  5. Reddit r/opensource: open source Statuspage alternativereddit.com
    review
  6. Product Hunt: openstatusproducthunt.com
    review
  7. Twenty runs its status page on openstatusopenstatus.dev
    official
  8. CVE-2026-5808 — SentinelOne databasesentinelone.com
    security
  9. CVE-2026-90486 — Rapid7rapid7.com
    security
  10. Switch from OpenStatus to OnlineOrNotonlineornot.com
    official
  11. Status.io vs openstatusopenstatus.dev
    official
  12. OpenStatus Pricing 2026 — G2g2.com
    review
  13. Free status page tools 2026 — 247Monitor247monitor.net
    news

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