Instatus – Get ready for downtime
❶ Monitor your services ❷ Fix incidents with your team and ❸ Share your status with customers.
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Instatus is an all-in-one platform for monitoring service uptime, managing team incidents, and sharing real-time status updates with customers via customizable status pages.
🚀 Overview
Instatus is a comprehensive SaaS tool designed to help teams handle downtime proactively by combining service monitoring, incident response, and customer communication into one platform.
It solves the fragmentation of DevOps tools—replacing services like Pingdom for monitoring, PagerDuty for incidents, and Atlassian Statuspage for updates—saving costs and simplifying workflows. Built for SaaS companies, DevOps teams, and any service providers who need transparent uptime reporting.
The platform was created to make it easy to "get ready for downtime," enabling faster fixes and better customer trust through real-time sharing.
✨ Key Features
- Service Monitoring: Track availability, performance, and metrics with frequent checks (up to 30s), real-time alerts via email, SMS, calls, and integrations with 20+ tools like Datadog, New Relic, Checkly, PagerDuty, Prometheus.
- Incident Management: Collaborate on fixes with team assignments, on-call rotations, updates via Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Jira, webhooks, API; auto-create incidents from monitors.
- Status Pages: Publish public/private pages with custom domains, subscriber limits up to 25k, auto-posts to X/Twitter, Intercom, Google Chat; import from Statuspage/Freshstatus.
- Upcoming/Experimental: Mac app (Out), mobile app on Google Play, OpenAPI spec for custom integrations.
🛠 Tech Stack
- Frontend: React
- Backend: Node.js
- Hosting: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Other: API, Webhooks, OpenAPI Specification
👥 Who Is This For?
This project is useful for:
- Developers who want to monitor uptime and respond to incidents without multiple tools
- Teams looking for collaborative incident management and customer-facing status pages
- Indie makers building reliable SaaS products with transparent downtime communication
📸 Screenshots / Demo
- Live demo: https://instatus.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/instatushq
🔥 Project Status
- 🟢 Actively building
Last updated: 2026-03-24
❓ FAQ
Is this project free?
Freemium — Free Starter plan (15 monitors, 5 team members, public status page); Pro and Business paid plans with more features, faster checks, custom domains, SMS/calls (pricing starts low, yearly discounts).
Is the source code available?
No — proprietary SaaS, but open-source components like OpenAPI spec, Mac app (Out), UI goodies available on GitHub.
Can I contribute?
Feedback via support chat/email, Twitter @instatus, or issues/PRs on public repos like OpenAPI and goodies; contact for non-profit/open-source project discounts.
📬 Contact & Links
- Website: https://instatus.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/instatushq
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/instatus
- Email: hello@instatus.com
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