Best Open-Source Status Page Tools 2026: 6 Options Compared

A status page tells customers whether your service is down, and the main choice is where it runs. If your own server goes down, a page hosted on it goes down too, so some of the best options here are built to live elsewhere. Upptime runs on GitHub Actions and publishes to GitHub Pages, which costs nothing and survives your outage. Gatus and Kener are lightweight self-hosted services configured in YAML or a small database, good for engineers who like keeping monitors in version control. Uptime Kuma is the most popular friendly dashboard, with a clean UI, notifications and optional public status pages, but it is a monitor first and a customer-facing page second. OpenStatus and OneUptime go further, adding incident updates, subscriber emails and on-call features, with hosted plans next to the open code. The trade-off is where the monitoring probes sit: a probe on the same network as your app cannot see an outage that is outside it, so run at least one probe from a different provider. Also check notification channels and whether customers can subscribe by email, since a page nobody is told about does little. Start with the smallest tool that meets those two checks.

Uptime Kuma

MIT-licensed monitor with a polished dashboard, many notification types and public status pages. Self-host with Docker; subscriber email updates for customers are not its focus.

Price: Free (Free: open-source under MIT; self-hosted, no paid plan on the license page) (Uptime Kuma pricing, checked 2026-10-23).

Platforms and license: Linux, Docker. MIT (open source) (license source).

Project activity: 93k GitHub stars · latest release 2.5.8 (Oct 26, 2026) · last commit Oct 28, 2026

Best for: Teams who want monitors and a simple page together.

OneUptime

Apache-2.0 platform with status pages, incidents and on-call. The hosted free plan has 1 status page and 100 subscribers; the Growth tier starts at $22 per user per month.

Price: Free (hosted free plan: 1 status page, 100 subscribers; Community Edition self-hosted); paid from $22 per user/month (Growth; billing term not stated on page) (OneUptime pricing, checked 2026-10-22).

Platforms and license: Web, Self-hosted. Apache-2.0 (ee/ directory under a separate license) (open source) (license source).

Project activity: 7.8k GitHub stars · latest release 14.0.94 (Oct 27, 2026) · last commit Oct 27, 2026

Best for: Companies that want status pages tied to incident handling.

Worth knowing: Community Edition includes on-call schedules and escalation policies. SMS and calls are $0.10 each unless you bring your own Twilio.

Gatus

Apache-2.0 service configured in YAML, with health checks, alerting and a status page. It has no web editor, which suits infrastructure-as-code teams.

Price: Free (Free: open-source under Apache-2.0; no paid plan on the license page) (Gatus pricing, checked 2026-10-24).

Platforms and license: Docker, Linux. Apache-2.0 (open source) (license source).

Project activity: 12.4k GitHub stars · latest release v5.37.0 (Sep 24, 2026) · last commit Oct 26, 2026

Best for: Engineers who keep monitoring in Git.

Upptime

MIT-licensed monitor built on GitHub Actions and Pages, so the page lives off your own infrastructure. Checks run roughly every 5 minutes, and you depend on GitHub.

Price: Free (Free open-source software) (Upptime pricing, checked 2026-10-23).

Platforms and license: GitHub Actions and GitHub Pages. MIT (open source) (license source).

Project activity: 17.2k GitHub stars · latest release v2.0.0 (Oct 13, 2020) · last commit Oct 27, 2026

Best for: Free page that survives your own outage.

OpenStatus

AGPL-3.0 monitoring and status page project with a hosted version. Check its cloud plan limits before relying on the free tier, since pricing was not captured here.

Price: Free (Free: open-source under AGPL-3.0; no paid plan on the license page) (OpenStatus pricing, checked 2026-10-24).

Platforms and license: Web, Docker. AGPL-3.0 (open source) (license source).

Project activity: 9.2k GitHub stars · last commit Oct 27, 2026

Best for: Teams that want a hosted option with open code.

Kener

MIT-licensed status page system that can be self-hosted with a small footprint. It is newer than Uptime Kuma, so expect a smaller community and fewer integrations.

Price: Free (Free: open-source under MIT; no paid plan on the license page) (Kener pricing, checked 2026-10-24).

Platforms and license: Docker, Web. MIT (open source) (license source).

Project activity: 5.2k GitHub stars · latest release v4.1.10 (Oct 26, 2026) · last commit Oct 27, 2026

Best for: Small projects that want a clean, themed page.

Which one to pick

• You want the page to stay up when your servers are down: Upptime
• You want a friendly dashboard and run Docker already: Uptime Kuma
• You want monitors defined in a config file: Gatus
• You need incident updates and on-call in the same tool: OneUptime