Cachet review
A free, self-hosted way to publish incidents, maintenance, and service health.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Cachet is an open-source status page system for organizations that want to communicate outages, incidents, planned maintenance, and service health to customers or stakeholders. It can be self-hosted on an organization's infrastructure and is aimed at use cases ranging from personal projects to enterprises. Its core appeal is straightforward: publish operational status information without a paid product plan, while retaining control over where the status page runs.
The feature set covers the basics of a public status page, including incident reporting and updates, planned maintenance scheduling, and status components. Custom system metrics and charts add a way to present service health alongside incident notices. Pages can be customized and localized, and the JSON API supports automation. Two-factor authentication is also included. The integration and platform picture is narrower: the listed integration is the JSON API, and the available platform options are web and self-hosted. Cachet suits teams that value open-source control and these core publishing features more than a broad connected ecosystem.
Cachet is free to self-host, with no official paid plan identified, so there are no tier differences to weigh. The important trade-off is operational readiness: the Cachet 3.x rebuild is under active development and its core repository says it is not completely ready for production use. That makes it a more suitable fit for evaluation, personal projects, or teams able to assess and manage the software themselves than for organizations that need a clearly production-ready managed service. Teams seeking simpler vendor-operated hosting or wider integration coverage should consider an alternative.
Cachet pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Publish incident updates and schedule planned maintenance.
- Track status components with custom metrics and charts.
- Customize and localize pages, with a JSON API and two-factor authentication.
- Where it doesn't
- Self-hosting means managing the service on your own infrastructure.
- The Cachet 3.x rebuild is still in development and not production-ready.
- Its listed integration coverage is limited to the JSON API.
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