openstatus review
A flexible monitoring toolkit for infrastructure-as-code teams, with paid plans starting at $30 monthly.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
openstatus is an open-source uptime monitoring and status-page platform for teams responsible for websites, APIs, and services. It suits engineers who want checks represented in infrastructure workflows as well as teams that need public status pages and alert delivery. Hosted SaaS and self-hosted options are available, alongside an API and CLI. Monitoring covers HTTP/HTTPS endpoints, TCP ports, and ICMP ping, with response logs and uptime history for reviewing results.
The Hobby plan is free and includes one monitor, one status page with three components, and a 10-minute minimum check interval. Starter costs $30 per month and expands to 20 monitors, one-minute checks, six regions per monitor, and access to 28 total regions. Pro is $100 per month for 50 monitors, 30-second checks, and all 28 regions per monitor. Scale is $500 per month with the same listed monitor and check limits as Pro, plus 24 months of data retention. Teams choosing between paid tiers should weigh regional coverage and retention against their monitoring volume: Scale's added retention does not increase its listed monitor count.
Assertions can validate status codes, headers, and body text, while latency and timeout thresholds add controls beyond simple availability checks. Status pages link to monitor results, and Terraform support enables monitoring as code. Alert channels include Slack, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, email, SMS, WhatsApp, OpsGenie, PagerDuty, Grafana OnCall, webhooks, and Ntfy. HTTPS certificate validation can catch expired certificates. These capabilities make openstatus a fit for teams wanting configurable checks and code-managed setup; teams seeking a free plan with several monitors or a low-cost paid entry point may find the Hobby limit and $30 Starter threshold restrictive.
openstatus pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Checks HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, and ICMP endpoints across multiple regions
- Assertions and latency thresholds help flag specific response failures
- Terraform, private locations, and status pages support infrastructure workflows
- Where it doesn't
- Hobby is limited to one monitor and a 10-minute minimum check interval
- Starter costs $30 monthly for 20 monitors and one-minute checks
- Scale retains data for 24 months but still lists 50 monitors
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