Self-Hosted Alternatives to StatusPage.io
Why Replace StatusPage.io?
StatusPage.io charges based on subscriber count — the more users you notify about incidents, the more you pay. The free tier caps at 100 subscribers and 2 team members. The Hobby plan ($29/month) raises that to 250 subscribers. Business-scale deployments run $399–$1,499/month. For a tool that fundamentally displays whether your services are up or down, that pricing is hard to justify.
Updated February 2026: Verified with latest Docker images and configurations.
Atlassian acquired StatusPage in 2016, and it now sits alongside Jira and Opsgenie in their incident management stack. That tight coupling is either a feature or vendor lock-in, depending on your perspective. If you don’t use the Atlassian ecosystem, you’re paying a premium for integration you’ll never use.
Self-hosted status pages eliminate per-subscriber pricing entirely. Your status page serves unlimited visitors at the cost of the server it runs on.
Best Alternatives
Gatus — Best Overall Replacement
Gatus is a developer-oriented health dashboard that monitors endpoints and displays results on a clean status page. Configuration is a single YAML file. It supports HTTP, TCP, DNS, ICMP, and SSH checks with configurable conditions — you can assert on response time, status code, body content, and certificate expiration.
Alerting integrates with Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, Twilio, email, and more. The status page auto-generates from your endpoint definitions, no separate configuration needed.
| Feature | StatusPage.io | Gatus |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $29–$1,499 | $0 (self-hosted) |
| Subscriber limit | 100–25,000 | Unlimited |
| Active monitoring | No (manual updates) | Yes (automated checks) |
| Alerting | Email, SMS, webhook | Slack, Discord, PagerDuty, email, SMS, webhook |
| Configuration | Web UI | YAML file |
| Custom domain | Yes (paid plans) | Yes (reverse proxy) |
| API | REST API | REST API |
services:
gatus:
image: ghcr.io/twin/gatus:v5.35.0
container_name: gatus
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "8080:8080"
volumes:
- ./config:/config
environment:
- GATUS_CONFIG_PATH=/config/config.yaml[Read our full guide: How to Self-Host Gatus]
Upptime — Best for GitHub-Native Teams
Upptime takes a fundamentally different approach — it runs entirely on GitHub infrastructure. Monitoring happens via GitHub Actions (every 5 minutes), incidents are tracked as GitHub Issues, and the status page is hosted on GitHub Pages. Zero servers required.
This makes Upptime genuinely free for public repositories. The trade-off is that you’re dependent on GitHub’s infrastructure, and customization is limited to what GitHub Pages supports.
Best for: Teams already on GitHub who want zero infrastructure overhead and don’t need advanced alerting.
[Read our full guide: How to Self-Host Upptime]
Statping-ng — Best Full-Featured Option
Statping-ng is the actively maintained fork of the original Statping project. It provides a polished web dashboard with built-in monitoring, notifications, and a public-facing status page. The Docker image is only ~20MB.
It monitors HTTP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and gRPC endpoints. Notifications support Slack, Discord, Telegram, email, webhooks, and more. The web UI lets non-technical team members manage incidents without editing config files.
services:
statping-ng:
image: adamboutcher/statping-ng:v0.93.0
container_name: statping-ng
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- "8080:8080"
volumes:
- statping_data:/app
environment:
- DB_CONN=sqlite
volumes:
statping_data:Best for: Teams that want a web UI for managing incidents and don’t want to edit YAML files.
Migration Guide
StatusPage.io data export is available through Atlassian’s admin panel. Export your component list, incident history, and subscriber list.
- Export components — note each component name and its monitoring URL
- Export incident history — for reference during migration (most self-hosted tools don’t support incident history import)
- Configure monitoring — add each component as a monitored endpoint in your self-hosted tool
- Set up alerting — configure notification channels (Slack, email, etc.)
- Update your CNAME — point
status.yourdomain.comto your new self-hosted status page - Notify subscribers — email your subscriber list about the new status page URL
Subscriber notification is the main gap — self-hosted tools typically don’t have built-in subscriber management. Use your existing email list or newsletter tool to send status updates.
Cost Comparison
| StatusPage.io (Business) | Self-Hosted (Gatus) | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $399/month | ~$5/month (VPS) |
| Annual cost | $4,788/year | ~$60/year |
| 3-year cost | $14,364 | ~$180 |
| Subscriber limit | 5,000 | Unlimited |
| Monitors | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Custom domain | Included | Via reverse proxy |
What You Give Up
StatusPage.io’s subscriber management is the biggest loss. Self-hosted tools don’t natively manage email subscriber lists or send mass incident notifications. You’ll need a separate tool (Listmonk, newsletter service) for that.
Atlassian’s integration with Jira and Opsgenie is seamless. If your team relies on Jira for incident tracking, replacing StatusPage.io means building that integration yourself or using webhook-based alternatives.
The managed infrastructure is also gone — StatusPage.io stays up even when your infrastructure is down (since it’s hosted separately). Self-hosted status pages go down with your server unless you host them on separate infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can self-hosted status pages handle subscriber notifications?
Not natively in most tools. StatusPage.io’s main differentiator is subscriber management — email/SMS updates to incident subscribers. Gatus, Upptime, and Statping-ng focus on monitoring and display. For subscriber notifications, pair your status page with Listmonk or another email tool. Create a “status updates” mailing list and send incident emails through it.
Will my status page stay up during an outage?
Only if you host it on separate infrastructure from your main services. StatusPage.io is hosted on Atlassian’s infrastructure, so it stays up when your servers go down. For self-hosted status pages, deploy on a separate VPS in a different region, or use Upptime (runs on GitHub Pages — separate from your infrastructure entirely).
Can I use a custom domain for my self-hosted status page?
Yes. All three alternatives support custom domains through a reverse proxy (Nginx, Caddy, Traefik). Point status.yourdomain.com to your monitoring server, configure SSL, and you have a branded status page. Upptime uses GitHub Pages with custom domain support — configure it in your repo settings.
How do I display historical uptime data?
Gatus tracks and displays uptime history automatically — its status page shows response time graphs and uptime percentages over time. Statping-ng also tracks historical data in its dashboard. Upptime generates uptime badges and historical graphs in the GitHub Pages site. All three provide the core “was it up or down?” history that StatusPage.io offers.
Can I integrate with PagerDuty or Opsgenie for on-call alerting?
Yes. Gatus supports PagerDuty, Slack, Discord, email, Twilio SMS, and custom webhooks as alert targets. Statping-ng integrates with Slack, Discord, Telegram, email, and webhooks. For PagerDuty or Opsgenie specifically, use webhook integration — both accept inbound webhooks for incident creation.
How do I handle maintenance windows?
Gatus supports maintenance windows in its YAML configuration — define time ranges when alerts are suppressed. Statping-ng allows setting scheduled maintenance through its web UI. Upptime handles it through GitHub Issues labeled as maintenance. None match StatusPage.io’s polished maintenance scheduling UI, but the functionality is equivalent.
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