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Self-Hosting Uptime Robot Alternative: StatusPage and Monitoring

Create a public status page for your services. Show uptime history, incident reports, and current status — all self-hosted.

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Why a Status Page?


A status page shows your users (or clients) the current state of your services. When something goes down, they check the status page instead of flooding your inbox.


Options


Uptime Kuma

Primarily a monitoring tool, but includes a beautiful public status page feature.

  • Status page: Built-in
  • Monitoring: 20+ types
  • Notifications: 90+ channels
  • Best for: Combined monitoring + status page

    • Gatus

    Health check and status page focused on developer-defined conditions.

  • Define conditions in YAML
  • Custom health check logic
  • Beautiful status page
  • Best for: Teams with complex health check requirements

    • Cachet

    Dedicated status page system.

  • Incident management
  • Scheduled maintenance
  • Subscriber notifications
  • Component groups
  • Best for: Dedicated status page needs

    • What to Show


    Components

  • Website/App
  • API
  • Database
  • Authentication
  • Email

    • For Each Component

  • Current status (Operational, Degraded, Outage)
  • Response time graph
  • Uptime percentage (30/90 days)

    • Incidents

  • Current incidents with updates
  • Incident history
  • Scheduled maintenance

    • Deployment


    Deploy Uptime Kuma on TinyPod (it includes status pages). Configure monitors for your services and create a public status page at status.yourdomain.com.


    Resources: 1 CPU, 512 MB RAM.