cState

Who it is for

For developers and small teams. It runs on the web and a computer you control. License: MIT. It is in the DevOps group.

What you pay

Free plan: The MIT-licensed theme is free. You pay the host you use for the built site, if that host charges. There is no hosted price on file. Run it yourself: Easy. The README's path is a Hugo site you build and host, including on your own server. It asks for Hugo 0.80 or newer starting with cState v5.

How to switch

• Compared with Statuspage. Its price on file: Public Business is $399 a month.

  What you give up: email subscribers and scheduled maintenance. You only get part of: charts of your own metrics and an API to update the page.

  Free alternatives to Statuspage

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

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  Instead of Statuspage7 of 7 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: email subscribers and scheduled maintenance. You only get part of: charts of your own metrics and an API to update the page.The built site is the public page. Systems are the components.An incident is a markdown file with a title, date, severity, and the systems it affects.The README says cState does not send email notifications.The README does not describe a maintenance schedule.You host the built site on the domain you choose.The README describes statistics for how long an incident lasted. It also says cState does not monitor services by itself.The README describes a read-only API, RSS, and badges. You change the page by editing files, not by posting an incident to an API.

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Where we looked

• https://github.com/cstate/cstate/blob/master/README.md
• https://github.com/cstate/cstate/blob/master/LICENSE.md