Gatus

Who it is for

For developers and small teams. It runs on the web, a computer you control, and Linux. License: Apache-2.0. It is in the DevOps group.

What you pay

Free plan: The Apache-2.0 software is what you run. The README links to a managed service and does not print a price for it. There is no hosted price on file. Run it yourself: Easy. The README's quick start is a Docker container on port 8080. Endpoints, announcements, and maintenance windows live in the config file.

How to switch

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

  What you give up: email subscribers. You only get part of: incident reports with updates, 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. You only get part of: incident reports with updates, charts of your own metrics, and an API to update the page.The README's example is a public status page of the endpoints you configure.Announcements can be archived into a past list. The README calls that incident communication. It is not an incident tied to each component with a thread of updates.Alerts go to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, Discord, Twilio, and similar. The README does not describe a public subscribe form.Maintenance windows are a config block, including per endpoint.You choose the host. The quick start listens on port 8080.Response-time charts for health checks. Not a metric you define, such as users online.There is an API for badges and response-time charts. The page itself comes from the config file, not from posting an incident.

Related alternatives

DevOps alternatives

• Free alternatives to Bitbucket
• Free alternatives to Conductor
• Free alternatives to GitHub
• Free alternatives to Jules
• Free alternatives to Ollama Cloud
• Free alternatives to Ona

Free apps in this group

• Aider: Terminal pair programming that commits each edit to git.
• Bugsink: A smaller Sentry-compatible error store.
• Cline: An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code and the terminal. No inline autocomplete.
• Continue: An Apache-2.0 IDE assistant. The repository is read-only after the Cursor acquisition.
• cState: A Hugo status page. Incidents are markdown files.
• Cursor: A coding editor with Tab autocomplete and an agent. Free is limited. The code is closed.
• Devin: The desktop editor formerly sold as Windsurf. Free includes Tab. The code is closed.
• Errbit: An older Airbrake-compatible error catcher.
• Forgejo: A community forge, GPL-3.0 since v9.
• Gitea: A lightweight Git forge.
• GitHub Copilot: GitHub's coding assistant. Free is capped. The code is not public.
• GitLab Community Edition: The MIT edition of GitLab, without EE.
• GlitchTip: Error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs.
• Highlight: Session replay and errors, with a split license.
• Kener: A status page with incidents, maintenance, and email subscriptions.
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C and C++. The license is MIT. llama-server speaks an OpenAI-style API.
• Ollama: Run open models on your own computer. The license is MIT.
• OneUptime: Status pages plus monitors, incidents, and on-call.
• OpenCode: A terminal and desktop coding agent that can open a GitHub pull request.
• OpenHands: Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center for coding agents.
• Radicle: A peer-to-peer code forge.
• SigNoz: Traces, metrics, and logs in one app.
• SourceHut: Git hosting composed of small services.
• Tabby: A self-hosted completion server. Community is free for up to 5 users.
• Uptime Kuma: Uptime checks, with a public status page of those checks.
• vLLM: An Apache-2.0 model server with an OpenAI-compatible API.

Where we looked

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