Instatus brings service monitoring, incident coordination, and customer status pages into one tool. Its checks cover websites, APIs, cron jobs, hosts, ports, and DNS records, tracking availability and performance over time. Checks can run from the United States, Canada, Europe, or Asia, with round-robin location selection. Teams can collaborate on incidents and arrange on-call schedules to alert the right person. Status pages can be public, private, or limited to a chosen audience, and can display components, incidents, maintenance, and notices. Integrations include monitoring and messaging services such as Checkly, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, and Zapier. Private pages offer several access controls, including email login, Google or SAML SSO, IP allowlists, passwords, and secure links. A free Starter plan includes 15 monitors and two-minute checks. Pro costs $20.00 USD per month and includes 50 monitors and 30-second checks; higher plans are also listed.
Who it is for
Instatus suits teams that need to monitor services, coordinate incident response, and publish status updates to customers. Its different page access options may fit teams that need public or restricted status information.
What is good
- Checks websites, APIs, hosts, ports, and DNS records
- Monitoring checks run from four regions
- Supports public, private, and select-audience pages
- Free Starter plan includes 15 monitors
- Offers incident collaboration and on-call schedules
What to know first
- Live database data is not encrypted at rest
- Instatus has not completed an SOC audit
- Pro costs $20.00 USD per month
Verdict
Instatus combines service checks, incident coordination, and customizable status pages, with a free Starter tier and paid options. Teams handling sensitive data should note that live database data is not encrypted at rest and the SOC audit is incomplete.
Instatus plans and pricing
All plansCompared on status page software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Paid from
- $20/mo
- Custom domain
- Yes
- Private status page
- Yes
- Incident updates
- Yes
- Maintenance scheduling
- Yes
- Subscriber channels
- multi-channel
