Instatus

Platform

Status pages with uptime monitoring and on-call incident response

Price: Free tier, then paid
Access: API key

About

Hosted status pages that customers can subscribe to, plus website, API, cron and port monitoring and on-call alerting. The free plan includes 15 monitors with 2-minute checks and a public page; custom domains and private pages need a paid plan.

What you can do with it

Publish a public or private status page and notify subscribers of incidents
Monitor websites, APIs and cron jobs every 30 seconds from several regions
Create and update incidents and maintenance windows through the REST API

Get started

Create a status page and copy its page ID
Create an API key in Developer settings

Example

curl -X POST "https://api.instatus.com/v1/$INSTATUS_PAGE_ID/incidents" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $INSTATUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name":"Website outage","message":"We are investigating an issue with the website",
       "components":["'"$COMPONENT_ID"'"],"status":"INVESTIGATING","notify":true,
       "statuses":[{"id":"'"$COMPONENT_ID"'","status":"MAJOROUTAGE"}]}'

Details

Hosting: Hosted service
Available in: Worldwide
MCP server: None