OpenStatus

Open source synthetic monitoring.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Supports synthetic API monitoring and real user monitoring with an embedded JS snippet. Monitors can be made public for status transparency. Users can subscribe to status pages. Supports alerting and notifications of issues via Discord, Slack, SMS, PagerDuty. Open source - self-host or use their cloud service.

Tradeoffs

No docs for how to self-host other than running the dev environment locally.

Is OpenStatus a fit?

Based on Console’s review published on 2024-07-04. Summary updated .

Who it’s for

Developers who need synthetic and real user monitoring should consider OpenStatus

Why consider it

OpenStatus supports synthetic API monitoring and real user monitoring

Keep in mind

OpenStatus lacks documentation for self-hosting outside of the local dev environment

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