Re: Recommendations for public-facing automated status page?

[Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

They actually have a zillion service offerings, but what you’re looking for is the “up time monitoring“ Service
-mel via cell

> On Aug 4, 2026, at 9:43 AM, Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> We use BetterStack.com.  They do offsite Ping monitoring and then reflect that in your custom status page that they 
> build and host. One thing I like about it is even if we have a major outage, customers can still get this Status page 
> since it’s hosted offsite. There’s not really a way for you to feed your own internal probes to it, but you can put 
> up bulletins and notices. Our users really like it. And BetterStack has a permanent no-cost subscription for a small 
> number of sensors, I think six or seven,  so you can easily try it out for free. But you’ll quickly discover that you 
> want to monitor more, and it’s very reasonably priced.
>
> -mel
>
> > On Aug 4, 2026, at 8:34 AM, David Hubbard via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, curious if anyone has made use of an automated status page system that’s public-facing, and you both like 
> > it and find it reasonably priced?
> >
> > This would be one of those systems that makes use of API’s to pull, or we can push to it, to reflect the nearly real 
> > time state of circuits, systems, API’s, etc.  I’ve found numerous options out there, but most seem to have 
> > ridiculous pricing around allowing people to subscribe to the status page, or even worse if you begin to make use of 
> > SMS notifications.  That SMS pricing is often two orders of magnitude higher for the same quantity of transactional 
> > texts as you’d pay to have them sent through a dedicated SMS provider.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David
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