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Re: Recommendations for public-facing automated status page?


From: Andrew Langhorn via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 18:00:30 +0100

Atlassian bought statuspage a while ago, so it’s now Atlassian Statuspage.
You can see it in the wild at
https://status.digitalocean.com/. Incident.io is also increasingly popular,
too. Openstatus and cachet are popular OSS systems, but self-hosted.

If your SMS provider supports sending messages after being triggered by
webhook, which Amazon Pinpoint and Twilio do, then Statuspage and others
can be used with your own SMS provider.

On Tue, 4 Aug 2026 at 17:47, Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

This is the specific status page feature we use:

<https://betterstack.com/pricing#monitors>
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Pricing<https://betterstack.com/pricing#monitors>
betterstack.com<https://betterstack.com/pricing#monitors>


 -mel beckman

On Aug 4, 2026, at 9:46 AM, Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org> wrote:

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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