Instatus vs StatusEntry

Instatus helps teams monitor services, coordinate incident response, and share status information with customers. Its monitors check websites, APIs, cron jobs, hosts, ports, and DNS records, tracking availability and performance over time. Checks can run from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia using round-robin location selection. Teams can collaborate on incidents and set on-call schedules to alert the appropriate person. Status pages may be public, private, or limited to a selected audience, and can show components, incidents, maintenance, and notices. Private-page access options include email login, Google SSO, IP allowlists, shared passwords, secure links, and SAML SSO. Integrations include Checkly, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Zapier, and API access; the REST-style API uses bearer-token authentication. Starter is free and includes 15 monitors with two-minute checks. Pro costs $20 a month and includes 50 monitors with 30-second checks. Live database data is not encrypted at rest, and Instatus says it has not completed an SOC audit.

StatusEntry is a hosted status page and incident communication tool for businesses. It lets teams share service status with public audiences and employees through a hosted page and communication channels including email, webhooks, Slack, and Twitter. Teams can schedule maintenance, notify subscribers and employees, and create a maintenance-impact incident for monitoring. The service shows uptime history and offers an embeddable status badge that displays the latest status on hover and links to the public page. Its API supports listing, retrieving, creating, updating, and deleting incidents; documented states run from investigating to resolved, with impact values from none to critical. Every listed pricing tier includes a subdomain with SSL. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one user, two services, and unlimited status updates. Startup is $9.99 a month, Business is $19.99 a month, and Enterprise is $39.99 a month. A 30-day trial provides enterprise features, requires no credit card, and can be followed by the free package without a time limit.