Instatus vs Statuslane

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.

Statuslane is a hosted status page, uptime monitor, and incident communications service for operators and software teams. Users can create a page on a Statuslane subdomain, and monitoring supports HTTP and TCP checks with automatic incident drafting after a failed check. Notifications include email, Slack, webhooks, RSS, and SMS, with double opt-in and one-click unsubscribe. Statuslane also provides a public API for incidents, an embeddable badge, and RSS and Atom feeds. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one public page, five monitors checked every five minutes, and 100 email subscribers. Starter costs €15 a month, billed monthly, adding a custom domain with automatic TLS, ten one-minute monitors, unlimited email subscribers, and removed branding. Growth costs €39 a month; Scale costs €89 a month. Paid plans include a 14-day trial without a card.