Instatus vs StillUp

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.

StillUp is a web-based service for monitoring websites and HTTP or HTTPS endpoints, including REST APIs, GraphQL endpoints, health checks, and webhooks. Monitors run every minute on every plan, including Free. StillUp compares each response status with an expected code, defaulting to 200, and reports an outage when the code differs or a request times out after the default 10-second limit. Alerts are available by email, Slack, Discord, and Telegram on all plans, with detection alerts and recovery notices. Public status pages display monitor status, uptime percentages, and active incidents; dashboard users can post timestamped incident updates. Custom domains are available on every plan, with SSL provisioned after CNAME configuration. Free costs nothing for three monitors and seven days of history. Pro costs $9 a month for 50 monitors and 90 days; Business costs $29 a month for 200 monitors and 90 days.