Instatus
Instatus helps teams monitor services, coordinate incident response, and publish status information for customers.
What Instatus is
Instatus helps teams monitor services, coordinate incident response, and publish status information for 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, or Asia, with round-robin location selection. Teams can collaborate on incidents and set on-call schedules. Status pages may be public, private, or limited to a selected audience, with components, incidents, maintenance, and notices. Integrations include Checkly, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Zapier, and an API. Private-page access can use email login, Google SSO, IP allowlists, shared passwords, secure links, or SAML SSO. Data is encrypted in transit with HTTPS, and database backups are encrypted using GPG; live database data is not encrypted at rest. Instatus says it has not completed an SOC audit and is working on a PCI compliance self-assessment. The free Starter plan includes 15 monitors and two-minute checks; Pro costs $20 a month.
Good
- Monitors websites, APIs, hosts, ports, cron jobs, and DNS.
- Checks can run across four regions.
- Supports team incident collaboration and on-call schedules.
- Offers public, private, and selected-audience status pages.
- Free Starter plan includes 15 monitors.
Watch out
- Live database data is not encrypted at rest.
- Instatus has not completed an SOC audit.
- PCI compliance self-assessment is still in progress.
Who it suits
Instatus suits teams that need to monitor websites or infrastructure, coordinate incident response, and communicate service status. Its page options include public, private, and selected-audience status pages.
Verdict
Instatus combines service monitoring, incident coordination, and customer-facing status pages. The free Starter plan has 15 monitors, while Pro costs $20 a month.
Plans and prices
From Instatus's own pricing page, checked 1 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | 15 monitors · 2 min checks · email alerts · 5 team members · 2 on-call members · public status page · 200 subscribers · free forever |
| Pro | $20 a month | 50 monitors · 30 sec checks · email & SMS alerts · 50 team members · 20 on-call members · public status page · 1+ custom domain · 5,000 subscribers · monthly |
| Business | $300 a month | 1,000 monitors · 30 sec checks · SMS & calls alerts · 50 on-call members · SAML SSO · all status pages · 3+ custom domains · 25,000 subscribers · monthly |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | SCIM Directory Sync · priority customer support · 99.99% uptime SLA · multiple SSO connections · custom contracts · custom policies · contact sales |
The facts
Each one read from Instatus's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- The REST-style API is available under https://api.instatus.com and authenticates with a bearer API token.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Data deletion
- After account cancellation, content is inaccessible immediately and permanently deleted from servers and logs within 30 days.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Data hosting
- Instatus says its primary data centers are in the United States on Amazon AWS, with daily backups stored in multiple locations.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Incident response
- Teams can collaborate on incidents and set on-call schedules to notify the right person.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Incident updates
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Integrations include monitoring and notification services such as Checkly, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Google Chat, Zapier and API.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Maintenance scheduling
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Monitoring
- Monitors check websites, APIs, cron jobs, hosts, ports and DNS records and track availability and performance over time.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Monitor locations
- Checks can run from the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia using round robin location selection.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Paid from
- 20checked 19 Sep 2026
- Private-page access
- Private pages support email login, Google SSO, IP allowlists, a shared password, secure links and SAML SSO.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Private status page
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Product purpose
- Instatus helps users monitor services, fix incidents with their team, and share status with customers.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Security audit status
- Instatus states that it has not completed an SOC audit and is working on a PCI compliance self-assessment.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Security encryption
- Data is encrypted in transit with HTTPS and database backups are encrypted using GPG, while live database data is not encrypted at rest.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Status pages
- Status pages can be public, private or select-audience pages and can show components, incidents, maintenances and notices.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Subscriber channels
- Status-page subscriptions support email, SMS, Slack, Teams, webhooks, X, RSS and more.checked 1 Oct 2026
- Support
- Instatus lists support at [email protected] and offers priority customer support on Enterprise.checked 1 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
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