Atlassian Statuspage vs Gatus
Atlassian Statuspage and Gatus are both status page software. Atlassian Statuspage is a commercial product from Atlassian. Gatus is open source under Apache-2.0, with 12k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Atlassian Statuspage when
- A SaaS company wants the familiar status page format customers expect, especially if it uses Atlassian tools.
- Pick Gatus when
- Developers want uptime checks defined as config in Git, with assertions on response content and timing.
Side by side
Hosted status pages for public and private incident communication, with subscriber notifications and component status.
A health dashboard and status page that checks endpoints against conditions defined in YAML, with alerting and incident announcements.
Pricing is high for what it does compared with newer rivals.
Configuration lives in files, with no UI for adding monitors, which suits engineers more than operators.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
Go, Vue, PostgreSQL and SQLite
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
No Wikipedia article of its own
12k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v5.38.0.
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.