Gatus vs Instatus
Gatus and Instatus are both status page software. Gatus is open source under Apache-2.0, with 12k GitHub stars. Instatus is a commercial product from Instatus.
Which to pick
- Pick Gatus when
- Developers want uptime checks defined as config in Git, with assertions on response content and timing.
- Pick Instatus when
- A startup wants a good-looking status page cheaply.
Side by side
A health dashboard and status page that checks endpoints against conditions defined in YAML, with alerting and incident announcements.
Fast, low-cost hosted status pages with monitoring, subscriber notifications and integrations.
Configuration lives in files, with no UI for adding monitors, which suits engineers more than operators.
It is a small vendor with fewer enterprise features.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
Go, Vue, PostgreSQL and SQLite
Not published
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Instatus
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
12k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v5.38.0.
Not known
Other comparisons
More status page tools
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.