Gatus vs Openstatus
Gatus and Openstatus are both status page software. Gatus is open source under Apache-2.0, with 12k GitHub stars. Openstatus is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.2k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Gatus when
- Developers want uptime checks defined as config in Git, with assertions on response content and timing.
- Pick Openstatus when
- You need a public status page plus synthetic uptime checks and prefer an open-source vendor.
Side by side
A health dashboard and status page that checks endpoints against conditions defined in YAML, with alerting and incident announcements.
A status page and uptime monitoring tool with checks from multiple regions, incident updates and notifications.
Configuration lives in files, with no UI for adding monitors, which suits engineers more than operators.
AGPL license, no tagged releases, and self-hosting relies on services like Turso and Tinybird.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Go, Vue, PostgreSQL and SQLite
TypeScript, Go, Turso and Tinybird
Open source, Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
12k GitHub stars
9.2k GitHub stars
Established: started 7 years ago, latest release v5.38.0.
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.