GitHub statuses

Judgement

What it is

List, course or other material

What it does

A scraped historical dataset and site documenting GitHub's past status incidents, built with Flat Data.

Adopt it when

You want data on GitHub's reliability history, for example for an SLA discussion.

Watch out

A dataset, not a tool you deploy.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Cloud service

Built with

JavaScript

How established

Established: started 4 years ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: GitHub statuses → V8 → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

Open-source alternatives to GitHub statuses

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   Gatus TwiN

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   Checkmate is an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to track and monitor server hardware, uptime, response times, and incidents in real-time with beautiful visualizations. Don't be shy, join here: https://discord.com/invite/NAb6H3UTjK :)

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   Openstatus openstatusHQ

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   Complete system Usable You need a public status page plus synthetic uptime checks and prefer an open-source vendor.

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   cState cstate

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   TinyStatus harsxv

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   Developer tool Usable You want the smallest possible status page you can run from cron.

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Commercial status page tools

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