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Cachet — open source alternative

Open source status page system for outages and scheduled maintenance.

Strengths

  • Markdown incident updates with timeline support.
  • Subscribable via email and webhooks.
  • Simple PHP/MySQL stack.

Weaknesses

  • Project has had stop-start maintenance cycles over the years.
  • Metrics features are thin versus paid status pages.
  • UI lacks the polish of hosted competitors.
License: BSD-3-Clause Self-host difficulty: 2/5 Self-host only

Official site · Source on GitHub

Ad slot — OSS middle

Cachet is used as an alternative to

Statuspage

Atlassian's hosted public status pages.

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