Yes: Business and up
Signed SLA statements
Each period's attainment, signed and checkable by anyone without an account.
Compare
Status pages compared, including the record behind them.
Most status pages show what someone posted. Observer also keeps a measured record of every incident and signed SLA statements your customers can check.
Comparisons
Who does what, at a glance.
Ten tools on the same 9 dimensions. The record customers can check comes first, then how each page runs.
| Dimension | Observer9 of 9 | Statuspage0 of 9 | Better Stack0 of 9 | Instatus1 of 9 | UptimeRobot0 of 9 | OpenStatus3 of 9 | OneUptime2 of 9 | incident.io0 of 9 | Statuspal1 of 9 | Opsgenie0 of 9 | Grafana Cloud2 of 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The record | |||||||||||
| Signed SLA statements | Yes: Pro plan | No: not listed | Partly: SLA reports | No: not listed | Partly: uptime reports | No: not listed | Partly: SLA tracking | No: not listed | No: not listed | No: no status page | Partly: SLO dashboards |
| Per-customer status | Yes: from Pro | Partly: separate pricing | Partly: private pages | Partly: select audience | No: one verdict per page | No: one verdict per page | Partly: public and private | Partly: Enterprise | Partly: Enterprise | No: no status page | No: no status page |
| AI updates from evidence | Yes: drafts, you publish | No: not listed | Partly: AI SRE, post-mortems | No: not listed | No: not listed | Yes: agent drafts | No: not listed | Partly: AI features | No: not listed | No: no status page | No: no status page |
| Incident evidence export | Yes: signed JSON + PDF | No: not listed | Partly: CSV export | No: not listed | Partly: through the API | Partly: audit log export | No: not listed | No: not listed | No: not listed | No: not listed | No: not listed |
| The mechanics | |||||||||||
| What drives status | Yes: metric + threshold | No: manual | Partly: uptime checks | Partly: manual + monitors | Partly: monitor checks | Partly: synthetic checks | Partly: its own monitors | No: incidents | Partly: checks + integrations | No: no status page | No: no status page |
| Built-in monitoring | Yes: telemetry + probes | No: none | Partly: external checks | Partly: uptime monitors | Partly: core product | Partly: 28 regions | Yes: full platform | No: alert intake | Partly: HTTP and TCP | No: alert intake | Yes: full stack |
| Signal source & data locality | Yes: inside your network | No: no first-party signal | Partly: public endpoints | Partly: external checks | Partly: public endpoints | Partly: external probes | Partly: send it your data | Partly: your alerting tools | Partly: external checks | Partly: your alerting tools | Partly: send it your data |
| Pricing model | Yes: flat per tier | Partly: tiered by subscribers | Partly: modular add-ons | Yes: flat tiers | Partly: per monitor, per seat | Yes: self-host or hosted | Partly: per user + usage | Partly: per user | Yes: flat tiers | Partly: per seat, end of sale | Partly: usage + per user |
| Open source & engineer surface | Yes: agent, Apache 2.0 | No: closed source | No: closed source | No: closed source | No: closed source | Yes: AGPL-3.0 | Yes: Apache 2.0 | No: closed source | No: closed source | No: closed source | Yes: AGPL-3.0 core |
Yes: does itPartly: partlyNo: does notMethod: each answer is graded against a status page with a record customers can check, using the vendor's own public pages. Checked .
Checked against each vendor's own site. Each comparison lists every page it used.
Beyond the page
The record behind the status page.
The reporting customers, procurement and auditors ask for, built on the same measurements.
Yes: Business and up
Reliability Center
Public commitments and attainment, and a private portal per customer.
Yes: Pro and up
Executive summary
Attainment, risk and MTTR across every service, for the board.
Yes: Starter and up
SLOs and error budgets
Budgets read from the same metrics, with burn alerts.
Yes: Starter and up
Customer updates from evidence
AI drafts the update from what was measured; a person publishes.
Yes: Pro and up
Status per customer
One probe, each customer judged against their own SLO.
Each tool
One page per comparison.
manual
Statuspage
Atlassian's status page. Components change by hand, by email automation or through the API.
Observer vs Statuspage
uptime checks
Better Stack
Uptime checks, on-call and a status page in one bundle.
Observer vs Better Stack
manual + monitors
Instatus
A fast, well-designed status page with built-in uptime monitors.
Observer vs Instatus
monitor checks
UptimeRobot
Monitoring first: it pings endpoints and adds a status page on top.
Observer vs UptimeRobot
synthetic checks
OpenStatus
Open-source, monitoring-as-code status pages with multi-region checks.
Observer vs OpenStatus
its own monitors
OneUptime
An open-source, all-in-one observability platform you run.
Observer vs OneUptime
incidents
incident.io
Incident management with status pages built in. Status follows the incident.
Observer vs incident.io
checks + integrations
Statuspal
A hosted status page with simple HTTP and TCP checks and monitoring integrations.
Observer vs Statuspal
no status page
Opsgenie
Atlassian's on-call and alerting tool, past end of sale. Not a status page.
Observer vs Opsgenie
no status page
Grafana Cloud
The observability stack many teams already run. No status page of its own.
Observer vs Grafana Cloud