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Open source

Pro, free for open source.

Open source projects that qualify get Observer's Pro plan at no cost. Tell us about the project and we reply to every application.

The offer

The Pro plan, free.

The Pro plan

Free

The same plan teams pay $79 a month for, at no cost to the project.

Renewal

Yearly

We review the project once a year and renew it while it still qualifies.

What Pro includes

Everything on the plan.

On top of what every plan has: every source, the public page, ten languages and the audit log.

  • 3 status pages
  • 10 agents
  • 500 metric definitions
  • Unlimited SLOs
  • 5 custom domains
  • 50,000 subscribers
  • 90d metric history
  • 25 customer-scoped pages
  • SLA reports per customer
  • Executive dashboard
  • Alert integrations
  • Auto-incident creation
  • Standard support

The terms

Six plain conditions.

Licence

An OSI-approved licence.

The project is released under a licence the Open Source Initiative has approved, such as MIT, Apache 2.0 or the GPL.

Repository

A public repository.

Anyone can read the source code and its history.

Use

The page is for the project.

The status page covers the open source project and the services it runs for its community. It is not for a commercial product or a paid hosted service.

Renewal

Free Pro, renewed yearly.

Each year we check that the project still qualifies, then renew it.

Listing

Named only with your permission.

We may list the project as an Observer user, but only if you say yes.

Either side

Can end it at any time.

If it ends, the organisation moves to the Free plan, or to a paid plan if you choose one.

Apply

Tell us about the project.

Seven questions, one of them optional. We reply to every application.

A few sentences: the services behind the project, and who reads its status page.

A rough number is fine.

Privacy

We use what you send only to assess your application and to contact you about the program. It is stored in our database, held in the EEA and the UK, and sent to our team through our email provider. We delete applications after 24 months, or sooner if you ask at [email protected]. See our privacy policy.

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