Your users shouldn't find out about outages from Twitter
Deploys break. Infrastructure fails. DNS propagates slowly. When your systems go down, your team scrambles to fix the issue while support scrambles to explain it. CheckStatus gives DevOps teams a single pane of glass for communicating infrastructure status — internally and externally.
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The problem
Why DevOps teams need a status page
Communication chaos during incidents
When infrastructure goes down, engineers are debugging while Slack explodes with "is it just me?" messages from every team. Without a centralized status page, you spend as much time explaining the outage as fixing it.
Manual processes that don't scale
Pasting updates into Slack channels, sending email blasts, and updating a wiki page during a P1 incident is error-prone and slow. DevOps teams need an automated, API-driven workflow that fits into their existing toolchain.
No separation between internal and external
Your engineering team needs to see database replication lag and pod crash loops. Your customers need to know "payments are degraded." Sharing a single view with both audiences means either over-sharing technical details or under-communicating to your team.
Built for automation
API-first status updates that fit your workflow
Trigger incidents from your monitoring tools, update component status from CI/CD pipelines, and resolve issues from runbooks — all through the REST API. Available on every plan, including free.
- REST API on all plans for programmatic control
- Webhook integrations for Slack, Teams, and PagerDuty
- Automate incident creation from monitoring alerts
Audience separation
Private pages for your team, public pages for your users
Run a detailed internal status page showing database health, cache hit rates, and deployment status for your engineering team. Keep your public page clean and focused on what end users care about — without exposing internal infrastructure details.
- Password-protected private pages for engineering teams
- Separate public and internal component views
- Custom branding on each page
Planned downtime
Scheduled maintenance that notifies subscribers automatically
Database migrations, Kubernetes upgrades, and infrastructure changes are part of DevOps life. Schedule maintenance windows in advance, specify affected components, and let CheckStatus notify subscribers automatically — so your team can focus on the work, not the communication.
- Schedule maintenance with start and end times
- Automatic subscriber notifications in advance
- Component-level maintenance scoping
By the numbers
The case for proactive incident communication
$5,600
Avg cost per minute of downtime
60%
Fewer support tickets with a status page
95%
Customer retention with transparent comms
79%
Cheaper than StatusPage.io
Pricing comparison
Save thousands vs StatusPage.io
Get the same features DevOps teams need at a fraction of the cost.
StatusPage.io
Atlassian's status page product
$99 /mo per page
- 1 status page
- Custom CSS at $399/mo
- Private pages +$79/mo
- 3 pages = $297/mo
CheckStatus
Everything DevOps teams need
$39 /mo for 3 pages
- Up to 3 status pages included
- Custom CSS included
- Private pages included
- Saves $3,096/year
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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Yes. CheckStatus provides a REST API on all plans, including the free tier. You can integrate it with your CI/CD pipeline, monitoring tools (Datadog, PagerDuty, Grafana), or runbooks to automatically create incidents, update component status, and resolve issues without manual intervention.
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Absolutely. CheckStatus supports private password-protected pages on the Growth plan and above. Run a detailed internal page for your engineering and ops teams while keeping your public-facing page focused on what end users need to know.
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Create a scheduled maintenance event with a start time, end time, and affected components. Subscribers are notified in advance, and the status page automatically reflects the maintenance window — no manual toggling required.
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Yes. Create individual components for each part of your infrastructure — databases, load balancers, CDN, API gateway, authentication service, and more. Each component has its own status and incident history, giving your team and users granular visibility.
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Yes. CheckStatus is hosted on completely independent infrastructure from your systems. When your servers, cloud provider, or CDN has issues, your status page stays online — which is the whole point of having one.
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Yes! Our free plan includes 1 status page, up to 5 components, email notifications, and full API access. It's a great way to get started with incident communication before upgrading to Growth or Pro for custom domains, private pages, and more components.
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