Alternatives to Sorry™

A hosted status page service for posting incidents, scheduled maintenance and product updates to subscribers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

The original

  • Sorry™

    A hosted status page service for posting incidents, scheduled maintenance and product updates to subscribers.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Sorry™.

  • Statuspage

    Atlassian's hosted service for publishing status pages and notifying users about incidents and maintenance.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Statuspage is Atlassian's freemium service with email and text message subscriber alerts and third-party service status, but it does not monitor services itself.

  • Status.io

    A hosted status page service for publishing incidents and maintenance and notifying subscribers.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    Status.io offers many subscriber notification channels, scheduled maintenance reminders and live metrics on the page, but it remains a paid hosted service.

  • Instatus

    A hosted status page service with service monitoring, alerts and team incident handling.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Instatus adds service monitoring and alerting to public or private status pages and has a free plan without a card, unlike the paid Sorry™.

  • StatusPal

    A hosted service that combines status pages, uptime monitoring and incident management.

    PaidProprietaryWeb

    StatusPal combines status pages with uptime monitoring and incident management, is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified, but has two editions that can make plan choice less clear.

  • Better Stack Status Page

    A hosted status page service with subscriber updates, custom domains and built-in uptime monitoring.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Better Stack Status Page offers a free branded page with per-component email subscriptions and built-in uptime monitoring, but lacks the Slack, Teams and Google Chat subscriber notices.

  • Hyperping

    A hosted service for public and private status pages with built-in uptime monitoring.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Hyperping adds built-in uptime monitoring and private pages with password, SAML SSO or email codes, with a freemium plan and Statuspage import.

  • OpenStatus

    An open-source status page and uptime monitoring service that you can use hosted or self-host.

    OpenStatus is open source and can be self-hosted, including a status-page-only setup, and adds uptime monitoring managed as code with Terraform or the CLI.

  • Statping-ng

    A self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, maintained as a community fork of Statping.

    Statping-ng is a free GPL-3.0 status page and uptime monitor you host yourself, but it is a community fork with irregular development.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • StatusGator

    A hosted service that monitors thousands of cloud status pages and alerts teams about outages.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb
  • UptimeRobot

    A hosted uptime monitoring service with 50 free monitors, alerts and public status pages.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb
  • incident.io

    Hosted reliability platform combining on-call paging, incident response, AI root cause analysis and status pages.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb
  • Better Stack

    A hosted observability service combining uptime monitoring, logs, on-call alerts, incident management and status pages.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb