StatOSS compared with Pingdom
Pingdom is the veteran, part of SolarWinds, with a hundred probe locations and page-speed and transaction checks. StatOSS is the small open source alternative for a status page and uptime alerts.
Northwind is up.
All 2 monitors are responding, 5 failed checks in the last 24 hours.
API
Up for 6 h 51 min99.65% passed
1,438 checks, median 204 ms, 5 timeouts
95% under 299 ms
- Timed out5 min, 5 checks
Website
Up for 23 h 58 min100% passed
1,438 checks, median 137 ms, all passed
95% under 199 ms
Side by side
| StatOSS | Pingdom | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 1 page, 1 monitor, checks every 5 minutes, 7 days of history, email alerts | None; a free trial |
| Cheapest paid plan | Hobby $4 a month: 10 monitors, every minute, 90 days. Pro $15: 100 monitors across 10 pages, a year, your own domain | Synthetic, $16.50 a month billed annually ($198 a year): 10 uptime checks, 1 advanced check, 50 SMS a month |
| Check interval | Every minute on paid plans, every 5 minutes on Free | Every minute |
| Check locations | Aarhus and Copenhagen in Denmark, Falkenstein in Germany, Ashburn in the USA, Singapore, and Sydney in Australia, the regions in turn, with every failure checked again from every region | More than 100 probes across five continents, about 10 rotating per check within a chosen region |
| Status page | Up to 10 pages on Pro, your own domain with the certificate handled, password protection, subscribers | One public page per organisation, no password; a custom domain without HTTPS |
| Monitor types | HTTP with keyword, TCP, DNS, ping, certificate, domain expiry, heartbeat, component | HTTP with string match and SSL expiry, mail servers, network checks, page speed and browser transactions |
| Alerts | Email on every plan; Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Pushover, ntfy and a signed webhook on Hobby and Pro. No SMS | Email, SMS from a monthly pool, push, Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, webhooks and more |
| Open source | The core is MIT licensed and runs on your own box | No |
Facts about the other product were read from its own site on 29 September 2026. Prices and limits change; check theirs before deciding, and tell [email protected] if something here is out of date.
What StatOSS does differently
Most uptime pages show a row of green squares, one per day, and a percentage. A five-minute outage at 3 a.m. becomes a square that is still green and a figure that still says 99.99%. StatOSS draws a strip per monitor where every bar is one check, its height the response time, amber for a timeout and red for any other failure, and groups the failed checks into entries with the time and the reason. The mark stays visible for the whole range. A customer who was refused at 3 a.m. finds the moment on the page, and so do you.
Before a failure counts, a second server on another network repeats the check, and only a failure both see goes on the record; two of those in a row make an outage. The response time of every check is kept, and a slow threshold turns a sluggish service into its own state with its own alert. The core is open source under MIT, so the page you get from the hosted service is the page you can run yourself.
When Pingdom is the better pick
If you need to know how your site loads from São Paulo, or to script a checkout in a real browser every few minutes, Pingdom does that and StatOSS does not. If you already buy SolarWinds, it is one more line on the same invoice. If SMS from a monthly pool matters, that is built in.
Where StatOSS fits: a status page as the product rather than an afterthought, up to 10 of them on your own domains with HTTPS, a free plan to start on, every failed check visible to visitors, and a core you can read and run.