comparing self-hosted
OpenStatus vs Uptime Kuma: which fits how you work?
One is monitoring as code with a hosted multi-region fleet, the other is the most-starred self-hosted dashboard on GitHub. Both are open source and both are good; they assume very different teams. The facts first, then where Uptimepage sits between them.
The table below is the whole comparison, unedited. Read it first if you like, it is the same one we would send you.
AGPL-3.0 · one binary · free tier · no card required
The facts, side by side
| OpenStatus | Uptime Kuma | Uptimepage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| license | AGPL-3.0 | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| run it yourself | multi-service TS stack | one container | one binary + compose |
| hosted option | yes, free tier | no | yes, free tier |
| check types | HTTP · TCP · DNS, more in schema | 31 incl. DBs · MQTT · browser | HTTP · TCP · DNS · TLS · domain · ping · heartbeat · flow |
| fastest interval | 30s on hosted paid tiers | 1s | 60s free · 30s Pro · 10s self-hosted |
| multi-region probes | 28 hosted regions | via Globalping add-on | multi-region, run your own |
| status page subscribers | email · webhook · Slack | RSS only | email · webhook |
| config as code | Terraform · REST · CLI · MCP | UI only, no management API | Terraform · REST · MCP |
| teams & roles | members on paid tiers | single login | orgs + roles |
| community (GitHub stars) | ~8.9k | ~89k | young |
OpenStatus's open-source checker implements HTTP, TCP and DNS; ICMP, UDP and TLS-certificate monitor types exist in its API schema.
Uptime Kuma's 2.x line added a Globalping monitor type, so checks can run from other locations without a second instance; it is still not a probe fleet you control.
Star counts rounded from GitHub, July 2026.
Verified July 2026 against each project's repository, documentation and plan pages. Refresh when a project releases a new version.
Two philosophies, not two feature lists
The real difference is who drives. Uptime Kuma is UI-first: you click monitors into a dashboard, and the configuration lives in its database. There is no official REST API for managing monitors and no Terraform provider, which is fine for one person and painful for a team with review habits. OpenStatus starts from the other end: monitors are YAML, CLI commands, GitHub Actions or Terraform, and the dashboard is one view of that config, with a full REST API underneath.
Where Uptime Kuma is ahead
Breadth and community. Kuma speaks 31 monitor types by default, including databases, MQTT, SNMP and a real Chromium browser check, and it can notify 94 services. It installs in one container in five minutes, the 2.x line dropped its minimum interval to one second, and it has by far the largest community of any tool in this space, which means answers exist for almost any problem you hit.
Where OpenStatus is ahead
Teams and check locations. OpenStatus runs a hosted probe fleet across twenty-eight regions on three cloud providers, so you see your service the way users on other continents do, without running agents yourself. It has organizations with unlimited members on paid tiers, status pages that take email, webhook and Slack subscribers on top of RSS, and auto-resolving incident handling. Kuma is single-login with no roles, checks from wherever you installed it unless you reach for its Globalping monitor type, and its status pages offer an RSS feed rather than subscriber notifications.
The honest caveats on both
OpenStatus self-hosted is a multi-service TypeScript stack with external database dependencies, harder to operate than Kuma's single container, and its open-source checker covers fewer protocols than its API schema advertises. Kuma's limits are structural: multi-user support and a management API have been open feature requests for years because the architecture was built for one operator with a browser.
Where Uptimepage fits
Uptimepage sits deliberately between them: one Rust binary built for teams the way Kuma isn't, with the as-code approach OpenStatus is known for. You get HTTP, TCP, DNS, TLS, domain, ping, heartbeat and browser-flow checks, organizations with roles, a Terraform provider, a REST API and an MCP server, plus a branded status page with confirmed email and webhook subscribers and auto-opened incidents. Probes are multi-region and you can run your own. Hosted free with no card, or self-host under AGPL with docker compose.
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- 02Paste a URL. The first check runs before you have finished reading this.
- 03Publish the status page, or export it to Terraform and keep it in Git.
api99.98%
p95 142ms · one incident in 45 days
dashboard99.91%
p95 318ms · two degraded days
webhooks99.99%
p95 88ms · no incidents
RESOLVED14 min
Elevated latency on the dashboard API
14:22 resolved, latency back under 300ms
14:08 opened automatically by the dashboard check
up degraded down 45 days · email & webhook subscribers