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 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 | ~40 incl. DBs · MQTT · browser | HTTP · TCP · DNS · TLS · ping · domain |
| fastest interval | 30s on hosted paid tiers | 20s | 60s free · 30s Pro · 10s self-hosted |
| multi-region probes | 28 hosted regions | single instance | multi-region, run your own |
| status page subscribers | email · RSS | none | email · webhook |
| config as code | Terraform · CLI · YAML · REST | UI only, no management API | Terraform · REST · MCP |
| teams & roles | members on paid tiers | single login | orgs + roles |
| community (GitHub stars) | ~8.8k | ~89k | young |
OpenStatus's open-source checker implements HTTP, TCP and DNS; ICMP, UDP and TLS-certificate monitor types exist in its API schema.
Star counts rounded from GitHub, July 2026.
Verified July 2026 against each project's repository, documentation and plan pages. Refresh when a project ships.
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 around forty monitor types out of the box, including databases, MQTT, SNMP and a real Chromium browser check, and it can notify roughly ninety-five services. It installs in one container in five minutes, checks as often as every 20 seconds, and 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 vantage points. 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, email and RSS subscribers on its status pages, and auto-resolving incident handling. Kuma is single-login with no roles, checks from wherever you installed it, and its status pages have no subscriber notifications.
The honest caveats on both
OpenStatus self-hosted is a multi-service TypeScript stack with external database dependencies, a heavier operational lift 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 like Kuma wishes it was for teams, with the as-code surface OpenStatus champions. You get HTTP, TCP, DNS, TLS and ping 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.