The Best Status Page in 2023 is not Statuspage

<p>Every SaaS company needs to create a status page at some point in its evolution. How do you decide between all the different vendors?</p> <p><strong>Goal: identify the best status page for my mid-sized startup.</strong></p> <p>Skydio&rsquo;s cloud product lets you fly a drone from anywhere worldwide from a browser. As organizations have adopted it for critical use cases, the consequences of outages have likewise increased. It&rsquo;s time to invest in a status page that we can use to communicate effectively with our customers. Rather than just defaulting to Statuspage, I did a full bakeoff. Best place to start: requirements.</p> <p><strong>My Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>I want to encourage my team to participate in the outage process (approximately 300 people). Therefore, the interface must be modern and cheap enough that I can add my whole team.</li> <li>I want my subscribers to receive notifications in the medium that they prefer.</li> <li>I want public and private versions of my status page so I can communicate privately with my coworkers and publicly with my customers.</li> <li>I want my customers to see a public copy of my SLA and historical events.</li> <li>I don&rsquo;t want to change any other part of my operations stack: Pagerduty, Datadog, and Slack.</li> </ul> <p><strong>How to break down the options:</strong></p> <p>I then researched to select the top 11 most popular status page vendors: Statuspage, Status.io, Instatus, Uptime, Upptime, Status Pal, Cachet, Pagerduty, Status-page, Stating, Statusfy. I decided to drill down in 3 rounds</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@elliotgraebert/the-best-status-page-in-2023-is-not-statuspage-9dc5be26cb5a">Visit Now</a></p>