Compare · RealUptime Outages
RealUptime Outages vs StatusGator
StatusGator is a status-page aggregator: by its own support documentation, it polls the official status pages of thousands of service providers roughly every five minutes and normalizes them into one dashboard, falling back to an undisclosed anomaly-detection signal for vendors without a status page. RealUptime Outages starts from a different data source entirely: our own probes measure every tracked service directly, from ten regions, whether or not the vendor has said anything.
Independent probing of tracked services
Have
our own probes check every catalog service from ten regions, independent of vendor claims
Don’t have
its docs state it relies on official status pages rather than independently probing services; the one exception is an undisclosed early-warning signal
Per-region measured readings
Have
each outage page shows what every probe region measured
Don’t have
no per-region check data is published or exposed
Published detection methodology
Have
the full method, thresholds included, is public at /outages/methodology
Partial
support docs explain the polling model, but the early-warning detection algorithm is not disclosed
Vendor coverage breadth
Partial
a curated catalog, every entry actively probed; far narrower than StatusGator today
Have
self-reported 4,000+ cloud providers tracked since 2015; genuinely the broadest list in this category
Free access to outage data
Have
every outage page is public, free, and unmetered; no ads or trackers
Partial
free plan capped at 3 monitors, 1 month of history, and 10 notifications a month
Is there a free tier?
RealUptime is free to start and never asks for a card. One signup turns on the free rung of every product: 10 monitors with a public status page, 5 server-agent slots, and 10,000 error events a month kept for 14 days. RealUptime Outages is free to read with no account at all.
StatusGator: a free plan capped at 3 monitors, 1 month of history and 10 notifications a month.
Is it open source or self-hosted?
RealUptime's core is a hosted service and its source is not published, so there is no self-hosted edition of the platform itself. The parts that run on your side are open source at github.com/RealUptimeHQ: the CLI and the RealUptime Errors SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP and Ruby are MIT-licensed, and the Grafana data source is Apache 2.0.
StatusGator: a hosted product that publishes no source and no self-hosted edition.
Outage pages here are built from our own probe readings, so there is nothing to self-host; the pieces you can run yourself are the CLI and the SDKs named above.
Looking for a StatusGator alternative?
For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.