Free uptime monitoring & status pages for serious open-source projects
If your project keeps other people online, we'll keep your status boring. Apply for our free OSS Hero plan for multi-region uptime monitoring, incident management, alerts and a hosted status page – so you can focus on code, not comms.
Already running a status page somewhere else? We'll help you move it — see below. Need the broader product view? See how this fits into our all-in-one reliability platform.
Manual approval • Public repo & license required • Non-commercial use • No credit card required • Acknowledgement required
OSS Hero Plan
- Up to 3 status pages
- 7 monitors per page
- 60 check interval
- discord, telegram, webhook, email, mattermost, rocketchat, ntfy, gotify, matrix alerts
- Custom domain (optional)
- Embeds: Advanced + JSON
- OSS Hero acknowledgement (required)
What OSS Hero actually means
Three things worth knowing before you apply.
Free while you're eligible
Not a trial. Not a discount. No credit card required — for as long as your project stays eligible, the plan stays free.
A person reviews your application
No scoring algorithm, no bot. Someone reads what you submit and replies — usually within a few business days.
We help you get set up
Beyond approving the application, we'll help you configure monitoring that fits your project, and help you migrate off another status page provider if you're already running one.
Projects we support
Open-source projects currently running on the OSS Hero plan.
Why we run this program
StatusPage.me runs on open-source software — from the database to the libraries in our own stack. This program is us putting some of that back: real monitoring infrastructure for maintainers keeping other people's systems online without a monitoring budget.
We're not running this to collect logos or case studies. It's infrastructure, given to people who need it.
What's included
The core of what you get on OSS Hero.
Uptime monitoring
Multi-region checks every 60 sec.
Public status pages
Up to 3 hosted pages, custom domain included.
Incident & maintenance updates
Publish incidents, scheduled maintenance, and postmortems.
Notifications
discord, telegram, webhook, email, mattermost, rocketchat, ntfy, gotify, matrix alerts for subscribers.
Embeddable widgets, badges, and API access are included too — exact numbers (subscribers, monitors, retention) are in the full plan table below.
Already have a status page?
If you're on Atlassian Statuspage or another provider, you don't have to start from zero. As part of onboarding, we'll help you recreate your components, monitors, and incident setup on StatusPage.me — human-assisted, not an automated import.
Tell us what you're moving from in your application, and we'll walk you through it. This is manual work on our side too, so the earlier we know, the smoother the switch.
OSS Hero plan details
The exact limits and features on OSS Hero, for anyone evaluating this against a paid plan or another provider. See how it compares on our full pricing page.
| Feature | OSS Hero |
|---|---|
| Core Limits | |
| Status pages | Up to 3 |
| Monitors / page | 7 |
| Private monitors | — |
| Check interval | 60 sec |
| Subscribers | Up to 2K+ |
| Monitoring locations | 4 |
| Uptime history | 365 days |
| Notifications | |
| Channels |       |
| Branding & Customization | |
| Branding | Badge + logo/colors |
| Embeds & Widgets | Advanced + JSON |
| Custom domain | |
| Custom CSS | |
| Automation | |
| Auto incidents | |
| Auto incident notify | |
| Auto resolve | |
| On-call scheduling | Up to 5 |
| Down prediction | — |
| Adaptive post-incident monitoring | — |
| Runbooks | |
| Incident tasks / incident | 50 |
| Incident archiving | — |
| Security & Compliance | |
| Two-factor auth | |
| Security keys (WebAuthn) | |
| Private status pages | — |
| Audit logs | — |
| SLA reports | — |
| Status page settings audit | — |
| Team Collaboration | |
| Max teams | 5 |
| Members per team | 5 |
| Heartbeat Monitors | |
| Heartbeat quota | Up to 10 |
| Advanced | |
| API access | |
| Incident templates | |
| Postmortem reports | |
| Response graph | |
| Daily pills | |
| Web analytics | |
Eligibility
- Public repository with active development
- OSI-approved license (MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL, etc.)
- Project website or README visible to users
- Non-commercial usage on this plan
We see the best fit with infrastructure and devtools, self-hosted/managed OSS services, and networking/security tools — but if your project has real users and you're not sure, apply anyway.
How to apply
- Create a free account and set up your status page.
- Submit the form with your repo, license, and project links.
- We review and upgrade you to the OSS Hero plan.
What's the catch?
Honestly — not much. Here's what we do and don't ask for:
- No credit card required
- No equity, no revenue share
- No exclusivity — use other tools alongside us
- No requirement to promote StatusPage.me beyond the standard OSS Hero acknowledgement
- We won't turn your project into a marketing case study without asking you first
The one real requirement: a visible OSS Hero acknowledgement — either our badge on your site, or a StatusPage.me link on an existing sponsors/supporters page — kept in place for as long as you're on OSS Hero. That's the standard requirement for OSS Hero projects.
Accessibility matters
If your project's community encounters an accessibility barrier on a status page we host, please tell us. We'll investigate it and, where possible, improve StatusPage.me itself so the fix benefits everyone.
Show you're supported
Display the badge on your README, docs, or website — or, if you'd rather, link to us from an existing sponsors/supporters page instead. Either satisfies the acknowledgement requirement.
Markdown:
[](https://statuspage.me?utm_source=oss-hero&utm_medium=badge)HTML:
<a href="https://statuspage.me?utm_source=oss-hero&utm_medium=badge">
<img src="https://statuspage.me/static/badge/oss.svg" alt="StatusPage OSS Hero">
</a>
Markdown:
[](https://statuspage.me?utm_source=oss-hero&utm_medium=badge)HTML:
<a href="https://statuspage.me?utm_source=oss-hero&utm_medium=badge">
<img src="https://statuspage.me/static/badge/oss-wide.svg" alt="Supported by StatusPage.me">
</a>View detailed badge guide for placement tips and more options.
Already have a sponsors, supporters, partners, contributors, or infrastructure-credits page? A plain-text link to statuspage.me there is enough — no logo required.
Frequently asked questions
status.yourproject.org at StatusPage.me with automatic SSL. For very high-traffic projects we may request DNS at your side to manage costs and performance. Learn more on the custom domains page.Stop paying for monitoring out of pocket.
If your open-source project keeps other people online, OSS Hero will keep your uptime monitoring, incidents and status page running for free.