Depending on what you're after, there's a number of options. There are very simple "turnkey" solutions like UptimeRobot and StatusCake that do periodic ping/traceroute from a single location. I stray from host-your-own stuff for monitoring (i.e. UptimeKuma) because you either host it in your network or at a remote location (single origin). Single origin pings may be good enough for public status page, but you'll be blind to issues that are regionally isolated. Hosting a public status page inside your network has the obvious caveat of potential unreliability in an outage. I use a thing that polls globalping.io into Prometheus alongside my other monitoring data. I like that, and it's exposed some weird issues with certain upstreams. If you want a managed version of that, there is Betterstack, which is more featureful than UptimeRobot/StatusCake, and has the public status page bundled in. On Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 at 9:34 AM, David Hubbard via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Hi all, curious if anyone has made use of an automated status page system that’s public-facing, and you both like it and find it reasonably priced?
This would be one of those systems that makes use of API’s to pull, or we can push to it, to reflect the nearly real time state of circuits, systems, API’s, etc. I’ve found numerous options out there, but most seem to have ridiculous pricing around allowing people to subscribe to the status page, or even worse if you begin to make use of SMS notifications. That SMS pricing is often two orders of magnitude higher for the same quantity of transactional texts as you’d pay to have them sent through a dedicated SMS provider.
Thanks,
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