What is Atlassian Statuspage?
Statuspage (statuspage.io, by Atlassian) is a dedicated status-page and incident-communication tool. It hosts public and private status pages, organises services into components, manages incidents and scheduled maintenance, and notifies subscribers by email, SMS, Slack and webhook. It integrates tightly with Jira, Opsgenie and the wider Atlassian suite.
One thing Statuspage does not do is monitor your infrastructure. It is a communication layer: you connect external monitoring tools or update component status manually or through the API. Pricing is per status page and per subscriber tier, the Free plan allows 100 subscribers and 25 components but no custom domain; a custom domain and custom CSS start on the Hobby plan at $29/month, rising to $99 (Startup), $399 (Business) and $1,499 (Enterprise) for higher subscriber counts. Private and audience-specific pages cost more again (figures from statuspage.io/pricing on 2 September 2026).
When Statuspage is the right tool
Statuspage is an excellent fit when status communication itself is the core need:
- Enterprise incident communication. Audience-specific pages, large subscriber lists, SMS and Slack subscribers, and granular components are first-class.
- Deep Atlassian workflows. If your team lives in Jira and Opsgenie, the native integrations and on-call handoff are hard to beat.
- Heavily branded public pages. Custom CSS and custom domains (on paid tiers) give marketing-grade control over a high-traffic status page.
Where Statuspage stops being enough
- It does not monitor anything. You still pay for separate uptime and API monitoring and wire it in, or update status by hand, which drifts from reality.
- It is another subscription. A custom domain alone means at least $29/month on top of your existing monitoring bill.
- No load testing or page-speed monitoring. Statuspage is single-purpose; performance testing lives in other tools and bills.
LoadFocus vs Statuspage: feature comparison
| Feature | LoadFocus | Statuspage |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in API and uptime monitoring | Included | None, bring your own |
| Status page driven automatically by your monitors | Yes | Manual or via API |
| 90-day uptime from real check data | Yes | Depends on wired-in data |
| Incidents and scheduled maintenance | Yes | Yes |
| Email subscribers | Yes | Yes (plus SMS and Slack) |
| Custom domain with automatic HTTPS | Paid plans, certificate included | Paid tiers ($29/mo+) |
| Load testing and page-speed monitoring in the same tool | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes (100 subscribers, no custom domain) |
Statuspage alternatives compared: five tools plus LoadFocus
If you are leaving Statuspage, LoadFocus is not the only option, so here are the tools teams actually shortlist, side by side on the three things that decide the choice: whether the free tier gives you a public status page, what a custom domain costs, and whether monitoring is built in so the page updates itself.
| Tool | Free status page | Custom domain from | Built-in monitoring | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlassian Statuspage | Yes: 100 subscribers, 25 components | $29/month (Hobby) | No | Enterprise incident comms, Jira and Opsgenie teams |
| Better Stack | Yes: 1 page, 10 monitors | Listed without a plan gate; paid seats from $34/month | Yes, checks down to 30 seconds | Teams that also want on-call and incident management |
| Instatus | Yes: 200 subscribers, 15 monitors | $20/month (Pro) | Yes, 2-minute checks on the free plan | Polished public pages at a low price |
| openstatus | Yes: 1 page, 1 monitor | $30/month (Starter) | Yes, 10-minute checks on the free plan | Open-source (AGPL) teams who may self-host |
| UptimeRobot | Yes: 1 page, 50 monitors | €10/month (Solo) | Yes, 5-minute checks on the free plan | Cheapest custom domain, simple uptime pings |
| LoadFocus | Yes: 1 page, 10 components, 250 subscribers | $19/month (Starter) | Yes, API and uptime checks from 25+ regions | API-first teams that also need load testing |
Figures from each vendor's public pricing page (statuspage.io, betterstack.com, instatus.com, openstatus.dev, uptimerobot.com, loadfocus.com) on 2 September 2026, monthly billing. Limits change often, so check the vendor page before you buy.
Better Stack
The closest thing to a full replacement for Statuspage plus Opsgenie: uptime monitoring, on-call, incident management and status pages in one product. The free plan gives 10 monitors and one status page; beyond that you pay per seat ($34 per Responder per month, $29 billed yearly) rather than per page, so cost scales with team size, not with subscribers.
Instatus
A status page that happens to include monitoring. The free Starter plan has 15 monitors at 2-minute checks and 200 subscribers but no custom domain; Pro at $20/month adds a custom domain, 30-second checks and 5,000 subscribers, then Business jumps to $300/month. Good if the page itself is what you care about most.
openstatus
Open source under AGPL, with a hosted plan that starts free (1 monitor, 1 page, 3 components, 10-minute checks). Custom domain and 1-minute checks start on Starter at $30/month; extra status pages are $20/month each. The pick for teams that want to read the code or run it themselves.
UptimeRobot
The cheapest route to a status page on your own domain: Solo is €10/month with 60-second checks and 3 status pages. The free plan gives 50 monitors at 5-minute intervals and one status page without a custom domain. Monitoring is ping-level (HTTP, keyword, port), not API assertions.
LoadFocus
Built for teams whose status page should reflect API health, not just whether a host answers. The free plan includes one status page with 10 components and 250 subscribers, driven by 10 API checks from 6 locations. Starter at $19/month adds a custom domain with automatic HTTPS, 25 checks at 1-minute frequency from 6 locations, 3 status pages and 500 subscribers, and the same account covers load testing and page-speed monitoring.
When LoadFocus is the right alternative to Statuspage
You already run API or uptime monitoring
With LoadFocus API monitoring, your status page is driven by the checks you already run, component status and 90-day uptime reflect real results from 25+ regions automatically, with nothing to update by hand.
You want one bill, not two
Instead of a monitoring tool plus a separate Statuspage subscription, LoadFocus bundles monitoring and the public status page together, with a free tier to start and a custom domain on paid plans.
You also need load and performance testing
The same account covers cloud load testing, JMeter testing and page-speed monitoring, one place for performance and status.
You want a status page without enterprise overhead
If you do not need audience-specific pages, SMS subscribers or deep Atlassian workflows, LoadFocus gives you a clean public status page in minutes.
Your existing Statuspage integrations keep working
This is the part most comparisons leave out. Every LoadFocus status page serves the Statuspage-compatible JSON API at /api/v2/summary.json and /api/v2/status.json, using the same schema Statuspage does: an overall indicator, a components array with the same status values, plus incidents and scheduled_maintenances.
So the dashboard, the Slack bot, the internal wallboard and the uptime aggregator you already wrote against Statuspage do not need rewriting. Repoint them at your new host and they keep working. Incident history is also served as RSS and Atom, and there is an SVG status badge for READMEs. Full shapes are in the Status Page API reference.
That is usually the hidden cost of leaving a status-page vendor, and here it is close to zero. You can see the result on LoadFocus's own status page, which runs on exactly this.
Migration from Statuspage
Moving is straightforward: recreate your components in the LoadFocus status-page editor, map each to the monitors that power it (status then flows automatically), add your incidents and maintenance templates, and point your status. subdomain at LoadFocus with the two DNS records shown in the editor. HTTPS is issued for you. See the Status Pages guide to get started.
FAQ: LoadFocus vs Statuspage
Can LoadFocus replace Statuspage?
For teams that want a public status page driven by their own monitoring, yes. If you depend on audience-specific pages, SMS subscribers or deep Atlassian/Opsgenie incident workflows, Statuspage remains more specialised.
Does Statuspage monitor uptime?
No. Statuspage displays status that you provide; it does not run checks. LoadFocus includes the monitoring and drives the page from it.
How does pricing compare?
Statuspage’s Free plan has no custom domain; a custom domain starts at $29/month. LoadFocus offers a free public status page and bundles a custom domain into paid plans alongside the monitoring you are already paying for.
Is there a free Statuspage alternative with a custom domain?
Every tool in the table above has a free public status page, but each one charges for a custom domain except where noted. The cheapest routes are UptimeRobot at €10/month and LoadFocus at $19/month, and the LoadFocus price also includes 25 API checks at 1-minute frequency, so the monitoring that drives the page comes in the same plan rather than as a second bill.
Will my status page update automatically?
Yes. LoadFocus components are mapped to your monitors, so live status and 90-day uptime update from real check results without manual edits.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on paid plans, serve the page at status.yourcompany.com with an automatically issued, auto-renewing HTTPS certificate.
Can I use both tools together?
Yes. Some teams keep Statuspage for customer-facing comms and use LoadFocus for monitoring, load testing and an internal status page. Most teams consolidate over time.
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