openstatus

Name: openstatus Review
Item: openstatus
Rating: 3.2
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Development Usable

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Reduces mean-time-to-resolution by centralizing uptime and API health visibility, enabling rapid incident detection and transparency with stakeholders withou…

🫖 Status page with uptime monitoring & API monitoring as code 🫖

Generate uptime monitoring alerts for critical API endpoints without manual dashboard setup
Automate status page updates when your infrastructure services experience degradation or outages
Track API response times and availability metrics across multiple endpoints in one unified view

8,900 starsAGPL-3.0 (check with legal)FreeQuick setup

Usable rating — This tool is functional but has notable gaps. Review the evaluation notes below before deploying.

Why it matters

Reduces mean-time-to-resolution by centralizing uptime and API health visibility, enabling rapid incident detection and transparency with stakeholders without proprietary SaaS licensing overhead.

Best for

DevOps and platform engineering teams managing distributed systems requiring transparent status communication and continuous API reliability tracking.

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Source

https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus

By openstatusHQ

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

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Command

claude plugins install openstatusHQ/openstatus

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First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Help me generate uptime monitoring alerts for critical API endpoints without manual dashboard setup

CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars8,900Last updated2026-07-27LicenseAGPL-3.0 (check with legal)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-07-27 · scanner v1

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3 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 8,900 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license AGPL-3.0.

Things to check

Scanned, not hands-on tested — this entry was auto-scanned from public metadata (GitHub metrics, license, security flags). No reviewer has run it, and no tool-specific limitations have been documented yet.
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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

2/5

Versatility

5/5

Reliability

3/5

Security

3/5

Overall score3.15 / 5.00 UsableEvaluatedJul 2026

Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 8,900 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license AGPL-3.0.

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