10,000 foot view of various Service Status Software

Analysis on some open source service status projects I’ve stumbled upon over time:

https://cachethq.io/

1. Really nice looking interface, easy to understand
2. Good use of graphs
3. Good list of customers
4. Using PHP which makes it really portable

http://www.stashboard.org/

1. Very nice interface
2. Lacks some graphical displays
3. Runs on Google app engine
4. API is restful

http://dashingdemo.herokuapp.com/sample

1. Beautiful UI
2. Interactive
3. Contains probably more than you’d need for service status

http://williamdurand.fr/2012/01/16/services-status-dashboard/

1. Really like the UI
2. Limited functionality

https://status.github.com/

1. I don’t think it’s truly open source
2. Good graphs
3. Nice response rate data

http://demo.system-status-dashboard.com/

1. Nice layout
2. Integration to incidents is good
3. Ability to scroll over time is a cool feature
4. A bit of a cluttered interface

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

1. I love the global map
2. Simple clean interface
3. Single icon on status is cool
4. Refresh ability is really nice

https://dev.twitter.com/overview/status

1. Simple and clean

https://status.heroku.com/

1. A very different interface
2. Good production and non-prod breakdown
3. Good history