Atlassian Statuspage is the category leader and it shows — subscriber management, component hierarchies, incident templates and a page customers trust. What it does not do is watch anything. You tell it there is an incident; it does not find one.
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Is MonitoringDaddy a real Statuspage alternative?
For small teams who want a public status page and the monitoring that feeds it in one place, yes, and at a fraction of the cost. Statuspage remains the better product if you need subscriber notifications at scale, component hierarchies or the polish customers now expect from large vendors.
Statuspage pricing climbs quickly once you want subscribers and a custom domain, which is most people's actual requirement.
Every incident is posted by a human. If nobody notices the outage, the status page says everything is fine throughout it.
A status page and the monitoring that should drive it are usually bought separately for no good reason.
Green marks the stronger option on that row. Third-party pricing and limits change without notice — treat the Atlassian Statuspage column as a starting point and confirm current figures on their site before you decide.
| Feature | Atlassian Statuspage | MonitoringDaddy |
|---|---|---|
| Public status page | Yes — the category standard | Yes — 1 on free, 10 on the $5 plan, 50 on Pro |
| Monitoring that populates it | No — incidents are posted manually | Yes — uptime monitors open and close incidents automatically |
| Subscriber notifications | Yes — email, SMS, webhook, at scale | Limited — verify against your needs |
| Component hierarchies | Yes, sophisticated | Simpler grouping |
| Custom domain and branding | Yes, on paid tiers | Yes, on paid tiers |
| Uptime monitoring | No | Yes, on every plan |
| SSL and domain expiry | No | Yes, attached to a monitor |
| Website change detection | No | Yes, with word-level diffs |
| Cron / heartbeat monitoring | No | Yes — up to 100 on Pro |
| Entry paid price | From ~$29/mo and rising with subscribers — verify | $5/mo including 10 status pages and 25 monitors |
Every comparison page on the internet claims the author's product wins on everything. Here is where it does not.
If any of those are load-bearing for your team, staying put is the correct decision and this page has done its job. Monitoring you actually trust beats monitoring that is marginally cheaper.
Six monitor types and one dashboard. No add-on products, no separate SKUs for the features you assumed were included.
HTTP checks from external infrastructure, as often as every 60 seconds, with downtime and recovery alerts. See the uptime setup guide.
A dedicated monitor type with configurable advance warnings, so a certificate never lapses because nobody owned the renewal. See SSL expiry monitoring.
Registration expiry tracked as its own monitor, warning you months ahead. The outage nobody has a runbook for. See domain expiration monitoring.
Alert when a phrase appears or disappears on a page — defacement, stock changes, silent policy edits. See website change detection.
Watch a competitor or supplier price string and get told the moment it moves. See the price monitoring guide.
Public status pages included on every plan, hosted independently of your infrastructure so they stay up when you do not. See hosted status pages.
Alerts from any of these can be routed to email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Flock or a generic webhook, and a single monitor can carry several channels at once. Everything is available through the REST API on paid plans, so monitors can be created and torn down programmatically rather than clicked through a form.
Flat monthly tiers. No per-seat charges, no credit top-ups, no usage meters — the number below is the whole bill.
| Plan | Monitors | Fastest interval | Alert channels | API | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | Every 30 minutes | — | $0 | |
| Founding Member first 20 only | 25 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $5/mo |
| Basic | 10 | Every 10 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $8/mo |
| Growth | 50 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $19/mo |
| Pro | 100 | Every 60 seconds | Email + webhook & chat | Yes | $34/mo |
Annual billing is cheaper on every paid tier. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
There is no automated importer — monitors are re-created by hand, or scripted through the API on paid plans. Budget about a minute per monitor.
List every active check: URL, interval, condition and alert recipients. Most teams find monitors nobody needs any more.
Start with revenue-critical URLs. Set the interval, add the condition, attach the channels your team already watches.
Keep Atlassian Statuspage live while the new monitors settle. Compare alerts and confirm nothing is missing.
Move any public status page across, confirm a clean week of overlap, then cancel the old subscription.
This page is written by the team that builds MonitoringDaddy, so treat it as an informed argument rather than a neutral audit. What we can promise is that the claims about our own product are checked against what the software actually does, and the rows where Atlassian Statuspage is stronger are marked as such rather than quietly omitted.
Details about Atlassian Statuspage come from their public pricing and documentation at the time of writing. Monitoring vendors change plan limits and prices frequently and without announcement, so every third-party figure here carries a "verify on their site" caveat and you should take it seriously before making a decision on cost.
One thing worth stating plainly, because most comparison pages fudge it: MonitoringDaddy checks run from our own infrastructure, which is external to yours, but from a single origin rather than a global probe network. That is enough to catch outages and content changes independently of your stack. It is not enough to tell you a site is down in Frankfurt but up in Ohio. If regional verification is a hard requirement, a larger platform will serve you better and we would rather you knew that now.
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Every recorded change is compared word by word and kept with a before-and-after image. This is the real output, shown with worked example data.
Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.
The item is available again and the basket button returned.
A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.
The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
There are no voice calls and no SMS. If a phone call at 3am is a hard requirement, say so before you subscribe — we would rather tell you now than refund you later.
No. It is a communication tool — incidents are created by people. If nobody notices an outage, the page reports everything as operational while it happens. Ours are driven by monitors that open and close incidents automatically.
One on free, 10 on the $5 Founding Member plan, 20 on Growth and 50 on Pro, with branding and a custom domain on paid tiers.
Away from your infrastructure, which is the entire point. A status page served by the servers it reports on goes down exactly when it is needed.
To a limited extent — verify it against your requirements before switching. Statuspage is genuinely stronger here, especially for SMS at scale.
Yes. An uptime monitor detecting an outage opens an incident, and it closes when the site recovers. You can also post manually for planned maintenance.
Substantially at small scale: $5/month covers 10 status pages plus 25 uptime monitors, 25 page watches and 25 heartbeats, against roughly $29/month for status pages alone.
Yes, on paid plans, with your own branding.
Then Statuspage may still suit you better, particularly for subscriber management. Our argument is that most people also need the monitoring.
Last updated August 4, 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
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