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Status Pages & Incident Management: The Surprisingly Lucrative World of Uptime Monitoring, PagerDuty’s -84% Stock Decline, incident.io’s $400M Valuation & the 83K-Star Open Source Challenger

The status page market alone is valued at $1.26 billion (2024), projected to reach $4.12 billion by 2033 at 14.1% CAGR. The broader incident management software market sits at $2.5–4.5 billion, with IT alerting at ~$2.69 billion and uptime monitoring at $6.2 billion. Combined, this is a $10B+ ecosystem that every software company needs but few think about until something breaks.

The landscape is shifting dramatically: PagerDuty’s stock is down 84% from its all-time high while growth decelerated from 32% to 8.5%. Meanwhile, incident.io raised $62M at a $400M valuation with a Slack-native approach. Atlassian is sunsetting Opsgenie (April 2027 shutdown), forcing thousands of customers to migrate. And Uptime Kuma — an open source self-hosted monitor — has 83,200 GitHub stars, more than most commercial products in the space.



1. Market Size & Growth

Market Segment 2024–2025 Size Projected CAGR
Status Page as a Service $1.26B (2024) $4.12B by 2033 14.1%
Incident Management Software $2.5–4.5B $5.93–12.3B by 2031–2033 10.7–12.5%
IT Alerting Software ~$2.69B (2025) $5.2–6.0B by 2033–2035 ~15%
Server Uptime Monitoring $6.2B (2024) $15.1B by 2033 10.7%
Website Monitoring Software $1.675B (2025) $3.15B by 2032 9.6%

Cloud-based solutions hold 60% of status page market revenue. Asia-Pacific is the fastest-growing region at 15.2% CAGR. Growth drivers: cloud-native architectures, microservices expansion, and AI-powered analytics.


2. Status Page Platforms

Platform Revenue / Funding Pricing Key Facts
Atlassian Statuspage Acquired 2016 (undisclosed); part of $4.4B Atlassian Free (100 subs) / $29–$1,499/mo ~7.68% ITSM market share; Venmo, Reddit, Dropbox; 21-day outage Feb 2025
Instatus ~$480K ARR; Calm Company Fund backed Lower than Atlassian ~1,000 customers; Cairo-based founder; fast & simple
Oh Dear $126.5K (2024, +26% YoY); bootstrapped 15 EUR/mo for 5 pages 1-person company (Belgium); all-in-one monitoring + status
SorryApp Undisclosed $99/mo (1K subs, 5 team members) Multi-page collections; Slack/Teams integration
Hyperping Undisclosed Free / $24–$164/mo flat rate No per-user fees; 30-sec checks from 18 locations
Hund Undisclosed $29/mo (20 components) Full HTML/CSS customization; Terraform provider; 99.9% SLA
StatusCake ~$580K/year (est.) $20–$67/mo Founded 2012 (UK); uptime + page speed + SSL + domain
IsDown Undisclosed Undisclosed Status page aggregator — monitors 4,522+ vendor pages; internal focus

The status page space is remarkably fragmented. Most players are small bootstrapped teams. The biggest story is Atlassian Statuspage’s 21-day critical outage in February 2025 — the irony of a status page going down for three weeks is not lost on the market, and it created an opening for alternatives.


3. Incident Management Platforms

Platform Revenue Funding / Valuation Status
PagerDuty $467.5M (FY2025) Public (NYSE: PD); ~$1.13B market cap Growth slowing (8.5% YoY); stock -84% from ATH
incident.io $9M (2025) $96.2M raised; $400M valuation Slack-native; Netflix, OpenAI, Airbnb customers
Opsgenie (Atlassian) Part of $4.4B Atlassian Acquired for $295M (2018) Sunsetting: no new sales June 2025, shutdown April 2027
Squadcast $10.9M (Oct 2024) $10–19.5M raised Acquired by SolarWinds (March 2025)
FireHydrant Undisclosed $32.5M+ raised Acquired Blameless (Aug 2024); SRE-focused
Rootly 400% revenue growth (2023) $15.3M raised (Google Gradient, 8VC) Canva, Nvidia, TripAdvisor; free tier
Blameless $3.7M (2023, pre-acquisition) $50.1M raised Acquired by FireHydrant (August 2024)
StatusHero $4M (2025) $1.1M raised Async check-ins + project status aggregation

The incident management space is consolidating: FireHydrant acquired Blameless, SolarWinds acquired Squadcast, Atlassian is sunsetting Opsgenie. The survivors are the modern Slack-native tools (incident.io, Rootly) and the incumbent (PagerDuty) trying to defend with AI.


4. Uptime Monitoring

Platform Revenue / Funding Key Metrics
UptimeRobot ~$21M/year (est.); acquired by Pale Fire Capital (2019) 2.7M+ users, 7.57M+ monitors; 50 free monitors
Pingdom (SolarWinds) Acquired for $103M (2014) 500K customers at acquisition; 60+ global locations; $15+/mo
Better Stack $3.4M (Sept 2025); $28.6M raised 200K+ developers, 4K+ paying; Forbes Startup of the Year 2022
Checkly $561K (June 2024); $32.25M raised (Series B $20M) 1K+ companies (Autodesk, 1Password); Playwright-based synthetic monitoring
Datadog Synthetics Part of $3.21B trailing revenue 51.82% DCM market share; Gartner Leader
New Relic Synthetics $925.6M (FY2023); taken private for $6.5B ~24% system admin market share; Gartner Leader
Freshping (Freshworks) Part of $600M+ Freshworks Free forever: 50 monitors, 1-min intervals, 5 status pages, 10 users
Updown.io ~$192K; bootstrapped, ~6 people Pay-as-you-go credits; ~0.6 EUR/mo per site

UptimeRobot dominates the free/freemium space with 2.7 million users monitoring 7.57 million endpoints. Its massive free tier (50 monitors) creates an enormous adoption funnel. Meanwhile, the premium end is dominated by Datadog and New Relic bundling synthetics into broader observability platforms.


5. Open Source Alternatives

Project GitHub Stars Language Key Features
Uptime Kuma ~83,200 Node.js Self-hosted monitoring, 95+ notification channels, 20-sec intervals, Docker, MariaDB (v2.0)
Upptime ~16,000+ TypeScript GitHub Actions-powered, zero-server, static status page generator
Cachet ~14,000 PHP/Laravel Status page system, incident tracking, metrics, 10+ languages; being rebuilt with Vue.js/Tailwind
Gatus ~9,500 Go Single binary, 10–30MB RAM, HTTP/TCP/ICMP/DNS/WS/SSH monitoring, 20+ alert providers
Statping-ng ~7,000 Go Status page + monitoring, graphs, analytics, plugins
OneUptime ~6,000+ TypeScript Full observability platform (replaces Datadog + PagerDuty + Statuspage); Apache 2.0
cState ~2,500 Hugo/Go Static status page, no database, Git-based
Vigil ~1,800 Rust Microservices-focused, lightweight; created by Crisp.chat

Uptime Kuma’s 83,200 stars make it one of the most popular self-hosted tools on all of GitHub. For context, that’s more stars than Grafana (66K) and approaching Prometheus (56K). There is no official hosted version — a massive market opportunity.

OneUptime is the most ambitious OSS project, aiming to replace the entire paid stack (monitoring + status + alerting + incident management + post-mortems) with a single Apache 2.0 platform. Gatus is gaining momentum with its single-binary Go approach — 10–30MB RAM makes it ideal for resource-constrained environments. Upptime’s zero-infrastructure approach (runs entirely on GitHub Actions) is uniquely clever.


6. PagerDuty Deep Dive: The Incumbent Under Siege

Revenue History

Fiscal Year Revenue YoY Growth
FY2021 $213.6M +28.4%
FY2022 $281.4M +31.8%
FY2023 $370.8M +31.8%
FY2024 $430.7M +16.2%
FY2025 $467.5M +8.5%

Stock Performance

Customer Metrics

Acquisitions

AI Bet (Operations Cloud, 2025)

Competition Pressure

PagerDuty faces pressure from every direction:


7. incident.io: The Slack-Native Challenger

Funding & Valuation

Round Amount Date Lead
Seed $5.5M September 2021
Series A $28.7M July 2022 Index Ventures
Series B $62M April 2025 Insight Partners

How They Differentiated from PagerDuty

  1. Slack-native architecture: The entire incident lifecycle lives in Slack/Teams — no context-switching to a separate web app
  2. Speed to value: Teams deploy in days vs. weeks for PagerDuty
  3. Modern UX: Built from scratch vs. PagerDuty’s 15+ years of accumulated UI debt
  4. Time savings: Over 100 incidents/year, saves 1,500+ minutes (25+ hours) in coordination
  5. Transparent pricing: $19–$25/user/month vs. PagerDuty’s opaque enterprise pricing
  6. Direct engineering access: Shared Slack channels; bug fixes in hours, features in days

Origin Story

Built by former Monzo engineers frustrated with fragmented legacy tools. The founding insight: incident management should happen where teams already work (Slack), not in a separate tool. Teams like Intercom migrated from PagerDuty + Atlassian Statuspage to incident.io in weeks.

Pricing


8. Better Stack: The Unified Platform Play

Better Stack’s thesis: monitoring, status pages, logging, and incident management should be one product. This contrasts with the fragmented stack of Pingdom + Statuspage + PagerDuty + Datadog. Positioning: “30x cheaper than Datadog.”

Metric Data
Revenue $3.4M (September 2025)
Total Funding $28.6M (Series A-II: $10M, Jan 2024, led by KAYA)
Team 31 people
Developers 200,000+
Paying Customers 4,000+
Profitability “Unintentionally profitable” since 2023; all VC still in the bank
ESOP Buyback $5M+ (employee shares)
Notable Customers Accenture, Time Magazine, Decathlon, ESET, Brave, Drata
Recognition Forbes Startup of the Year 2022

$3.4M revenue with 31 people and all VC still in the bank — this is one of the most capital-efficient companies in the space. The “unintentionally profitable” status while growing aggressively suggests a sustainable business model.


9. The Atlassian Ecosystem & Opsgenie Sunset

Acquisition Timeline

The Opsgenie Sunset

This is a classic platform bundling play: Atlassian is forcing Opsgenie customers into JSM Premium/Enterprise, which now includes advanced on-call, escalation policies, and unlimited SMS/phone alerts. But not all customers will stay with Atlassian — the Opsgenie sunset creates a window for incident.io, Rootly, Better Stack, and others to capture migrating customers.

Bundling Strategy


10. Key Acquisitions

Year Acquirer Target Price Category
2014 SolarWinds Pingdom $103M Uptime monitoring
2016 Atlassian Statuspage Undisclosed Status pages
2018 Atlassian Opsgenie $295M IT alerting / on-call
2020 PagerDuty Rundeck $100M DevOps automation
2022 PagerDuty Catalytic Undisclosed Workflow automation
2023 Francisco Partners + TPG New Relic $6.5B Full-stack observability
2023 PagerDuty Jeli Undisclosed Incident analysis
2024 FireHydrant Blameless Undisclosed SRE / incident management
2025 SolarWinds Squadcast Undisclosed Incident response

Patterns: Atlassian pursued horizontal integration (status + alerting + ITSM). PagerDuty acquired for product depth (automation, post-mortems). SolarWinds is rebuilding its monitoring stack (Pingdom + Squadcast). Smaller players are consolidating to survive (FireHydrant + Blameless).


11. Pricing Models

Free Tier / Freemium

Platform Free Tier
UptimeRobot 50 monitors at 5-min intervals (personal/non-commercial only)
Freshping 50 monitors, 1-min intervals, 5 status pages, 10 users (forever free)
Atlassian Statuspage 100 subscribers, 25 components
Better Stack 10 monitors
Hyperping 5 monitors + 1 status page
Uptime Kuma Fully free (self-hosted)
OneUptime Open source (self-host free)

Paid Pricing Models

Per-subscriber pricing for status pages is increasingly seen as outdated. Flat-rate models (Hyperping, Hund) are gaining traction as teams resist paying more just because more customers want to see their status page.


12. The Status Page as Marketing

Trust & Transparency

Public status pages serve a dual purpose: operational communication and brand trust signal.

Public vs Private

Notable Examples

GitHub, Slack, Apple, Google, Fly.io — all maintain clean, component-level status pages with real-time updates and historical data. The status page has evolved from an operational necessity to a competitive differentiator that signals engineering excellence.


13. Opportunities & Gaps


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