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OpenStatus

INFRA · APIS
Velocity5.0

Open-source synthetic monitoring and status page platform

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OpenStatus adds heartbeat monitors for cron jobs that fail without a sound.

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◆Current state
OpenStatus can now watch cron jobs, backups and workers through heartbeat monitors: a job pings a unique URL, and OpenStatus alerts when the pings stop or report a failure. Status pages can also show uptime bars and timestamps in their own time zone rather than UTC. These follow per-resource API scopes, MCP setup tools and October's incident-management work.
◆Where it's heading
OpenStatus is widening from checking endpoints from the outside to catching background work that fails silently, while finishing off its incident and status-page flow.
◆Prediction
Heartbeat monitors will probably be wired into the incident flow and MCP tools next, as earlier monitor and incident features were.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7d ago

    Status Page Time Zone

    Status pages can show uptime bars and timestamps in their own time zone instead of UTC. A small but visible fix for status pages read by non-technical customers.

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  2. 8d ago

    Heartbeat monitors

    Heartbeat monitors cover cron jobs, backups and workers by alerting when their pings stop or report a failure. It extends OpenStatus from outside checks to background jobs that fail silently.

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  3. 9d ago

    Scopes per resource and MCP setup tools

    Per-resource read or write scopes for API keys and OAuth grants, plus MCP tools that create monitors, status pages and components. It moves the MCP server from read access to setup, with scopes limiting what an agent can touch.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Incident management

    OpenStatus adds incident management: declare incidents from Slack or the dashboard, run them in a dedicated channel, and draft the post-mortem afterwards. It extends the status-page product into the response workflow itself.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Maintenance updates

    openstatus lets teams post dated progress notes on a maintenance window from the dashboard, the API or an agent. Status pages get live updates during planned work.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Status report timeline

    Status reports now show a timeline of updates with an inline composer. It is groundwork for the incident flow that arrived two weeks later.

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