I agree it's not for everyone, but I can see its usefulness for a number of service scenarios such as PaaS/SaaS. I signed up for a trial (no CC required), and

I agree it's not for everyone, but I can see its usefulness for a number of service scenarios such as PaaS/SaaS. I signed up for a trial (no CC required), and there's integration support for Pingdom, New Relic and Webmon. i.e. you can get these to send email alerts to status.io which then parses them to set the service status. e.g. http://doers.statuspage.io/integrations/pingdom/ http://doers.statuspage.io/integrations/pingdom/ There's also support for pulling in metrics from Pingdom, New Relic, Librato, TempDB and Datadog and displaying nice graphs: http://doers.statuspage.io/public-metrics/introduction/ http://doers.statuspage.io/public-metrics/introduction/ It would be nice I guess if you could send your own nagios notifications or poll a custom data source in addition to these other commercial services.