Cachet is billed as a beautiful and powerful status page system.
The software uses the Laravel framework.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- List your service components.
- Report incidents.
- Customise the look of your status page.
- Markdown support for incident messages.
- Simple, but powerful, JSON API.
- Metrics – within the dashboard you’re able to setup metrics – a way to measure something, whether it’s uptime, error rates or something completely random like Cups of coffee drank today. Using the API you can send a point to the metric.
- Multi-lingual.
- Subscriber notifications via email.
- Two factor authentication which is compatible with the Google Authenticator app.
- Responsive, working beautifully on your desktop, tablet and phone.
- Internationalization support – translations for more than 10 languages.
Website: cachethq.io
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: James Brooks
License: BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License

Requirements:
- PHP 7.1.3 – 7.3.
- HTTP server with PHP support (e.g.: Apache, Nginx, Caddy).
- Composer.
- A supported database: MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.
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Related Software
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|---|---|
| Uptime Kuma | Excellent monitoring tool with a simple status page |
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| Cachet | Status page system for everyone |
| Checkmate | Self-hosted infrastructure monitoring application |
| OpenStatus | Status page and uptime monitoring platform |
| Upptime | Uptime monitor / status page using GitHub Actions, Issues, and Pages |
| Kener | Node.js status page tool |
| Gatus | Developer-oriented status dashboard and health monitoring application |
| Vigil | Microservices status page |
| cState | Tiny and simple status page |
| HertzBeat | Observability platform |
| Cabot | Provides features of PagerDuty, Server Density, Pingdom and Nagios |
| PHP Server Monitor | Script that checks whether your websites and servers are up and running |
| YASP | Self-hosted status page application |
| Statusfy | Focus on writing your Incidents Reports and let the magic happen |
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