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Oh Dear vs Atlassian Statuspage: one watches your site, one waits to be told.

Statuspage is the announcement board. It doesn't watch your site; something else has to notice the outage and tell it. Oh Dear is that something else, and it runs the status page too.

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the difference oh dear statuspage
Monitors your sites ✗
Runs a status page
Updates from real checks ✗
Independently-measured uptime ✗
Custom domain included ✗
Subscriber scale (25k+) ✗
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  • HBO Nordic
  • Obsidian
  • Laravel
  • Fathom Analytics
  • PHP 8
  • Stanford University
  • Takeaway.com
  • IGN
  • VRT NWS
  • spatie
the quick verdict
Choose Oh Dear if you want one tool that monitors your sites, uptime, SSL, DNS, cron, performance, broken links, and runs a branded status page that updates itself from those checks. Per site, from $17/mo, status page and custom domain included on every plan.
Choose Atlassian Statuspage if the status page is the product: a large public audience, component-level incident updates, postmortem workflows, private or audience-specific pages, and deep Jira / Opsgenie integration, and you already have a monitor to feed it.
What Statuspage can't do

The status page is only half the job

It actually monitors

1. It actually monitors

Uptime, SSL, DNS, cron, performance and broken links, from the outside, every minute. Statuspage monitors nothing; it shows the status you give it.

The page updates itself

2. The page updates itself

A check fails, it is confirmed from a second location, and your status page posts the incident, or waits for your word. Statuspage needs a human or an integration to post.

Uptime measured independently

3. Uptime measured independently

Your logo and domain on the page, but an outside service measured the numbers. Your users trust the status because you did not write it.

Status pages, side by side

Not apples to apples: one is a monitor that runs a status page, the other is a status page you feed. Each tool leads where it was built to.

Oh Dear Atlassian Statuspage
Monitors your sites (uptime, SSL, DNS, cron)? Yes, built in No, by design
Updates the page from real checks? Auto or manual Manual / API
Uptime measured independently? Yes You publish it
Status page on your own domain? Every plan Paid ($29+/mo)
Multilingual status pages? Yes No
Email subscribers? Yes Yes
SMS & webhook subscribers at scale? No Yes ($99+/mo)
Component-level status & subscriptions? Per site Yes
Incident templates & postmortems? Messages + RSS Purpose-built
Private & audience-specific pages? No Yes
Jira / Opsgenie / Atlassian integration? No Yes
Subscriber scale? Client & team audiences Up to 25,000
Pricing model? Per site, from $17/mo Per subscriber, free–$1,499

Sourced from each vendor's pricing & docs · June 2026

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Being honest

When Atlassian Statuspage is the better call

If the status page is your front-of-house, it's purpose-built, and Oh Dear can sit behind it as the monitor.

Big public audience

Thousands of subscribers

Up to 25,000 subscribers with SMS and webhook alerts on the higher tiers. If a large public audience subscribes to your status, this is built for it.

Deep incident comms

Components & postmortems

Component-level status, scheduled-maintenance windows, incident templates and postmortems, plus private and audience-specific pages: a full incident-communication workflow.

Atlassian shops

Jira & Opsgenie native

If your team already runs Jira, Opsgenie or Jira Service Management, Statuspage plugs straight in. Oh Dear doesn't.

Pricing

Per site vs per subscriber

The two tools don't even charge for the same thing.

Oh Dear · per site
From $17/mo

Priced by how many sites you watch. Monitoring and status page in one bill.

  • Same features on every plan: status page, custom domain, SSO, unlimited users
  • Monitoring included, it's the product
  • 10-day free trial · no card · 30-day money-back
Atlassian Statuspage · per subscriber
Free → $1,499/mo

Priced by subscribers and team members. Communication only.

  • Free (100 subscribers, no custom domain, email only)
  • $29 Hobby · $99 Startup · $399 Business · $1,499 Enterprise
  • Private & audience-specific pages priced separately ($79 / $300+)
  • Monitors nothing: add a separate monitor's bill on top
Why this comparison is lopsided

Buy one tool, not two

A status page is only useful when something tells it the truth. Atlassian Statuspage is very good at the telling, components, subscribers, postmortems, but it never watches your site. So you buy Statuspage, then you buy a monitor to make it mean anything, and you become the wire between them.

Oh Dear watches your sites and runs the status page from the same checks, so the page is already telling the truth at 2am, whether or not you're awake to post it.

That's the whole story of this page. If your status page is a product with a public audience of thousands, Statuspage earns its name. For everyone else, agencies, dev shops, EU teams keeping clients informed, one tool that monitors and announces is the simpler, cheaper, more honest answer.

Weighing other tools?

Oh Dear is usually compared to monitors. If that's the call you're really making, start here.

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"Oh Dear makes website monitoring simple and reliable. Alerts work perfectly, settings are flexible, and the status page is a nice touch for client communication."
Anthony M., FullStack Developer · Capterra review, 5.0
Capterra
4.9 (70)
G2
4.7 (31)

Frequently asked questions

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What's the best Atlassian Statuspage alternative?

It depends on what you are missing. If you want a status page and the monitoring to drive it, without paying for two tools, Oh Dear is the closest single-tool answer: it monitors uptime, SSL, DNS, cron and performance, then runs a branded status page that updates from those checks, from $17/mo. If you need Statuspage's large-scale subscriber communications and component-level incidents, status-page-only tools like Instatus or OpenStatus are closer substitutes.

Does Atlassian Statuspage monitor your website?

No. Statuspage is an incident-communication tool, not a monitoring tool. It displays the status you give it, either manually or through an integration with a separate monitoring service. To know that something is down, you need a monitor feeding Statuspage.

How much does Atlassian Statuspage cost?

There is a free plan (100 subscribers, no custom domain, email only), then Hobby at $29/mo, Startup at $99/mo, Business at $399/mo, and Enterprise at $1,499/mo for public pages. Private and audience-specific pages are priced separately, from $79 and $300/mo. None of these plans include website monitoring.

Can I use Oh Dear and Atlassian Statuspage together?

Yes. If you are committed to Statuspage's communication depth, Oh Dear can be the monitor behind it: Oh Dear detects the issue and can post incidents to your Statuspage through the API. Many teams find they no longer need the second tool once Oh Dear's own status page is set up.

Does Oh Dear's status page run on my own domain?

Yes, on every plan. You point a single DNS record at Oh Dear, add your logo and colours, and the status page lives on your own domain. By comparison, custom domains on Atlassian Statuspage start at the $29/mo Hobby plan.

Is Oh Dear a good status page for an agency?

Yes, it is built for it. One Oh Dear account watches every client's sites, and each client gets a branded status page on its own domain, with uptime measured by an independent service. Your clients trust the numbers because you did not write them.
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