StatusIQ

Overview

StatusIQ brings status pages, incident updates, maintenance scheduling, and subscriber notifications together. Pages can be public or password-protected for internal teams, partners, or selected customer groups. Subscribers can follow all updates or choose particular components, and receive notifications by email, SMS, or RSS.

For teams already using Site24x7, linked monitors can automatically update page components when downtime alerts occur. StatusIQ also accepts monitoring data from other tools and can display status and metrics through email and REST APIs. Floating and inline widgets let teams show service health within their products; analytics include page visits, iCalendar, and RSS support.

Key features

Branding options include logos, favicons, brand colors, custom email sender domains, and custom domains. Paid plans add custom domain mapping with automatically provisioned SSL. The postmortem editor supports rich text, tables, and links, a practical way to provide more context after an incident rather than leaving the page at a sequence of alerts.

Team alerts can connect to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and webhooks. The StatusIQ app is available for Android and iOS. Site24x7 says its services use SSL/TLS, AES-256 encryption, and an OWASP-based security framework, and that its controls and PII processing adhere to ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, and GDPR.

Pricing

StatusIQ has a free plan and paid monthly plans, with a 30-day trial for paid plans. A credit card is not required to start a trial or free account. The lower tiers are bounded by page, component, and subscriber quotas; choose a paid tier when those limits or its added features matter.

• Free — 0.00 USD per free, billed monthly: One status page, 10 components, 100 subscribers, and email notifications. It is a sensible starting point for a small service, but does not include the listed SMS notifications or custom domain mapping of Green.
• Green — 9.00 USD per month, billed monthly: One Green page plus two Free/Basic pages, 50 components per page, 250 subscribers per page, SMS notifications, and custom domain mapping. It is the clearest step up for teams that need a branded domain or more capacity than Free allows. Green includes unlimited team members and Classic support.
• Blue — 50.00 USD per month, billed monthly: One Blue page plus two Free/Basic pages, 200 components per page, 500 subscribers per page, SAML SSO, and custom HTML and CSS. Its higher price is most relevant to teams needing those larger quotas or enterprise-oriented page controls. Blue includes unlimited team members and Classic support.
• Additional Green page — 10.00 USD per month per status page: Available only to paid account holders.
• Additional Blue page — 59.00 USD per month per status page: Available only to paid account holders.

Free includes Standard support; Green and Blue include Classic support. Online payments accept major credit cards and PayPal, and purchase orders are also supported.

Platforms

StatusIQ supports web, Android, iOS, and API access. The mobile apps extend access beyond the web page, while integrations and APIs support connecting status information with monitoring and team workflows.

Who it's for

StatusIQ is a strong fit for a team that needs to communicate outages and planned maintenance in one place, notify subscribers across channels, and keep page components in sync with monitoring. The Free plan is suited to modest needs; Green fits teams that need SMS or a custom domain, and Blue is for organizations that need larger per-page quotas, SAML SSO, or custom HTML and CSS.

It is less compelling for a team that only needs monitoring rather than customer-facing status communications, or whose page and subscriber needs exceed a plan's quotas without a need for its other features. More than 13,000 customers use Site24x7 StatusIQ. Site24x7 is a ManageEngine division, and ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Public and password-protected pages support both customer-facing and restricted updates; component-level subscriptions and email, SMS, and RSS give subscribers choice.
• Pros: Automatic updates from linked Site24x7 monitors can reduce the gap between a downtime alert and a component status change.
• Pros: Green and Blue include unlimited team members, avoiding a seat cap on those plans.
• Cons: Free is limited to one page, 10 components, and 100 subscribers, with email notifications only.
• Cons: Custom domain mapping begins with Green, while SAML SSO and custom HTML and CSS require Blue, so teams needing those features face a substantial jump from Free.

Alternatives

Consider Spectate if its monitor-focused plans better fit your needs: its Hobby plan includes five monitors or servers and one status page, while Solo is 12.00 USD per month, billed $144 billed yearly, for one user and 15 monitors or servers.

Spike.sh is a paid option with a Standard plan at 7.00 USD per month, billed monthly, including a status page, 100 total phone and SMS alerts, WhatsApp and Telegram alerts, and Slack and Discord ChatOps.

For a free alternative with a stated user and service limit, StatusEntry offers one user, a public status page, unlimited status updates, and two services on its Free plan.

AppStatus offers a broader monitoring-oriented free package: five monitors, five-minute checks, three heartbeats, one status page, one agent, five team members, one workspace, and one Kubernetes cluster.

Instatus may suit teams that want monitoring quotas alongside a free public status page; Starter includes 15 monitors, two-minute checks, email alerts, five team members, and two on-call members.

openstatus is worth considering if self-hosting is important: its Hobby plan includes one monitor, one status page, three components, and 10-minute minimum checks.

StatusOwl is another free option, with one status page, 25 monitors checked every three minutes, two team members, and 30 days of history.

Freshstatus is a free, web-based alternative.

See Status Page Software for more options.

Verdict

StatusIQ is a sound choice for teams that want status communication tied to monitoring, with public or restricted pages and several subscriber channels. Its strongest reason to choose it is the combination of automatic Site24x7 component updates, subscriber notifications, and flexible page visibility. Look elsewhere if you need more generous free limits or do not need a status-page service; the paid tiers become most persuasive when their SMS, domain, SSO, customization, or capacity features match a concrete requirement.