Best tools to monitor your vendors' status pages
No card, no time limit.
When a payment provider or cloud region has an incident, your support inbox fills up before your own monitoring notices anything. These tools watch vendor status pages for you. Figures come from each vendor's pricing page on 16 Oct 2026, in US dollars, unless a page did not load.
Price comparison
| Tool | Free option | Entry paid plan | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outage Clock (ours) | 5 vendors, no time limit | $19/mo for 30 vendors | $49 for 150, $99 unlimited |
| IsDown | 14-day trial | $49/mo for 30 monitors | Premium $99, Business $179 |
| StatusGator | Check its site | Not quoted; page did not load | Check its site |
| Downdetector | Free public site | No alerts product for small teams | Crowd reports, not vendor data |
| RSS or Atom feeds | Free | None | You build the alerting |
Who each one suits
IsDown is a dedicated vendor status aggregator. It fits teams that are fine starting at $49 for 30 monitors.
StatusGator is another dedicated aggregator. Its pricing page did not load when we checked, so look at its current plans directly.
Downdetector is useful for a quick look at user reports, but it does not alert you about the vendors you depend on.
Feeds in a reader or a script cost nothing. You maintain the parser and the routing, and many status pages format feeds differently.
Outage Clock reads official status pages, sends alerts to email, Slack or Teams, and lets you filter by component. It suits small teams that depend on a few dozen services.
How to choose
List the vendors your product cannot run without. If it is five or fewer, start with a free option. Past that, compare the price per vendor at your count and check that the components you care about can be filtered.