Provide some classification? #77
Description
Looking at all the opensource options, it looks to me that some projects are quite "orthogonal" to each other.
What is the source of status updates? (more than one can apply)
- Automated service monitoring
- Manually added outages
- Planned maintenance
Who is the audience of the website? (more than one can apply)
- Internal staff (e.g. only visible after login; no details about outages)
- External users (visible without login, showing information curated for end-users, maybe even possibility for end-users to create account and filter)
How are users notified?
- By looking at the page (duh! :) )
- RSS feed
- E-Mail subscriptions
- Social services (Slack etc.)
Background is that I was looking for a status page for external users who can view outage information and maintenance windows and are able to self-subscribe via both e-mail and RSS.
From the 29 entries listed in the "opensource* section, only 3 (staytus, cachet, darkpixel/statuspage) qualify (unless I missed one or two), and about 5 more can only be definitely ruled out after you installed and tested them yourself and/or looked at the demo page.
I am sure that the page still provides help to many people, but for me, who came from the point to search an alternative for cachet (discontinued) and staytus (slightly buggy as it sometimes does not update the service status when an incident is logged), it became a time hog with effectively no better option than I already knew.
If you like to have this kind of information, How would such information best be added? With icons after the entries? As a table? How to mark "unsure" entries? I am willing to fill in as much as I remember from my journey about the 29 opensource entries and provide a pull request.