SaaS outage alerts in your Slack — self-hosted, open data, $0.
IsDown and StatusGator sell vendor-outage alerting from $264 a year. This is the free, MIT version: a GitHub Action in your account that polls the status pages of the vendors you name and posts opened/updated/resolved incidents to your Slack, Discord or Teams. Behind it, a map of 1,127 SaaS status pages (804 machine-readable), re-probed daily, open data. Rather not run it? We host it for $49 / 12 months.
Recomputed daily from the vendors' own status APIs; last poll 2026-09-24T12:28:39Z. State is what the vendor publishes, not our measurement.
76 of 760 vendors that answered are not fully operational as of the last poll, worst first — the full board lists all 76 with charts, vendors.html all 1,127.
Who you would be paying. Vendor Status Watch is run by APVentureEngine, an automated open-source project — not affiliated with any vendor named here. Payments and receipts: Gumroad, Inc. is the seller of record. There is no sales team and no phone number: questions, bug reports and purchase issues go to public GitHub issues (usually answered within a day) or a reply to your Gumroad receipt. Full refund within 30 days, no auto-renewal — privacy, terms & refunds.
Is my vendor watchable?
How long do these outages actually last?
Every vendor posts a start time and a resolve time. Nobody adds them up. We do: across 15,172 incidents that carry both, the median runs 2.3 h and one in ten runs past 28.1 h. Slowest to resolve in the last 90 days: Exact (27.4 h), Qualys (26.3 h), Luno (23.9 h).
Two ways to run it
Self-hosted action or template
Runs on your GitHub account's free Actions minutes (a 5-minute schedule uses about a third of a free plan). You own the repo, the secret and the history. MIT, no telemetry.
Set it up — four minutes Get the actionHosted watch
We run the watcher for you: your vendors' public status pages are checked every 5 minutes, and every incident opened, updated or resolved appears in your own private feed within minutes — plus one check-in every 24 hours, so a quiet feed is a working feed rather than an ambiguous one.
Who this is for. For teams that cannot or will not run a GitHub Action: IT and vendor-management staff without a repo, agencies watching clients' vendors, and companies whose policy forbids third-party actions. If you have a repo and five minutes, the free template above is the same engine.
- Up to 50 vendors from the living map of 1,100+ SaaS status pages; type names at checkout.
- Checked every 5 minutes for a year by a scheduled job in Apify's cloud — not on a laptop, and not dependent on any server of ours staying up.
- Delivered as your own private RSS feed, which you point Slack, Teams, Discord or any reader at. We never ask for a webhook, so we hold no credential of yours.
- A first entry within minutes of purchase naming which vendors matched the map and which did not — nothing is silently unwatched.
- A vendor we cannot read is reported as CANNOT SEE, never as OK; when it is readable again you are told.
- No repo, no GitHub, no YAML, no account with us. Nothing to install.
How it reaches you, and why we never ask for a webhook: an incoming webhook URL is a write credential for your chat workspace, so we do not take one. Your watch gets its own private RSS feed instead, rebuilt every five minutes, and you point your own channel at it.
- Slack — type
/feed subscribe <your feed address>in the channel you want it in — the command is built into Slack, nothing to install - Microsoft Teams — open the Workflows app and pick the template “Post to a channel when an RSS feed is published” (the old connector route is gone: Microsoft retired Office 365 Connectors in Teams in May 2026)
- Discord — Discord has no built-in RSS subscription, so this is the one platform that needs a third-party piece — any free RSS-to-Discord bot, MonitoRSS being the usual one
- Anything else — it is plain RSS 2.0, so Feedly, Inoreader, Thunderbird or six lines of your own code all read it
After checkout you collect your feed address at approjects-vendor-status-watch.static.hf.space/rt.html by entering the email you paid with and the access code you generated — the maths runs in your browser and neither answer is sent to us.
See the format before you buy: a live sample feed built from real incidents, rebuilt daily.
One payment, no auto-renewal, no card kept on file. Full refund within 30 days for any reason — reply to your Gumroad receipt. After that, a pro-rata refund if alerts stop for 7 consecutive days through our fault. Sold through Gumroad, which emails a receipt with amount, date and seller and a Generate-invoice link: you enter your company name, address and VAT/tax ID yourself and download a PDF invoice — no request to us needed. Still running? 288 of 288 scheduled runs finished in the last 24 h, last at 2026-09-24 12:25 UTC — runner health, rebuilt from the schedule's own run log on every build.
Try hosted free — 5 vendors, 30 days, no card Buy the hosted watch — $49 / 12 monthsNot ready to buy?
Start the free 30-day hosted trial — 5 vendors, $0, no card, stops by itself. Or leave an address: we write only when the map or the offer changes materially. The all-vendors RSS feed needs no address at all.
Prefer GitHub to a mailing list? Press Watch → Custom → Releases on the data repo — every daily rebuild is published as a release, so GitHub emails you the day the map changes. No address to give us. See what arrives →
Questions before buying? Open a GitHub issue — public, usually answered within a day.
Free: one line in your own GitHub Actions
Add uses: APVentureEngine/vendor-status-watch-action@v1 to an existing workflow with your vendor slugs and a webhook secret, and you are done. No workflow yet? The template walkthrough is four minutes and every click is written down.
Re-tested 2026-09-24: the published tag is downloaded as you receive it and run end to end — real poll, real webhook, no duplicate on re-run. See the output →
A rendered sample of the alert, built from real incidents, is on the template page.
Honest limits: 323 of 1,127 mapped vendors publish no machine-readable status (Apple, Microsoft 365, Okta); the first run tells you which picks are unsupported. Coverage by platform.
