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 2026-09-16T12:28:20Z. State is what the vendor publishes, not our measurement.
91 of 761 vendors that answered are not fully operational as of the last poll, worst first — the full board lists all 91 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 14 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 14,657 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 (27.0 h), Qualys (25.6 h), Ionos Cloud (23.2 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 lands in your Slack, Discord, Teams or JSON webhook — plus one digest every 24 hours so silence never means broken.
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 by our scheduled runner. Incident opened / updated / resolved events posted to the webhook you paste at checkout (Slack and Discord get native formatting, Teams an Adaptive Card, anything else plain JSON).
- A first message 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.
One payment, no auto-renewal, no card kept on file. Full refund within 14 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? 201 of 201 scheduled runs finished in the last 24 h, last at 2026-09-16 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 monthsComparison, honestly: IsDown starts at $22/mo billed annually, ~5,900 vendors, SMS paging; StatusGator from $72/mo. Both have free tiers: IsDown a 14-day trial, StatusGator a free-forever plan capped at 3 monitors and 10 notifications a month — enough to try, not enough to watch a real stack. Our map is a fifth their size. If you need thousands of vendors or phone paging, buy one of them. If you want the 5–20 vendors you depend on watched by code you can read in one sitting, with an open dataset behind it — this is that.
Not 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.
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.
