OpenStatus Incident Management is an open source incident management tool built for small teams. It sits alongside your monitors and status page, letting you declare incidents from Slack, spin up a dedicated channel per incident, maintain a single timeline, update your status page, and draft postmortems.
Openstatus Incident Management
Incident management for small teams
Openstatus Incident Management Introduction
Key Features
- Declare incidents directly from Slack
- Automatic Slack channel per incident
- Shared incident timeline
- Status page updates
- Postmortem drafting
- Open source
Use Cases
- Coordinating response when monitors alert your team
- Keeping stakeholders informed via a status page
- Documenting incidents and writing postmortems after resolution
Why Startups Use It
Small teams get a lightweight, open source way to run incidents without enterprise overhead—declarations, timelines, status page updates, and postmortems all in one workflow next to their monitoring.
Alternative Options
PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Rootly
Frequently Asked Questions
Is OpenStatus Incident Management free?
The product is open source; consult the website for details on hosted offerings and pricing.
Do I need Slack to use it?
Slack is used for declaring incidents and creating per-incident channels, so a Slack workspace is part of the described workflow.
More About Openstatus Incident Management
PricingPaid
Listed DateOct 26, 2026
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