#22 in Monitoring & ObservabilityUpdated 2026-08

Cachet

by Cachet · Open source, self-hosted status page system

51 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Cachet is an open source status page system for communicating downtime and outages to customers. It is self-hosted, and incidents can be created through a JSON API so monitoring tools can post updates automatically. It also covers scheduled maintenance, custom metrics charts, two-factor authentication and 10+ languages.

Best for: Teams that want to self-host a status page for telling customers about outages
Pricing: Free — Cachet is open source and self-hosted, with optional GitHub sponsorship and a professional installation service whose price is not shown.
Runs on: WebSelf-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Open source and free to self-host on your own infrastructure
JSON API for creating incidents from monitoring tools
Interface available in 10+ languages
Two-factor authentication and password manager support

Trade-offs

Self-hosted only; no hosted version is offered on the site
Version 3 is still being rebuilt, with 2.x and 3.x demos side by side
Installation help is a separate service with no price published
Funded by sponsorship, so support depends on volunteer effort

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 60 out of 100
API quality: 30 out of 100
Documentation: 80 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 71 out of 100
Changelog: 25 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 60 out of 100
Operational trust: 0 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 55 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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