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RealUptime Outages vs StatusGator

StatusGator is a status-page aggregator: by its own support documentation, it polls the official status pages of thousands of service providers roughly every five minutes and normalizes them into one dashboard, falling back to an undisclosed anomaly-detection signal for vendors without a status page. RealUptime Outages starts from a different data source entirely: our own probes measure every tracked service directly, from four regions, whether or not the vendor has said anything.

The short version

StatusGator tells you what thousands of vendors say about themselves; RealUptime Outages tells you what we independently measured.

StatusGator has earned its scale: thousands of vendors, a decade of history, and a mature integration list make it a genuinely useful mirror of what providers publish. But a mirror is what it is. By its own documentation, the core data source is the vendor's status page, and vendors are famously slow to update those during real incidents; when a page goes silent, StatusGator shows the last known status. RealUptime Outages runs its own checks from four regions against every service it tracks, publishes exactly how those measurements become an outage call, and keeps unverified user reports visibly separate from measured data. If you want the broadest possible vendor list, StatusGator is strong. If you want to know what is actually happening right now, independent of what a vendor chose to publish, that is the gap we built this product to close.

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Verified August 24, 2026. Sources: StatusGator support: how StatusGator monitors services, StatusGator support: what StatusGator is and how it works, StatusGator plans, RealUptime Outages methodology.

Independent probing of tracked services

Have

our own probes check every catalog service from four regions, independent of vendor claims

Don’t have

its docs state it relies on official status pages rather than independently probing services; the one exception is an undisclosed early-warning signal

Per-region measured readings

Have

each outage page shows what every probe region measured

Don’t have

no per-region check data is published or exposed

Published detection methodology

Have

the full method, thresholds included, is public at /outages/methodology

Partial

support docs explain the polling model, but the early-warning detection algorithm is not disclosed

Vendor coverage breadth

Partial

a curated catalog, every entry actively probed; far narrower than StatusGator today

Have

self-reported 4,000+ cloud providers tracked since 2015; genuinely the broadest list in this category

Free access to outage data

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every outage page is public, free, and unmetered; no ads or trackers

Partial

free plan capped at 3 monitors, 1 month of history, and 10 notifications a month

Looking for a StatusGator alternative?

For the reasoning behind checking from more than one region at all, see why a status page can show all green during a real outage. Comparing more than just this one alternative? The status page tool checklist covers what to test before committing to any of them.

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