Autessa Status Page vs Instatus
Autessa Status Page vs Instatus
Autessa Status Page is a hosted status page and changelog, ready out of the box and run from one staff console. Instatus pairs fast status pages with monitoring, on-call and a capable MCP server of its own. Autessa Status Page is a status page and changelog your team runs: people decide every status change, and AI drafts the release notes for a person to approve.
Side by side
Autessa Status Page and Instatus at a glance
| Capability | Autessa Status Page | Instatus |
|---|---|---|
| Public changelog drafted by AI from merged pull requests | Drafted nightly | Not listed |
| Person approves every release note, enforced on the server | Included | Not listed |
| See the original AI draft beside your edits | Included | Not listed |
| Resolving one incident never hides another | Overlap-aware restore | Not listed |
| Choose which repositories feed the release notes | Included | Not listed |
| Full headless access (Autessa MCP) | Included | Own MCP server, read and write |
| 100% customizable, code and all (Autobot) | Included | Branding; API |
| Your own domain | Included | Pro plan and up |
| Hosted public status page | Included | Included |
| Incident updates from Investigating to Resolved | Included | Included |
| Scheduled maintenance notices | Included | Included |
Based on publicly available information as of November 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Where Autessa wins
Why teams pick Autessa Status Page over Instatus
✓ Autessa
A changelog that writes its first draft
Pick your repositories and tomorrow morning there is a draft for customers, grouped by what they would notice.
✓ Autessa
Every word checked
Reviewers see the source pull requests and the original AI draft next to the edited wording before anything goes live.
✓ Autessa
Change the product, not only the look
Instatus lets you make a page yours. Autobot changes the app itself, code and all, such as a new component view or an approval step on incidents.
✓ Autessa
One MCP for status and everything else
Instatus’s MCP server is strong for status pages. The Autessa MCP also reaches your other Autessa apps, so Claude can read a support thread and draft the incident update.
Switching
Moving from Instatus to Autessa Status Page
- Step 1
Add your components
List the parts of your service customers rely on, with a one-line description each.
- Step 2
Point your domain
Publish the public site on a domain you choose, such as status.yourcompany.com.
- Step 3
Switch on the changelog
Pick the GitHub repositories that feed release notes and the reviewers who approve them.
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FAQ
Questions about Autessa and Instatus
Is Autessa Status Page an alternative to Instatus?
Yes. Autessa Status Page is status page software with incident communication, scheduled maintenance, 90-day uptime history and a human-approved changelog drafted from pull requests. It works out of the box, and because it runs in Autessa you can shape it to how your company works.
Who decides what the status page says?
Your team. Every status change is posted in Status Admin, so the public page always says what a person decided to tell customers.
Can I see a live example?
Yes. Autessa runs its own status page and changelog on it at status.autessa.com.
Instatus has an MCP server. What does the Autessa MCP add?
Instatus’s server covers incidents, maintenance and subscribers. The Autessa MCP gives Claude and other AI tools full headless access to Status Admin and the changelog, and to your other Autessa apps, with the access of the person connected.
Can we customize the status page?
Yes. Autessa Status Page is 100% customizable, and Autobot changes its code from a plain-language request.
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Status Page fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
Start free and make it yours