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Freshstatus by Freshworks — Better statuspage, in 1-click, FREE forever 🔥
Freshstatus enables businesses to communicate incidents, maintenances and status updates
- 1-Click and easy
- 250 subscribers in the free plan
- Unlimited incidents, maintenance and automation
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Vignesh kumar Rk
Why should I pick Freshstatus over Statuspage or other status pages?
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@vignesh_rk_ Fair question: in most status page products, you have to either host it yourself or pay a bomb like @statuspageio (29$-1499$) to get a simple hosted status page. Our promise is you can create status page in 1-click & it will be super intuitive. Also we promise to keep it FREE FOREVER for upto 250 subscribers & 5 team members.
@connectshyam Awesome - would be great if we could migrate our Freshping status page to Freshstatus somehow...
@shan_shylesh1 @batsirai You can ping us using the in-app chat widget that you can find at the right bottom corner after you log into freshstatus app or jus send us your expectation (usecase) via email to support@freshstatus.io. Hope this helps.
Hello folks,
Here is the Freshstatus story....
We had got a lot of requests from small & medium sized businesses to improve @freshping 's status page capabilities. We looked around and the best statuspage builder in the market was very very very very very pricey... between 29$ - 1499$ per month and it required 15+ clicks to configure & publish a simple status page. Damn !!
We thought why should small businesses pay so much for a status page ? and
why should it be so complex to create a status page ?
Here is our first attempt at solving the above problem:
Announcing to you FRESHSTATUS( https://www.freshworks.com/statu... ).
A statuspage builder FREE forever. You can create your branded status pages in just 1-click and we host it for you & allow you to post unlimited incidents, maintenance updates to your customers in realtime & all this is FREE.
Freshstatus also enables businesses to
- showcase reliability & high availability % of websites, servers, apis etc
- keep all internal stakeholders like support teams, website teams updated about system statuses & outages
- get insights and analytics from the incidents like how frequently outages happen & how is the mean time to resolve incidents improving over time etc.
Freshstatus allows you to setup unlimited services, incidents and maintenance updates and lets you have up to 250 subscribers, 5 users & unlimited internal team members.
We're in early-access phase, please bear with us, if you see any issues. We are actively working on improving Freshstatus as we speak. Do give Freshstatus a try & help us improve the product.
Feel free to share your inputs via comments below or via in-app chat on
- What you love about the product
- What you want us to improve in the product
Looking forward to your honest comments & suggestions below.
Sincerely,
Shyam (Product Maker @freshworksinc )
@freshping @statuspageio @freshworksinc @connectshyam
When will integration with Freshping be available? Will this integration be free or paid?
@freshping @freshworksinc @jhult we are working on the freshping integration, should be out within a month. We haven't yet decided on the pricing plan for this integration yet. @jhult Could you elaborate the usecases you are expecting in the freshping
integration ? It will help us improve the integration.
@connectshyam Freshping has its own status page functionality. If the integration is free, then I'd drop the Freshping status page and report similar status info using Freshstatus.
@jhult Got it. Thats our intent as well. Freshping status page is very limited, you can't post any manual updates. The page is fully automated. Freshping is really strong at monitoring & alerting. Our customers wanted full control of their status pages, when to communicate a service as down or up, what note should go along with it etc. Hence we decided to spin freshstatus as a separate product. Once we have the freshping integration, you won't need the freshping powered statuspages. Will be sending all our customers an update via email as soon as we have the integration in place. Thanks for sharing the usecase.
@freshping @freshworksinc @connectshyam You are doing a wonderful job. Thanks alot for empowering all small businesses.
I tried signing up but when I click 'GET STATUS PAGE FOR FREE' nothing happens.
@thiagoafram could you email us a screenshot to support@freshstatus.io to see what issue you are facing. We have close to 200+ signups in the last 1 hour smoothly working. Hence not sure what is happening in your case. Which browser are you using ?
@freshstatusio @connectshyam I tried on incognito and it worked. It must be not compatible with one of my extensions on chrome. All good :)
@freshstatusio @thiagoafram do let us know your thoughts...what you love & what you want improved... it will help us improve the product
@gabriel_porras1 Thanks Gabriel ! Would be eager to understand which products you use & for what usecases ? and any specific improvement suggestions for freshstatus ?
And the best part - it's free. Other competitors charge more than $50 per month for a similar service
@jainaayush05 Thansk Aayush. Any improvements/inputs, do share. It will help us improve Freshstatus
I really liked it, took me a few seconds to figure out what's what, and I really like it.
At the moment there are a few snags, but I'm VERY excited about this product and it's future iterations.
Highly recommend.
@itai_neter Thanks !! We are all ears, pls ping us via inapp chat or via email to support@freshstatus.io do share what you feel needs improvement & we will work on those... Could you share your freshstatus powered statuspage url ? We are collecting a list of statuspage urls of some of our customers to list under "good examples" of statuspages. We could add yours.
Its easy to use i have few cons or dint understand why its there in place
> Why the incident history has years till 2010
> Why the incident history showing previous months, when i created the status page today
Rest looks good!!
Hi @lokesh_ravichandru Thanks for checking us out. To answer your questions, incident and statuses are manually updated as of now in Freshstatus. With backfill incidents (coming soon, we're building it) you can post past incidents and service statuses.
there is no integration with Freshping?
I noticed a few UX issues as well.
Drag and drop services is not allowed in groups. adding a service to a group is hard.
Saving kicks me out every time. I have to go back in edit again
@sithhappensbro No credit card required & the free plan is FREE FOREVER (for upto 250 subscribers) that is one of our promises. Do give the product a try & let us know what you like & what you want us to improve.
Looks interesting. I'm confused by all the different types of people though. Can you explain the difference between a subscriber, user and internal team member?
@luckyrat Users are people in your team, who will be able to login to the application & be able to configure the statuspage layout, post incidents, maintenance updates etc & Internal team (stakeholders) are people in your team who don't need login to the app but who just need to be kept updated about ongoing outages or planned maintenances like say your sales teams or customer support teams etc. As i mentioned, we will rework the names "subscribers, users, internal team members" if this is confusing. Thanks for sharing.
@connectshyam Thanks for the clarification. I guess that my confusion was less about the specific terms being used and more about the general concept of someone "subscribing" to a status page. As far as I'm concerned, a status page is a static location on the internet that I can go to when a service appears to be offline. I'd never considered subscribing to notifications from such a page. It sounds like that subscription approach would be difficult to scale - no doubt 250 subscribers is generous for free but it seems a world away from the reality of even small-scale websites with a few thousand users. Can the "Subscribe" button be disabled? How is hitting the limit of 250 subscribers handled?
I also can't see how the freshping service integrates with this - I only signed up to that a few days ago and then got an email saying there was this upgraded service status page but I can't quite work out how the two similar services relate.
Hi @sathiesh_v
It is possible to automate scheduled maintenance with Freshstatus (Starts automatically, sets services to 'under maintenance' state and back to Operational on completion of maintenance) Also, You can create automated reminders to remind your customers about the upcoming maintenance.
Pros:
- Easy to use
- Easy to setup
- Opportunity to integrate with other services
- Offers custom URL integration
Cons:
- New product; still under development
- Not yet integrated with freshservice/freshdesk for link incidents/problems with downtime or status updates.
- Reminders for scheduled maintenance can not be set to anything more then 1 day prior - would like options to set custom / more advanced reminders.
@dan_brooks thanks for the honest inputs. we are improving freshstatus as we speak.. Schedule maintenance we have automated reminders 1day before, 1hr before, on start, on complete. We thought customers shouldn't be bothered with more than these 4 automated reminders. If a lot of customers are interested in more than 1 day reminder, we will look into it. Do keep sharing your inputs. Thanks loads
Looking forward to seeing what more can be done with this platform.
Pros:- Easy to use - Easy to setup - Opportunity to integrate with other services - Offers custom URL integration
Cons:Not yet integrated with freshservice link incidents/problems with status updates Reminders can't be set to anything more than 1 day prior