What is Tinystatus?

Tinystatus is a tiny shell script that generates a static HTML status page for monitoring services. It reads a CSV configuration file defining HTTP, ping, and port checks (with IPv4/IPv6 variants), runs them in parallel using curl, netcat, and ping, and outputs a single ~1 KB HTML file with optional incident history. The generated page supports automatic dark mode via CSS color-scheme and is responsive. Users clone the repository, edit checks.csv and incidents.txt, run the script periodically (e.g., via cron), and serve the resulting index.html with any web server. It has minimal dependencies (curl, nc, ping, coreutils) and is licensed under MIT.

Should you self-host Tinystatus?

Tinystatus scores 45/100 on selfhost.directory (how scoring works) and ranks #37 of 51 in Monitoring & observability. It has 515 GitHub stars.

There was no stable release in the past 12 months, so check the repository's recent activity before you rely on it.

Setup is easy: most people get it running in one sitting. It is MIT-licensed and written mostly in Shell.

Its closest alternative on selfhost.directory is GoAccess (75/100, 21 091 stars). It scores higher overall, so compare the two before you pick. See Tinystatus vs GoAccess side by side.