How many companies use Instatus?
As of October 2026, 543 companies show public evidence of using Instatus across the 1,789,068 company domains runsonwhat tracks. That makes Instatus the 16th most used of the 39 Monitoring tools with confirmed customers, behind incident.io (732). The number is a lower bound: a company counts only when a public record, such as a DNS entry or Instatus' code on its website, shows the tool in use.
Which companies use Instatus?
Companies that use Instatus include Bluesky Social, IETF, Le Figaro, Discogs and Polymarket, according to runsonwhat's public-record scans (October 2026). The biggest industries among Instatus customers are software (38%) and IT services (17%). The full list of 543 companies can be filtered by industry, company size and country on runsonwhat's Instatus page.
What industries use Instatus the most?
The industries with the most Instatus customers are software (38%), IT services (17%) and internet (11%), based on the 360 companies with a known industry. Relative to all companies runsonwhat tracks, Instatus stands out most in software (6.6× the average rate) and telecommunications (4.2× the average rate).
Is Instatus more popular with startups or large companies?
Instatus is used mostly by small companies: of the 423 companies with a known size, 57% have up to 50 employees, 40% have 51 to 1,000 and 3.3% have more than 1,000. Compared with all companies runsonwhat tracks, Instatus is 3.2× as common among companies with 1–10 employees.
Which countries use Instatus the most?
Most Instatus customers runsonwhat has found are based in the United States (50%), the United Kingdom (8.6%) and the Netherlands (6.2%), out of 406 companies with a known country. Outside the United States, the biggest markets are the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Instatus vs Sentry: which is more widely used?
Sentry is more widely used: 66,263 companies show public evidence of Sentry, against 543 for Instatus (122× as many), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). 56 companies run both, which is 10% of Instatus' customers.
What are the most popular alternatives to Instatus?
By the number of companies using them, the most used Monitoring tools other than Instatus are Sentry (66,263), web-vitals (22,043), New Relic (15,185) and Datadog (10,545), according to runsonwhat (October 2026). Not every tool in a category does the same job, so check each one's page; runsonwhat ranks all Monitoring tools at https://www.runsonwhat.com/tools/monitoring.
What other tools do Instatus customers use?
Instatus customers use Mintlify, Vanta and ReadMe far more often than the average company. For example, 4.4% of Instatus customers also run Mintlify, 28× the rate among all companies runsonwhat tracks, and 9.4% run Vanta.
How long have companies been using Instatus?
At least 31 companies that use Instatus today have done so since before 2026, going by the first certificate of the subdomain each one points at Instatus. The earliest go back to 2020.
How does runsonwhat know a company uses Instatus?
runsonwhat reads public records only. For Instatus, that means a subdomain that points at Instatus or Instatus on the company's own subprocessor list. A company is listed only when one of these direct records is present, and each match keeps the record it came from. DNS is rechecked weekly and websites about monthly.
MintlifySupport & Docs28×more likely
VantaSecurity & Compliance25×more likely
ReadMeSupport & Docs24×more likely
Maven CentralDev Tools22×more likely
SafeBaseSecurity & Compliance21×more likely
Trusted ShopsMarketing20×more likely
TailscaleSecurity & Compliance17×more likely
HubSpot App DeveloperDev Tools17×more likely
GitBookSupport & Docs14×more likely
CursorDev Tools11×more likely
IntercomSupport & Docs9.8×more likely
VercelHosting & Cloud6.1×more likely
