# Companies that use Instatus

As of October 2026, 547 companies show public evidence of using Instatus (Status pages), according to runsonwhat.

- Tool: [Instatus](https://instatus.com), category [Monitoring](https://www.runsonwhat.com/tools/monitoring)
- Companies using it now: 547
- Stopped using it (seen on a same-method rescan): 0
- Started in the last 30 days: 2

## Who uses Instatus

Segments where Instatus customers are more common than among all companies we track:

- Software: 6.6× more likely (137 customers)
- Telecommunications: 4.2× more likely (28 customers)
- Internet: 3.5× more likely (39 customers)
- 1–10 employees: 3.2× more likely (27 customers)
- IT Services: 1.4× more likely (60 customers)

## Instatus customers by industry

| Industry | Share of customers |
|---|---|
| Software | 38% |
| IT Services | 16% |
| Internet | 11% |
| Telecommunications | 7.7% |
| Financial Services | 7.4% |
| B2B | 1.6% |
| Engineering, Product and Design | 1.6% |
| Healthcare | 1.6% |

## Instatus customers by company size

| Company size | Share of customers |
|---|---|
| 1–10 employees | 6.3% |
| 11–50 employees | 51% |
| 51–200 employees | 28% |
| 201–1,000 employees | 11% |
| 1,001–5,000 employees | 2.3% |
| 5,001–10,000 employees | 0.23% |
| 10,000+ employees | 0.70% |

## Instatus customers by country

| Country | Share of customers |
|---|---|
| United States | 51% |
| United Kingdom | 8.7% |
| Netherlands | 6.3% |
| Germany | 4.8% |
| Canada | 4.1% |
| Sweden | 3.1% |
| Brazil | 2.7% |
| Australia | 2.2% |

## Alternatives to Instatus

| Tool | Companies |
|---|---|
| [Sentry](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/sentry) | 68,521 |
| [web-vitals](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/web-vitals) | 22,689 |
| [New Relic](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/newrelic) | 15,393 |
| [Datadog](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/datadog) | 10,642 |
| [Bugsnag](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/bugsnag) | 7,021 |
| [Atlassian Statuspage](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/statuspage) | 6,446 |
| [Akamai mPulse](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/akamai-mpulse) | 5,041 |
| [Dynatrace](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/dynatrace) | 4,266 |
| [UptimeRobot](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/uptimerobot) | 2,955 |
| [Better Stack](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/betterstack) | 2,577 |

## Instatus customers also use

- [Mintlify](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/mintlify): 4.4% of Instatus customers, 44× the average company
- [ReadMe](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/readme): 4.6% of Instatus customers, 42× the average company
- [Vanta](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/vanta): 9.9% of Instatus customers, 41× the average company
- [SafeBase](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/safebase): 3.5% of Instatus customers, 34× the average company
- [HubSpot App Developer](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/hubspot-developer): 6.4% of Instatus customers, 27× the average company
- [Tailscale](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/tailscale): 3.1% of Instatus customers, 27× the average company
- [Trusted Shops](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/trusted-shops): 6.1% of Instatus customers, 24× the average company
- [GitBook](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/gitbook): 4.4% of Instatus customers, 23× the average company
- [Cursor](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/cursor): 11% of Instatus customers, 19× the average company
- [Notion](https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/notion): 7.6% of Instatus customers, 18× the average company

## Companies that use Instatus (first 40 of 547)

| Company | Domain | Industry | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Gcore](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/gcore.com) | gcore.com |  |  |
| [HF](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/h-f.co.uk) | h-f.co.uk | Legal Services | United Kingdom |
| [Kartverket.no](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/kartverket.no) | kartverket.no | Government Administration | Norway |
| [KX: Vector Database, Time Series And Real Time Analytics](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/kx.com) | kx.com | Software | United States |
| [Own Company](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/owndata.com) | owndata.com | Computer & Network Security | United States |
| [Swan](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/swan.io) | swan.io | Banking | France |
| [Wherobots](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/wherobots.com) | wherobots.com | Software | United States |
| [2K](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/2k.com) | 2k.com |  |  |
| [Connectrans](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/connectrans.com) | connectrans.com | Logistics and Supply Chain | Canada |
| [Fastenal](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/fastenal.com) | fastenal.com |  | United States |
| [Gecko Robotics](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/geckorobotics.com) | geckorobotics.com | Manufacturing and Robotics | United States |
| [Highlevel](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/gohighlevel.com) | gohighlevel.com | Software | United States |
| [Impact Care](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/impactcarehq.com) | impactcarehq.com | Healthcare | United States |
| [JSI](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/jsitel.com) | jsitel.com | Telecommunications | United States |
| [関西学院大学](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/kwansei.ac.jp) | kwansei.ac.jp | Higher Education | Japan |
| [Lidl Gb](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/lidl.co.uk) | lidl.co.uk | Retail | United Kingdom |
| [OneOcean](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/oceantg.com) | oceantg.com | Software | United Kingdom |
| [OwnBackup](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/ownbackup.com) | ownbackup.com |  |  |
| [Bluesky Social](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/bsky.app) | bsky.app |  |  |
| [IETF](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/ietf.org) | ietf.org | Computer Networking | United States |
| [Le Figaro](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/lefigaro.fr) | lefigaro.fr |  |  |
| [Discogs](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/discogs.com) | discogs.com |  |  |
| [Polymarket](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/polymarket.com) | polymarket.com | Software | United States |
| [Mastodon](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/mastodon.social) | mastodon.social |  |  |
| [Cometchat](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/cometchat.io) | cometchat.io |  |  |
| [Mediavine](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/mediavine.com) | mediavine.com |  |  |
| [Wistia](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/wistia.com) | wistia.com |  |  |
| [Code.org](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/code.org) | code.org | Primary/secondary Education | United States |
| [Gamma](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/gamma.app) | gamma.app |  |  |
| [GrowthBook](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/growthbook.io) | growthbook.io | Analytics | United States |
| [Optable](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/optable.co) | optable.co |  |  |
| [Higgsfield](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/higgsfield.ai) | higgsfield.ai | Text-to-video Generation | United States |
| [Decodo](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/decodo.com) | decodo.com | IT Services | Lithuania |
| [Flashbots](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/flashbots.net) | flashbots.net | Computer & Network Security | Cayman Islands |
| [Trusted Shops](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/trustedshops.com) | trustedshops.com |  | Germany |
| [AppFolio, Inc.](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/appfolio.com) | appfolio.com | Software | United States |
| [1rpc](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/1rpc.io) | 1rpc.io |  |  |
| [Narvar](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/narvar.com) | narvar.com | Internet | United States |
| [Joinmastodon](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/joinmastodon.org) | joinmastodon.org |  |  |
| [Cloudez](https://www.runsonwhat.com/company/cloudez.io) | cloudez.io | IT Services | United States |

The full list is on https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/instatus for signed-in users.

## FAQ

### How many companies use Instatus?

As of October 2026, 547 companies show public evidence of using Instatus across the 1,791,133 company domains runsonwhat tracks. That makes Instatus the 16th most used of the 39 Monitoring tools with confirmed customers, behind incident.io (736). 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 (16%). The full list of 547 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 (16%) and internet (11%), based on the 364 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 428 companies with a known size, 57% have up to 50 employees, 39% 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 (51%), the United Kingdom (8.7%) and the Netherlands (6.3%), out of 413 companies with a known country. Outside the United States, the biggest markets are the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

### Is Instatus gaining or losing customers?

In the 90 days to October 2026, 3 companies started using Instatus and 0 companies stopped, a net gain of 3. runsonwhat counts a start or a stop only between two checks of the same company done the same way, so a change in how a site is scanned never shows up as churn.

### Instatus vs Sentry: which is more widely used?

Sentry is more widely used: 74,483 companies show public evidence of Sentry, against 547 for Instatus (136× 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 (74,483), web-vitals (24,410), New Relic (15,951) and Datadog (10,911), 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, ReadMe and Vanta far more often than the average company. For example, 4.4% of Instatus customers also run Mintlify, 44× the rate among all companies runsonwhat tracks, and 4.6% run ReadMe.

### How long have companies been using Instatus?

At least 53 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.


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Source: runsonwhat, https://www.runsonwhat.com/reverse/instatus (updated October 2026). Counts are companies with direct public evidence of the tool (DNS records, certificates, website code, a real-browser crawl, subprocessor lists), so they are lower bounds. Methodology: https://www.runsonwhat.com/methodology.