# Gatus vs Prometheus Blackbox Exporter

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Gatus

| Attribute | Gatus | Prometheus Blackbox Exporter |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 63.1 (52% (medium)) | 47.2 (55% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 13 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 17 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 5,841 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A platform for tracking service health across websites, APIs, and infrastructure. It detects outages automatically, publishes real-time status pages, and alerts teams via multiple channels. | An open-source exporter for Prometheus that monitors the health and responsiveness of network services by sending test requests over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, TCP, ICMP, and gRPC protocols. Results are exposed as metrics for collection by Prometheus. |
| integrations.count | 24 | 1 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Google Chat"},{"name":"Gotify"},{"name":"Matrix"},{"name":"Mattermost"},{"name":"n8n"},{"name":"Ntfy"},{"name":"Opsgenie"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Gitea"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Messagebird"},{"name":"Pushover"},{"name":"AWS SES"},{"name":"ilert"},{"name":"Incident.io"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Twilio"},{"name":"SIGNL4"},{"name":"Custom"}]` | `[{"name":"Prometheus"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$10/month","features":["HTTP, ICMP, DNS, TCP, UDP, TLS, SCTP, SSH, gRPC, WebSocket monitoring","Status code, response body/JSONPath, certificate expiration, domain expiration conditions","Response time and connection monitoring","Slack, Teams, Telegram, Discord, Google Chat, Gotify, Matrix, Mattermost, n8n, Ntfy, Opsgenie, Email, Gitea, GitHub, GitLab integrations","Static egress IP for firewall whitelisting","Custom domain support","Uptime, response time, health badges","Private status pages"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor most of their services","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"status_pages":"None","team_members":"None","suites_per_page":"0","check_interval_min":"2m","endpoints_per_page":"30","alerts_per_endpoint":"2","events_per_endpoint":"50","results_per_endpoint":"100","conditions_per_endpoint":"5","audit_log_retention_days":"14"}},{"free":false,"name":"Premium","summary":"$20/month","features":["All Standard features","Push-based monitoring","Incident announcements","Additional integrations: Messagebird, Pushover, AWS SES, ilert, Incident.io, PagerDuty, Twilio, SIGNL4"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor all of their services","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"status_pages":"2","team_members":"5","suites_per_page":"5","check_interval_min":"1m","endpoints_per_page":"50","alerts_per_endpoint":"3","events_per_endpoint":"50","results_per_endpoint":"100","conditions_per_endpoint":"10","audit_log_retention_days":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"$50/month","features":["All Premium features","Metrics dashboard","Single Sign-On (SSO)","Custom CSS","Custom integrations"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For those looking to monitor multiple business-critical services across several products","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"status_pages":"3","team_members":"25","suites_per_page":"25","check_interval_min":"30s","endpoints_per_page":"100","alerts_per_endpoint":"10","events_per_endpoint":"50","results_per_endpoint":"500","conditions_per_endpoint":"20","audit_log_retention_days":"90"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$500/month","commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $10/month. Free 7-day trial.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://gatus.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:21:07.998Z","freeTrialDays":7,"startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Open-source (no licensing cost)","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-17T21:36:10.400Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 122 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.28.0","date":"2025-12-06T13:32:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.28.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.27.0","date":"2025-06-30T13:45:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.27.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.26.0","date":"2025-02-26T13:51:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.26.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.25.0","date":"2024-04-09T13:30:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.25.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.24.0","date":"2023-05-16T11:23:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.24.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.23.0","date":"2022-12-02T20:59:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.23.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.22.0","date":"2022-08-02T14:26:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.22.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.1","date":"2022-06-23T16:09:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0","date":"2022-05-30T15:06:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.21.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.21.0-rc.0","date":"2022-05-11T11:14:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.21.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0","date":"2022-03-16T23:52:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.20.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.20.0-rc.0","date":"2022-02-17T20:34:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.20.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.19.0","date":"2021-05-10T13:18:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.19.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.18.0","date":"2020-10-12T10:13:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.18.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.17.0","date":"2020-06-19T12:14:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.16.0","date":"2019-11-11T18:16:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.1","date":"2019-09-17T12:52:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.15.0","date":"2019-09-11T13:09:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.14.0","date":"2019-03-15T13:49:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter/releases/tag/v0.13.0","date":"2018-12-04T15:20:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.13.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 7 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fprometheus%2Fblackbox_exporter&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (API Monitoring)

| Capability | Gatus | Prometheus Blackbox Exporter |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Multi region probes | - | - |
| Private location agent | - | - |
| Status page hosting | - | - |
| Json schema assertions | - | - |
| Monitoring as code | - | - |
| Multistep API flows | - | - |
| Heartbeat deadmans switch | - | - |
| Self hostable | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:47:06.354Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*