AuthorColin Bartlett

Colin Bartlett is co-founder of Nimble Industries, creators of StatusGator and Washtub. He has been building web applications, managing software development projects, and leading engineering teams for 22 years.

January product updates

We are thrilled to unveil the first round of updates for StatusGator in 2024, bringing a ton of new enhancements to the product. Let’s explore the latest additions and improvements introduced last month: Introducing the enhanced Status embed integration Explore various embed styles, ranging from sleek minimalism to striking prominence, to align with your website’s aesthetic and your...

K-12 Status Pages – How to Reduce Ticket Burden for K-12 Schools

In 2024, the average K-12 school or educational institution relies on many cloud providers, hosted services, and websites. Quite often, the services these K-12 schools rely on exceed over 40 different platforms – from communication tools like Zoom to learning management systems (LMS) such as Canvas or Blackboard. With this many services, the ticket burden on K-12 system admins and IT teams can be...

5 Cloud Outages Tracker Tools To Monitor Vendors in 2024

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Whether you’re a business owner, a tech enthusiast, or simply a user who relies on cloud services for daily tasks, the cloud outage tracker can be a useful tool. It informs you of downtime, degraded performance, and maintenance of services that modern businesses rely on. Here’s the list of cloud outage tracker tools that can help you prepare for and mitigate the effects of inevitable...

StatusGator Alternatives in 2024

statusGator alternatives in 2024

In this realm of cloud and SaaS service uptime, StatusGator offers unparalleled monitoring of nearly 3,000 services. This article delves into the alternatives to StatusGator in 2024, but first, let’s understand what sets StatusGator apart. Unlike typical status page aggregators, StatusGator offers advanced status aggregation with unique capabilities. StatusGator collects the status of...

December product updates

With the holiday season just around the corner, we’re sending one final update with a host of improvements to StatusGator. Give these updates a spin in the New Year or if you have a moment now before the holidays, read on and see what’s new in StatusGator in December: More granularity in Adobe monitoring The generic Adobe service has been split to allow more precise monitoring. Now...

20 Best Cloud Monitoring Tools

When it comes to the best cloud monitoring tools, there are various services you can rely on or choose to support your IT infrastructure. After all, cloud monitoring is critical to ensure the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud services.  Numerous teams in modern IT, SaaS, and app development companies, including DevOps, SREs, and security analysts depend on cloud monitoring...

November product updates

I’m happy to announce new updates to StatusGator that make your experience even better. Let’s take a look at what’s new this month: Enhanced Website Monitoring Experience StatusGator website monitors now allow various HTTP methods and request headers! This customization allows for precise monitoring of websites. With POST, PUT, and PATCH requests, in addition to the usual GET...

10 Best StatusHub Alternatives For Incident Communication and Monitoring in 2023

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Before we dive into the best StatusHub alternatives, let’s quickly recap the tool’s capabilities. In short, StatusHub is an IT incident communication tool. As indicated by its name, StatusHub is focused on creating and managing status pages. Users get to leverage their connected hub of status pages to communicate system statuses, incidents, and maintenance updates to different audiences...

10 Top Help Desk and IT Asset Management Software for K-12

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In 2023, K-12 schools are becoming more dependent on technology than ever before to enhance students’ learning experiences. The use of devices in teaching has seen a significant rise. For example, 42% of teachers used technology daily in 2016, but in 2019 this number rose to 67%. Given this surge in tech usage, IT administrators in K-12 schools face the challenge of managing these assets...

11 Best Help Desk Software for Schools and K12 in 2023

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In the world of K-12 education, IT teams often face a flood of daily support requests. Without proper organization, this can overwhelm them. That’s where help desk software for schools comes in.  Designed for K-12, these IT solutions streamline support and ticketing for schools. Whether it’s a student, teacher, parent, or administrator reaching out, everything is neatly organized...