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GDPR Compliance Step 1: Data Erasure and Portability

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Recently, a StatusGator user on our 14-day free trial contacted us to inquire if StatusGator was GDPR compliant. The General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is the European Union’s regulation that grants rights and requirements over personal data. Although we’ve been following the GDPR and its rollout for some time now, we haven’t taken active steps to comply with its requirements. We are...

Your Status Page is Awesome!

That’s right. You’ve nailed it. Your status page rocks. You’re doing all the things right, and so your status page is awesome. Here is why: It is Accessible Your status page is available to the public. Search engines crawl and index your status page. It’s easy to find. When there are problems with your service, your users don’t need to go searching through emails to...

How to Save Precious Minutes During Incident Response

StatusGator notifies you when status pages change. But the most overlooked feature of it might just be the unified status page that displays the status of every service you depend on. This can save precious minutes during a frantic incident response. An Idea Is Born The original idea of StatusGator was born out of a day of frustration. After spending hours debugging a problem with a...

Under The Hood: Inside a Status Page Aggregator

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StatusGator is a status page aggregator. We monitor the world’s status pages and provide an all-in-one status page that tracks the status pages each user cares about. But how do we collect and normalize all this data? To get started with StatusGator, you choose the services you already use from our list. For each service, you select the specific components from their status pages that you depend...

Your Status Page Is Useless if You Don’t Use It

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Over the past several years, status pages have become more and more commonplace. They are not just a feature of the behemoth cloud providers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, but common among the multitudinous rank-and-file SaaS companies that every modern business depends on. Having a well-maintained status page is not just a luxury anymore. A status page is a requirement for running a...

Component Status Filtering Is Here

One of our most requested features has made StatusGator more useful than ever before. StatusGator has been monitoring hundreds of status pages since 2015. Currently, the number of services that users can display on their product or application status page is more than 2,800 vendors. Our aim has always been to aggregate the published status of the cloud services you depend on, making it available...

Deploying a Cachet Status Page to DigitalOcean

If you’ve considered having a status page for your service but are discouraged by the pricing of status page services – consider running an open-source status page system like Cachet. This post explains how to install and configure a Cachet status page on the popular DigitalOcean hosting platform. You can run Cachet on DigitalOcean for as little as $5/ month. Create Your Droplet If...

The First Annual StatusGator Status Page Awards

First Annual StatusGator Status Page Awards

StatusGator monitors 411 different status pages, amassing a mountain of data about each. From when they are down and for how long, to what they post, to which pages people monitor the most and everything in between. Using that data, we are proud to present the first of an annual reflection on the past year. The First Annual StatusGator Status Page Awards seeks to applaud (and perhaps gently...

Improve Heroku Geolocation Performance With the GEOLITE2 Buildpack

Recently, we began using IP geolocation within StatusGator to learn where are users are located. We are happy to say that it’s working out well.  We hoped to use these insights to tune our marketing. To that end, we added the Ahoy gem to help collect information related to how our advertising campaigns are going.  The Ahoy gem  also uses the geolocation gem to look up IP addresses.  This...

Hardening Against Future S3 Outages

Introduction On February 28, 2017, Amazon S3 in the us-east-1 region suffered an outage for several hours, impacting huge swaths of the internet. StatusGator was impacted, though I was able to mitigate some of the more serious effects pretty quickly and StatusGator remained up and running, reporting status page changes through the event. Since StatusGator is a destination for people when the...