Introducing status pages by StatusGator: An aggregated status page showing the status of all of your vendors on one page.
Public Dashboards Are Now Status Pages
Historical Status Data Now Available
StatusGator customers on our Corporate plan have long had access to historical cloud status data. In the past, a simple support request was all it took to get a CSV or JSON feed of any cloud service status data. Now, we’ve brought that data into the StatusGator app itself. A new menu item is now available: Reports & Data. StatusGator provides historical cloud status data. From there...
You Can Now Customize the Names of Services in StatusGator
StatusGator aggregated status dashboards can now display a custom service name in status pages.
Status Pages (Dashboards): Now With Dark Mode!
Since we first launched our customizable, brandable, public status pages (previously, dashboards), customers have been asking us for a dark mode version. We’re excited to announce dark mode has arrived! StatusGator is the premier status page aggregator that collects the status of all the services you depend on and organizes them into a handy public status page you can send to your team...
5 Biggest Outages of Q2 2020
Anything bad that can happen — will happen. This old adage applies 100% to the technology industry, where crashes and outages are far more common than the sales and marketing teams would want us to think. However, DevOps engineers who deal with infrastructure know how hard it is to ensure everything works as intended all of the time — and to configure monitoring that actually keeps track of a...
Embed Your Status Page Everywhere
A well-crafted status page is designed to save you time, energy, and resources when communicating service irregularities. Instead of fielding thousands of support requests when you experience an outage, a status page provides a self-service way for your customers to get up-to-the-minute information about any current downtime. It also allows you to proactively communicate maintenance and other...
Has GitHub Been Down More Since Its Acquisition by Microsoft?
Two years ago, on June 4th of 2018, Microsoft announced its acquisition of GitHub, a unicorn darling of the developer tools startup ecosystem, for $7.5B in stock. The announcement unearthed a wide range of opinions and pontifications, ranging from “GitHub is doomed” to “Microsoft is smart”, with many predictions about GitHub’s future. Some thought Microsoft’s...
Status Page Webhooks: New and Improved!
Since 2015, StatusGator has offered a unique solution for monitoring the status of hundreds of cloud services. By aggregating each service’s status page into a unified API, StatusGator provides the status of all your dependencies in a single place. Our status page webhooks solution was previously quite basic and limited in its capabilities. But we recently launched StatusGator webhooks v2...
Introducing Organization Accounts
Several times throughout the last five years of StatusGator, we have received requests for organizational accounts. As more and larger teams have joined, there’s been a steady increase in requests for multi-user accounts. We are proud to announce that StatusGator Organization accounts are now available on our Start Up plan and above. Our first implementation of this is quite simple:...
Your Status Page Deserves Its Own Domain
Public status pages have risen to become an essential requirement for all publicly-facing web services. A well-constructed status page is a hallmark of a customer-centric organization. Status pages provide transparency and help reduce customer support requests during an inevitable outage. With sufficient component details, they can serve as useful information hubs for customers experiencing...