OnlineOrNot updates from August 2024
Max Rozen / September 04, 2024
This month I continued adding features to OnlineOrNot's status page functionality, while also taking the time to fix bugs, and add an integration for Pingdom.
Table of contents
What's new
Features for status pages
Scheduled Maintenance
Sometimes you realise ahead of time that you need to take your service offline for a bit while you run updates. You already have enough on your plate, why worry about keeping the status page manually updated too?
You can now keep your customers updated on how your scheduled maintenance is progressing, and when they can use your service again, automatically:
Custom favicon and logo
We now support custom favicons and logos in status pages:
The process requires emailing OnlineOrNot's support, but I figured getting the feature into people's hands was more important than making it fully self-serve.
You can read more about it in the documentation.
Pingdom integration
You might already have uptime checks that you've been running for years in Pingdom. It does everything you need, and it's a total pain to move uptime monitoring when you've had it running for years, I get it.
What if you still wanted an OnlineOrNot status page for your Pingdom uptime checks?
You're in luck, because OnlineOrNot now integrates with Pingdom to update your status page:
Bug fixes and improvements
- External status page integrations now update every minute
- Fixed bugs in the GitLab and Paddle external status page integration
- Fixed a bug that impacted email deliverability when subscribing to a status page
What's next
Here's what I have planned for these coming months:
- Upload your own favicon and logo to status pages at any time
- Ability to push third-party metrics and plot graphs to showcase for customers
- Display historical uptime stats for the past year in a calendar
- Ability to subscribe to status pages via webhook
- Ability to create or update incident updates through APIs
Thank you
OnlineOrNot only exists because of folks like you. I don't have a massive marketing budget, or time to do it all myself.
OnlineOrNot sustains itself from folks like you enjoying it enough to tell your friends and colleagues about it.
As always: here's an ask:
I work on things that people care enough about to tell me about them. If you think there's something missing, or something that needs improving, I'd like to know more!
You can either reply to this email/email me at max@onlineornot.com, or book time in my calendar if you'd like to chat face-to-face.