OnlineOrNot updates from June/July 2024

If you remember the last update, I originally planned to ship quite a few features in June. Life and family had to take priority for me, so they didn't get done.

Thankfully, I'm building OnlineOrNot for the extremely long term, so there's no rush to ship as fast as possible.

A fair few things did get shipped though.

Table of contents

• What's new
  • Features for status pages
    • Retrospective incidents
    • Descriptions and hiding from search engines
    • Incident history
    • IP allowlisting
    • Additional external status pages
• What's next
• Thank you

What's new

Features for status pages

Retrospective incidents

Ever internally declare an incident, have your team fix the issue, and in the heat of the moment completely forget to update your status page?

It happens more often than you'd think, which is why OnlineOrNot now supports adding incidents that happened in the past:

Descriptions and hiding from search engines

You can now add descriptions (in markdown) to status pages, and hide them from being indexed by search engines.

To update your status page's settings, click into your status page's dashboard and visit the "Settings" tab.

In the "Settings" tab, you'll find a new Description field, and a checkbox for disabling search engines from indexing your status page:

Incident history

Each status page now displays more than just the last fourteen days of incidents: you can now access your status page's entire incident history.

To access a status page's incident history, scroll down to "Recent Incidents" and click the "view incident history" link to the right.

IP allowlisting

You might want to restrict access to your status page, but not want to share a password around with your team.

For these cases, OnlineOrNot now supports IP allowlisting:

Additional external status pages

OnlineOrNot can now display the uptime status of the following providers on your status page:

• Ably
• Radar

Bringing it to a total of thirty-two external services supported, with more to come!

What's next

Here's what I have planned for this coming month:

• Ability to subscribe to status pages via webhook
• Ability to create or update incident updates through APIs
• Ability to push metrics and plot graphs to showcase for customers
• Display historical uptime stats for the past year in a calendar

Thank you

OnlineOrNot only exists because of folks like you. I don't have a massive marketing budget, OnlineOrNot gets its users from folks like you enjoying it enough to tell your friends and colleagues about it.

So here's an ask:

I work on the 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.