OnlineOrNot updates from April 2025

In April I worked on a behind the scenes refactor, webhooks for status pages, a new endpoint, and more.

Table of contents

• What's new
  • Something entirely new
  • Features for checks
    • PATCH endpoint for Uptime Checks
  • Features for status pages
    • Webhooks for status pages
• Thank you

What's new

Something entirely new

I spent a solid week or so this month rewriting how OnlineOrNot handles what each account can do. Before, OnlineOrNot would only let folks sign-up for a certain plan, and each plan would have predefined values for how many checks, status pages, and users they could use. Now, each account has its own separate limit, independent of the plan they're on.

In short, instead of forcing you to sign-up for a plan that gives you 100 checks when you only need 5, you can now just use 5 checks.

Alternatively, if you need thousands of checks, you can also just sign-up for thousands of checks without needing OnlineOrNot staff to set-up a new plan for you.

Features for checks

PATCH endpoint for Uptime Checks

OnlineOrNot has a new early-release HTTP API PATCH endpoint for updating uptime checks.

As of today, the endpoint only supports updating your uptime check's HTTP request headers, but will be updated to support more features over time.

PS: In case you weren't aware, OnlineOrNot has an API! You create an API token from the OnlineOrNot dashboard, by going to Settings > Developers and selecting Create Token.

Features for status pages

Webhooks for status pages

• OnlineOrNot can now send you webhooks about your status page incidents.

  To start with, the new webhooks system is simple and only supports sending the following events:

  • status_page.incident.started
  • status_page.incident.updated
  • status_page.incident.ended

  

  In the longer term, OnlineOrNot will also automatically migrate existing uptime check webhooks to the new system, so that it's easier to setup webhooks for multiple resources.

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 reply to this email/email me at max@onlineornot.com, if you'd like to chat.