OnlineOrNot updates from August 2025
Max Rozen / Published: September 03, 2025
A bit more behind-the-scenes work than usual this month, but I still managed to ship some public-facing features you might be interested in. Logging in, and clicking around the dashboard just got 60% faster, and we're just getting started.
Table of contents
What's new
General features for OnlineOrNot
One-time password login
To login to OnlineOrNot, you used to receive a magic link to let you sign-in on the same device. Various email-scanning providers broke this functionality from time to time, and unfortunately the experience wasn't as smooth as I'd have liked.
As a result, we now use one-time passwords:
The idea remains the same (you'll get an email containing a code, and need it to login), except you can check your email on one device, and login on another, and email-scanning technology won't interfere with your login attempt.
Features for Checks
Historical overview
Up until recently, you couldn't fetch more than 24 hours of uptime data about a check in the OnlineOrNot dashboard.
In August, I took the time to start migrating OnlineOrNot's timeseries data into a Clickhouse instance, and now for the first time, you can query up to 30 days worth of data in a few hundred milliseconds:
(every paginated screen in OnlineOrNot now remembers how many results you wanted to see too)
There's more work to be done to finish the migration (we'll be moving heartbeats over too, and you'll be able to see more detailed logs), but it's looking promising.
Additionally, we're now using OnlineOrNot's own public HTTP API to power this screen, and over time we should have 100% of the functionality provided by the public API.
Features for Status Pages
Links to external status pages
Sometimes your providers have incidents, and you want to give your users more context about the issue. We now link to your external provider's status page when you link a third-party component:
RSS feed
There's now an RSS feed available on each status page:
Letting your users subscribe to your status page's updates without needing to provide their email address.
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, and if you don't enjoy it - let me know where it's falling short of your expectations.