OnlineOrNot updates from 2025 Q1

I can't believe it's April already. OnlineOrNot now lets you automatically pause checks on a recurring basis with maintenance windows, there's better support for timezones, loading a lot of data got faster, and more.

Table of contents

• What's new
  • Features for checks
    • Maintenance windows
    • Alerts in your timezone
  • Features for status pages
    • Better timezone display
    • External status pages
  • Bug fixes and improvements
• Thank you

What's new

Features for checks

Maintenance windows

• OnlineOrNot defaults to checking your URLs and waiting for your cron jobs twenty-four hours a day, without a break. But what if every weeknight, you had a 30 minute window where you knew your service might go down?

  OnlineOrNot now lets you pause your uptime checks and heartbeats for a given period of time, on a recurring basis:

  

  Once you've set a recurring maintenance window, OnlineOrNot will update your checks and heartbeats to be in "maintenance" mode for the duration of the maintenance period.

Alerts in your timezone

• OnlineOrNot now lets you select a timezone preference for the email alerts you receive.

  This is particularly useful if you have team members in different timezones, and you want to make sure they receive alerts that are easy to understand without having to convert the timezone.

  To update your timezone preference, click into your account settings and select your timezone from the dropdown:

  

Features for status pages

Better timezone display

• Status pages used to default to UTC time for all updates. That's probably fine when you're in Europe, but your users could be from anywhere. Every time now displays:

  • How long ago something happened (relative time)
  • When something happened in UTC
  • When something happened in their local timezone

  

External status pages

• OnlineOrNot now supports monitoring over a hundred external status pages on your own status page

Bug fixes and improvements

• Fixed a bug to ensure OnlineOrNot can keep checking even during an incident with our main service provider
• Rewrote how OnlineOrNot shows multiple pages of data for checks, heartbeats, and status pages. It's now a lot faster to load a lot of data.
• To help folks monitoring their cron jobs, I built a cron command generator

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.