

Changelog
August 2024
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Instatus 2.0 is coming soon! ๐
Send us an email at support@instatus.com to try it out!

July 2024
- Attachments for Notices
- Slack Integration Updates
- New Clear Cache Button
- Bug Fixes & Security improvements

June 2024
- Metrics Display Improvements
- Enhanced accessibility features in status pages
- Improved Custom Domain Setup
- Bug Fixes & Security improvements

May 2024
- Better component selector when you subscribe to a status page
- We'll send you more long-running incident notifications
- Notifications are now tailored for your selected components
- Adjustments to notice emails sent to read-only members

April 2024
- SSO-only option in private pages
We'll take you to your login page directly If you're already logged in on your identity provider, it will just redirect to your page โจ
- Search for Prometheus & New Relic metrics
- Bug fixes and security improvements

February 2024
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Outage durations โฑ๏ธ
- We now record outage durations when your component status changes
- We display these durations on your status page and it affects your uptime %
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Description Editor Improvements
Better editing experience with improved formatting and controls
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Custom Domain Validation
Improved validation checks to prevent false alerts for custom domains

January 2024
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Updown.io Integration
Added support for importing metrics and incidents from Updown.io
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Enhanced Metrics
Improved our metric integrations with better data visualization and reporting
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Slack Workspace Updates
We now send you workspace updates directly to your Slack channels

November 2023
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Secure links
- Enable secure links for your private page
- Use your authenticated link to automatically authenticate clients
- Get the link using the API and use it directly in your dashboard
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Improved team member notifications Better notification controls and settings for your team members

October 2023
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Uptime precision control
Ability to control uptime % precision โ Time to flex your 99.99999% ๐
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Two-factor authentication
Two factor authentication for password accounts
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Slack app improvements
Improvements to our Slack app
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SAML SSO domains
Ability to allow all domains in SAML SSO

September 2023
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Component Selection in Chat Apps
Now you can select components when you subscribe using Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord
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Hungarian Language
Added support for Hungarian language
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Invisible Captcha
Added invisible Captcha to our subscribe pages (powered by privacy-friendly hCaptcha)

August 2023
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Better way to show outages
Duration of outages is represented by lengths instead of colors. We also created settings to go back to using colors (and/or showing bars).
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Custom HTML, CSS & JS ++
With better highlighting, intellisense, auto-complete, line-numbers, etc. We also added a live preview to custom HTML ๐งโโ๏ธ Now you're able to check how it looks before saving it for everyone to see it ๐
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More accurate live previews
We've improved live previews across the board. We use an iframe of your status page for a 100% accurate preview. And we also magically made it work for private pages ๐
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Select affected components, quicker!
Now you can select a whole group and its status, instead of selecting components one by one. We also improved the design while we're at it โจ
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Select all subscribers
Tired of selecting subs 20 by 20. Now you can select all 420 subs you got โจ

July 2023
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API Documentation
We added a new /api page to your status page that shows all the public endpoints available on your status page
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Teams Improvements
Your current team is renamed to "workspace". Inside it, you can group people into different teams. If your workspace is "Nasa", you can group people into teams, like Planet exploration, Life Detection, etc
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Directory Sync
Sync your team to Instatus via SCIM or HRIS
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Social Preview
Better social og:image for your status pages

June 2023
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Customize wording
Customize the wording of your status page from your dashboard! Go from "All systems operational" to "All systems are go!" with a click of a button
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Custom email styling
Customize the emails you send to users. Use your logo, colors, border-radius, and a custom footer
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Monthly uptime history
Show historical monthly uptime on your status page. Get detailed uptime metrics broken down by month in addition to quarterly stats

May 2023
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Multi-level groups
You can put groups inside groups! You can use it now for organization. We'll use it in the future to enable different views. You'll be able to display group items as a list, grid, tabs, etc
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Get updates on Google Chat
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Integrate Prometheus to trigger incidents or create metrics
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Create metrics from New Relic

April 2023
- Accessibility Improvements
- Set the default notification settings for new members in your team
- Auto-redirect visitors from your subdomain to your custom domain

March 2023
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Metrics++
New beautiful, smooth charts that are quick to load. Add more metrics and re-order them in your page
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3rd party components++
We added many services you requested like Pingdom, Postmark, Replit, OpenAI, Amplify, Quickbase, and many more!
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Incident Postmortems
Add incident postmortems, finally! (available in new beta)
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SMS Improvements
Better & shorter SMS messages
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API Pagination
Pagination for our public API endpoints
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Korean Language
Korean language support

February 2023
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Components++
Better designed tooltips. Custom developed to allow you to create 10x more components than before, without affecting page performance.
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Discord Integration Improvements
We made several improvements to our Discord integration.
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Datadog EU Support
Added support for Datadog EU metrics integration.

January 2023
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Integrations++
We improved integrations significantly! Use webhooks and templates to fully customize your incidents. Generate multiple webhooks. Deactivate ones you don't need. Track what's happening.
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Multi-language support++
Add multi-language incidents much quicker! When you're editing content and switch to a new language, we'll translate your text! ๐งโโ๏ธ You still have full-control over translated content, but you can do it quicker! ๐ช We also added multi-language support for:
- API endpoints
- Custom HTML content
- RSS & Atom feeds
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Smart Component Reset
If you delete an active incident, you'll get a popup to quickly revert components back to operational

December 2022
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Select Audience
New page type! Assign teammates to the components they care about Start a 14-day free trial of Instatus SELECT and try it out ๐
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Integrations page
New place to browse our integrations, configure your active ones, and check the activity of every integration you use "What did this to my page" no more!
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Slack app
Now you can create and update incidents and maintenace periods, right from Slack!
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Datadog metrics
Display your metrics directly on your status page
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Widgets for private pages
Use a private page, and still embed widgets! We added unique URLs to our embeds so that you can embed widgets privately, and outsiders won't be able to guess your URL!
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Email customization
If you use our default notification method, we'll send your emails from subdomain@instatus.com instead of hello@instatus.com

November 2022
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3rd party components
We added tens of new services including top requests, like AWS, Google Cloud, Stripe, Auth0, Heroku, Sendbird, Vonage, Freshdesk, Shopify, Salesforce and Google Workspace!
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Improvements to main status
We now use more meaningful titles like: Website Experiencing Partial Outage
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SSO improvements
You can now use multiple SAML connections for your team
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Component start dates
Add a service start date to each of your components
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New API endpoints
Added API endpoints for templates

October 2022
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Team Activity
Check who did what in your team. Including humans, bots and aliens
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Single password login
Create a single password to get access to your private page. Share it with your team and you're done!
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Improvements to templates
Including labels, search, imports & exports
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API support for multiple languages

September 2022
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Switch from Statuspage
Migrating from Statuspage had never been easier! Now you can import your incidents, maintenances, templates, subscribers, logo, and everything from your Statuspage!
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Affiliates
Share a product you love! Earn a recurring 20%. Forever and ever! As a user, you're already an affiliate. Just head to dashboard.instatus.com/affiliates to use your affiliate link!
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Password protected private pages
Now you can protect your private page using a single password. Share a password with your team, and you're done!
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Template-based automation
Completely control how your status page reacts to monitoring integration. Create a template with the title, description, and affected components. A unique link is generated for you. Use that link with your preferred monitoring integration.
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Subscribe to a single incident / maintenance
Now your customers can subscribe to an active incident that they care about.

August 2022
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Search, multi-select & delete Now you can search for incidents, maintenances, subscribers and more You can also multi-select and perform bulk deletes!
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Support for AWS SES & SNS Now you can use SES & SNS for sending emails and SMS messages
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Import your subscribers using CSV (PRO)
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Ability to hide your page from search engines
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Support for Japanese language (๏ฟฃ๏ธถ๏ฟฃ)
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Ability to completely hide your historical notices ๐ค

July 2022
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Archive components
- Now you can archive components so that they can still be affected by incidents
- They'll only show up if there's an active notice about them
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Better custom domains
- Now you can check if your custom domain configuration is valid, and we'll send you an alert if it's not!
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Export your subscribers as CSV

June 2022
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New integration with Grafana
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Fixes & improvements to our floating widget
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Fixed sending multiple automated maintenance updates instead of one
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Improvements to our timezone handling when sending maintenance updates

May 2022
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Introducing 3rd party components Now you can add components of 3rd party services you depend on, and display it as part of your status page Whether you use Vercel, Mailgun, Twilio, Railway, Render, Intercom, Adalo, Fastly, Cloudflare or DigitalOcean or... We now support 170+ services and counting!
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New & improved private pages Private page customers can now experience our new status page design & experience, with better performance, and our time-machine!
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Create your own custom widget We created a step-by-step guide on how to create your own custom widget using your public status page data

April 2022
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Introducing time-machine! ๐ ๐ ๐ Now you can seamlessly go back through time to check your previous uptime and notices โจ
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Stormtrooper is now available for everyone You can choose between 3 themes: Simple, Panda and Stormtrooper ๐ค
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Import pingdom checks as Metrics Select a pingdom check and show it as a metric on your status page ๐
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New history settings! Now you can control โ๏ธ
- How many days are visible in your uptime ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ ๐ฉ
- Number of days to show in recent notices โ๏ธ
- How many months to show going back in time ๐ง

March 2022
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Now you can display your current status in our new Intercom app โจ
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Embed floating widget that only popups when you have an incident or upcoming maintenance ๐ฅ
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Now you can search for your email subscribers ๐ง
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Notification settings! We added options to ๐ค Get subscribed to my status pages โจ
- Get notified if my status page is updated by a 3rd party integration ๐ค
- Remind me if I have long-running incidents ๐
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Refined teammate roles & permissions
- Read-only: can view your private status page
- Editor: can update your status page.
Gets access to update incidents, maintenances, templates and components. - Owner: gets access to everything ๐
- Member: access to everything except:
- Deleting your page or team
- Adding or removing teammates
- Updating subscription

February 2022
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Introducing maintenance automations! ๐ค Now you can:
- Remind subscribers before the maintenance starts
- Start a maintenance automatically
- And finish it automatically โ
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We'll remind you when you have a long-running incident. Now you'll never forget to resolve your Instatus incident ๐
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Various small improvements and bug fixes โจ

January 2022
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Now you can send to your Microsoft Teams channel when you have a status update ๐
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Added MessageBird as an SMS integration ๐ค
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Updated all API endpoints to respond with the correct status codes ๐ค
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Various bug fixes and improvements ๐

December 2021
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Introducing full multi-language support! ๐๐๐
- Status page details
- Components
- Incidents
- Maintenances
- Templates
- And so on!
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Added support for Datadog ๐ถ and Checkly ๐ฆ as monitoring integrations ๐

November 2021
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Improvements to Metrics API ๐
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Improvements to SMS sending including unsubscribe links ๐ฑ
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Added Esendex as an SMS integration โ๏ธ
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Added ability to auto confirm subscribers if you're on a paid plan ๐
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Started the bug bounty program ๐ ๐ค
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Various improvements and bug fixes ๐

September 2021
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Business plan is released ๐
- Supports teammate SAML / SSO
- Includes 3 private or public status pages
- All IdPs are supported + easy to use IT admin portal
- Yearly PO & Invoicing available
- 30 day free trial, then $300/mo or $2700/year
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Sign in by Google ๐ฅ Also supported in private pages ๐
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Maintain multiple status pages using one team ๐ฆน
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Allow any email under your domain to get access to your team โจ
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Switch between plans seamlessly ๐ค
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Update subscriber names & components ๐ค
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Use StatusCake as a monitoring integration ๐ฐ

August 2021
- Private status pages are released (Pro Private) ๐
- Read access teammates to access your status page, but not your dashboard ๐ต๐ปโโ๏ธ
- Quick search and commands ๐จ
- Various changes to improve performance โจ

July 2021
- Reorder components & groups with drag and drop ๐ค
- Reorder components & groups with drag and drop ๐ค
- Option to send automated notifications to subscribers ๐ค
- When you add an incident or maintenance, you'll navigate directly to it โก๏ธ
- Fix reordering components & groups for grid view โผ๏ธโผ๏ธโผ๏ธ
- Added ๐ฎ๐น Italian and ๐บ๐ฆ Ukranian languages (thx contributers)
- Ability to skip confirmation emails (pro feature) ๐ฆน

June 2021
- Dark mode for your status page ๐ค
- Ability to add a support URL (or a support email) ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
- Ability to update your maintenance duration โฐ
- Multi-language support (Pro feature) ๐๐๐
- Ability to use your own custom language (Pro feature) ๐ช

May 2021
- Now you can use HetrixTools for monitoring ๐
- Display overall group uptime ๐ฏ
- Regenerate your API keys and monitoring keys ๐งโโ๏ธ
- More reliable methods to send webhooks, SMTP emails and Postmark emails ๐
- Bug fixes and performance improvements โจ

April 2021
- Added forgot password scenario for people who prefer to use passwords ๐ค
- Order maintenances by in progress, not started yet, and completed โฌ๏ธ
- More reliable way to releasing status pages โจ
- Added ๐ต๐ฑ Polish, ๐จ๐ณ Chinese Simplified & Traditional
- Bug fixes and performance improvements โก๏ธ

March 2021
- Now you can enable/disable all types of subscriptions (including email, sms, webhooks, rss, atom) โ๏ธ
- Uptime colors now have different shades depending on the severity and duration of incidents ๐
- You can now add descriptions to components โ๏ธ
- Redesigned your status pages screen ๐คฉ
- Added pagination to incidents ๐ข
- Fixed issues with ๐
- BetterUptime integration

February 2021
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Instatus is now officially incorporated in the US using Stripe Atlas ๐ฉโ๐ผ
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Instatus becomes an /open startup ๐
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Launched Instatus Out app โ Monitor services you depend on in your menu bar ๐
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Customizations ๐
- Ability to add custom html below components
- Added different SMTP modes to send emails using your custom service
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Fixed bugs ๐
- Issues related to ordering components
- Issues related to sending webhooks
- Issues related with uppercase and lowercase letters in login

January 2021
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Added support for dark mode ๐ค
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Added a new webhook integration: An easy way to add & resolve incidents ๐
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Now you can integrate PagerDuty as your monitoring service
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Included more data in your status-page-url/summary.json ๐งโ๐ป
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Include previous maintenances under your incident history ๐ง
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Better month formatting for your incident history ๐
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Bug fixes ๐
- Removed requirement of selecting at least one component to add a template
- Fixed an issue with messages not showing correctly in emails
- Add your webhook subscribers to your dashboard
- Fix an issue related to metric suffix
- Fixed an issue related to uptime percentage for services that started recently (less than 90 days old)

December 2020
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Now you can add a status widget to your website ๐
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Add metrics to your status page ๐
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Use templates to add your incidents and maintenances faster โก๏ธ
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Now you can automate your status page using PagerDuty and Better Uptime ๐ค
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Better Incident / Maintenance / Confirmation emails ๐
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Send emails using your custom address from Postmark or any SMTP server ๐ญ
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Better subscribe pages ๐
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Fixed bugs ๐
- Multiple webhooks sent for multiple affected components
- Customers now can't accidentally remove themselves if they're the only team member
- Fixed some performance issues by adding a cache layer

November 2020
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New homepage featuring awesome customers like Sketch, freeCodeCamp and Padlet ๐
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Improved showcase featuring more than 200 status pages ๐จ
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Dashboard inputs now feel nicer, and status dropdowns show their associated colors ๐
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Improved main status notice if you're under maintenance โข๏ธ
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Now you can make component groups collapsed by default ๐ค
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Added helpful tip to the dashboard for service started on to explain its purpose ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Started incorporation process in the US ๐ฉโ๐ผ
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Fixed bugs ๐
- Issues related to verifying pages
- Multiple webhooks used to be sent if an incident affected multiple components

October 2020
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Add uptime percentage to components ๐
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Better designs for dashboard, onboarding, blog and changelog ๐ ๐พ
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You can customize your dates and times. 7 October 2020 vs 2019-10-7 โฐ
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Private status pages progress ๐ต๐ปโโ๏ธ Try for free now. Will be paid when it's gets full featured
- Support custom domains
- Added team roles to prepare for READ access to private pages
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Ability to send emails from your own brand name and domain ๐
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You now have the option to login with a password. Just go to your user settings โ switch the toggle and create a new password ๐
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Added support for ๐ธ๐ฎSlovenian, ๐ต๐น Portuguese & ๐ง๐ท Brazilian Portuguese languages, thanks to contributers!
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Fixed a bug related to re-ordering components ๐
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Added these endpoints to the API
- Components
- Team members
- Subscribers

September 2020
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Released the REST API with these endpoints ๐
- Incidents
- Incident updates
- Maintenances
- Maintenance updates
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Added ๐ท๐ธ Serbian language, thanks to contributers!
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Resolved our very first incident ๐
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Fast entry of teammates, components, etc. When you add one, the form doesn't close and it's ready for the next one! ๐
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Moved the backend to Typescript to reduce the possibility of shipping new bugs ๐
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Better looks to current incidents and maintenances ๐จโ๐ค
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Uptime bars and incident titles in status pages will show different colors depending on severity of the issues ๐จ
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Fallback (dynamic) status page, so when you create a new status page, you can check it immediately (no need to wait for the first static build) ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Improved how your subscribers are notified about new maintenances ๐ฒ
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Fixed some bugs related to ๐
- Adding spaces to your subdomain in onboarding
- Issue with landing page video play & pause
- Fix issue when incident resolved date is before when it started

August 2020
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Add subscribe by an Atom feed โ๏ธ
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Add subscribe by RSS (works with Slack too!) ๐ข
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Add subscribe by Webhook ๐
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Make get updates menu nicer ๐ฉ๐ผโ๐จ
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Add ๐ต๐ฑ Polish language, thanks to contributers!
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Add Runscope integration ๐ฉโ๐ป
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Add Freshping integration ๐จ๐ฟโ๐ป
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Improve emails sent by Instatus. Show a default images for status pages that has no logo yet. Use less branded colors so that it fits all customers ๐
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Fix bugs related to ๐
- ๐ Timezones
- ๐Custom HTML & CSS is not statically added to your page (not injected using javascript). You won't get a Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) when you load your status page
- ๐ Refreshing dashboard
- ๐ Google analytics

July 2020
Today, Instatus launches on Product Hunt ๐
Vision: Get a beautiful status page in 10 secondsm without paying a 1,000 dollars!
Here is our lauch video ๐

July 2020
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New integrations tab โ๏ธ
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Add datadog integration ๐ถ
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Launch Instatus help ๐โโ๏ธ
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Added support for ๐ณ๐ฑ Dutch, ๐ณ๐ด Norwegian and ๐ช๐ธ Spanish languages, thanks to contributers!
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Better privacy. Irreversibly delete your account and status pages ๐
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Better handling of automation through emails. Create and resolve incidents automatically instead of just changing the status of affected components โ๏ธ
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Fix bugs related to ๐
- Updating incidents and maintenances ๐ฅ
- Visit page button when you have a custom domain ๐๐พ
- Confirmation emails when you subscribe to a status page ๐ช
- Delete buttons UI ๐
