Changelog

• Now you can display your current status in our new Intercom app ✨

• Embed floating widget that only popups when you have an incident or upcoming maintenance 💥

• Now you can search for your email subscribers 🧐

• Notification settings! We added options to 🤙

  • Get subscribed to my status pages ✨

  • Get notified if my status page is updated by a 3rd party integration 🤖

  • Remind me if I have long-running incidents 🙀

• 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 😎

  • Member: access to everything except:

    • Deleting your page or team

    • Adding or removing teammates

    • Updating subscription

• Introducing maintenance automations! 🤖 Now you can:

  • Remind subscribers before the maintenance starts

  • Start a maintenance automatically

  • And finish it automatically ✅

• We'll remind you when you have a long-running incident. Now you'll never forget to resolve your instatus incident 🙀

• Various small improvements and bug fixes ✨

• Now you can send to your Microsoft Teams channel when you have a status update 📎

• Added MessageBird as an SMS integration 🐤

• Updated all API endpoints to respond with the correct status codes 🤖

• Various bug fixes and improvements 🐞

Introducing full multi-language support! 🌍🌎🌏

You may now communicate everything in the languages of your customers, including:

• Status page details

• Components

• Incidents

• Maintenances

• Templates

• And so on!

Also, we added support for Datadog 🐶 and Checkly 🦉 as a monitoring integrations 🚀

Improvements to Metrics API 📈

Improvements to SMS sending including unsubscribe links 📱

Added Esendex as an SMS integration ☎️

Added ability to auto confirm subscribers if you're on a paid plan 👀

Started the bug bounty program 🐛 🤑

Various improvements and bug fixes 🐞

• Business plan is released 🚀

  • 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

• Sign in by Google 🔥 Also supported in private pages 🙈

• Maintain multiple status pages using one team 🦹

• Allow any email under your domain to get access to your team ✨

• Switch between plans seamlessly 🤑

• Update subscriber names & components 🤗

• Use StatusCake as a monitoring integration 🍰

• Private status pages are released (Pro Private) 🙈

• Read access teammates to access your status page, but not your dashboard 🕵🏻‍♂️

• Quick search and commands 💨

• Various changes to improve performance ✨

• Reorder components & groups with drag and drop 🤏

• Option to send automated notifications to subscribers 🤖

• When you add an incident or maintenance, you'll navigate directly to it ⚡️

• Fix reordering components & groups for grid view ◼️◼️◼️

• Added 🇮🇹 Italian and 🇺🇦 Ukranian languages (thx contributers)

• Ability to skip confirmation emails (pro feature) 🦹

• Dark mode for your status page 🖤

• Ability to add a support URL (or a support email) 💁🏻‍♂️

• Ability to update your maintenance duration ⏰

• Multi-language support (Pro feature) 🌍🌎🌏

• Ability to use your own custom language (Pro feature) 🪐

• Now you can use HetrixTools for monitoring 📊

• Display overall group uptime 💯

• Regenerate your API keys and monitoring keys 🧙‍♂️

• More reliable methods to send webhooks, SMTP emails and Postmark emails 👍

• Bug fixes and performance improvements ✨

• Added forgot password scenario for people who prefer to use passwords 🤔

• Order maintenances by in progress, not started yet, and completed ⬇️

• More reliable way to releasing status pages ✨

• Added 🇵🇱 Polish, 🇨🇳 Chinese Simplified & Traditional

• Bug fixes and performance improvements ⚡️

• Now you can enable/disable all types of subscriptions (including email, sms, webhooks, rss, atom) ⚙️

• Uptime colors now have different shades depending on the severity and duration of incidents 🌈

• You can now add descriptions to components ✍️

• Redesigned *your status pages* screen 🤩

• Added pagination to incidents 🔢

Fixed issues with 🐞

• BetterUptime integration

• Instatus is now officially incorporated in the US using Stripe Atlas 👩‍💼

• Instatus becomes an /open startup 📈

• Launched Instatus Out app – Monitor services you depend on in your menu bar 🚀

• Customizations 💅

  • Ability to add custom html below components

  • Added different SMTP modes to send emails using your custom service

• Fixed bugs 🐞

  • Issues related to ordering components

  • Issues related to sending webhooks

  • Issues related with uppercase and lowercase letters in login

• Added support for dark mode 🖤

• Added a new webhook integration: An easy way to add & resolve incidents 🚀

• Now you can integrate PagerDuty as your monitoring service

• Included more data in your status-page-url/summary.json 🧑‍💻

• Include previous maintenances under your incident history 🚧

• Better month formatting for your incident history 📅

• Bug fixes 🐞

  • 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)

• Now you can use add a status widget to your website 🚀

• Add metrics to your status page 📈

• Use templates to add your incidents and maintenances faster ⚡️

• Now you can automate your status page using PagerDuty and Better Uptime 🤖

• Better Incident / Maintenance / Confirmation emails 💌

• Send emails using your custom address from Postmark or any SMTP server 📭

• Better subscribe pages 💅

• Fix bugs 🐞

  • 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

• New homepage featuring awesome customers like Sketch, freeCodeCamp and Padlet 🚀

• Improved showcase featuring more than 200 status pages 🎨

• Dashboard inputs now feel nicer, and status dropdowns show their associated colors 👌

• Improved main status notice if you're under maintenance ☢️

• Now you can make component groups collapsed by default 🤏

• Added helpful tip to the dashboard for service started on to explain its purpose 💁🏻‍♂️

• Started incorporation process in the US 👩‍💼

• Fixed bugs 🐞

  • Issues related to verifying pages

  • Multiple webhooks used to be sent if an incident affected multiple components

• Add uptime percentage to components 👍

• Better designs for dashboard, onboarding, blog and changelog 💅🏾

• You can customize your dates and times. 7 October 2020 vs 2019-10-7 ⏰

• Private status pages progress 🕵🏻‍♂️ 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

• Ability to send emails from your own brand name and domain 👋

• You now have the option to login with a password. Just go to your user settings → switch the toggle and create a new password 🙈

• Added support for 🇸🇮Slovenian, 🇵🇹 Portuguese & 🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese languages, thanks to contributers!

• Fixed a bug related to re-ordering components 🙃

• Added these endpoints to the API

  • Components

  • Team members

  • Subscribers

• Released the REST API with these endpoints 🚀

  • Incidents

  • Incident updates

  • Maintenances

  • Maintenance updates

• Added 🇷🇸 Serbian language, thanks to contributers!

• Resolved our very first incident 🙀

• Fast entry of teammates, components, etc. When you add one, the form doesn't close and it's ready for the next one! 🚗

• Moved the backend to Typescript to reduce the possibility of shipping new bugs 🐛

• Better looks to current incidents and maintenances 👨‍🎤

• Uptime bars and incident titles in status pages will show different colors depending on severity of the issues 🎨

• 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) 💁🏻‍♂️

• Improved how your subscribers are notified about new maintenances 📲

• Fixed some bugs related to 🐞

  • 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

• Add subscribe by an Atom feed ⚛️

• Add subscribe by RSS (works with Slack too!) 📢

• Add subscribe by Webhook 🔔

• Make get updates menu nicer 👩🏼‍🎨

• Add 🇵🇱 Polish language, thanks to contributers!

• Add Runscope integration 👩‍💻

• Add Freshping integration 👨🏿‍💻

• 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 💌

• Fix bugs related to 🐛

  • 🌎 Timezones

  • 👌Custom 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

  • 🔄 Refreshing dashboard

  • 📊 Google analytics

This month, I added new

• New integrations tab ⚙️

• Add datadog integration 🐶

• Launch Instatus help 💁‍♀️

• Added support for 🇳🇱 Dutch, 🇳🇴 Norwegian and 🇪🇸 Spanish languages, thanks to contributers!

• Better privacy. Irreversibly delete your account and status pages 🗑

• Better handling of automation through emails. Create and resolve incidents automatically instead of just changing the status of affected components ⚙️

• Fix bugs related to 🐞

  • Updating incidents and maintenances 🔥

  • Visit page button when you have a custom domain 👉🏾

  • Confirmation emails when you subscribe to a status page 📪

  • Delete buttons UI 🛑

Today, Instatus launches on Product Hunt 🙀

Vision: Get a beautiful status page in 10 secondsm without paying a 1,000 dollars!

Here is our lauch video 🚀