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Changelog

August 2024

Instatus 2.0

July 2024

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

June 2024

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

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
May 2024

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 โœจ

  • Search for Prometheus & New Relic metrics
  • Bug fixes and security improvements
April 2024

February 2024

  • Outage durations โฑ๏ธ

    • We now record outage durations when your component status changes
    • We display these durations on your status page and it affects your uptime %
  • Description Editor Improvements

    Better editing experience with improved formatting and controls

  • Custom Domain Validation

    Improved validation checks to prevent false alerts for custom domains

February 2024

January 2024

  • Updown.io Integration

    Added support for importing metrics and incidents from Updown.io

  • Enhanced Metrics

    Improved our metric integrations with better data visualization and reporting

  • Slack Workspace Updates

    We now send you workspace updates directly to your Slack channels

January 2024

November 2023

  • Secure links

    1. Enable secure links for your private page
    2. Use your authenticated link to automatically authenticate clients
    3. Get the link using the API and use it directly in your dashboard
  • Improved team member notifications Better notification controls and settings for your team members

December 2023

October 2023

  • Uptime precision control

    Ability to control uptime % precision โ€“ Time to flex your 99.99999% ๐Ÿ˜Ž

  • Two-factor authentication

    Two factor authentication for password accounts

  • Slack app improvements

    Improvements to our Slack app

  • SAML SSO domains

    Ability to allow all domains in SAML SSO

October 2023

September 2023

  • Component Selection in Chat Apps

    Now you can select components when you subscribe using Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord

  • Hungarian Language

    Added support for Hungarian language

  • Invisible Captcha

    Added invisible Captcha to our subscribe pages (powered by privacy-friendly hCaptcha)

September 2023

August 2023

  • 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).

  • Custom HTML, CSS & JS ++

    With better highlighting, intellisense, auto-complete, line-numbers, etc. We also added a live preview to custom HTML ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ Now you're able to check how it looks before saving it for everyone to see it ๐Ÿ™ˆ

  • 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 ๐Ÿ”’

  • 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 โœจ

  • Select all subscribers

    Tired of selecting subs 20 by 20. Now you can select all 420 subs you got โœจ

August 2023

July 2023

  • API Documentation

    We added a new /api page to your status page that shows all the public endpoints available on your status page

  • 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

  • Directory Sync

    Sync your team to Instatus via SCIM or HRIS

  • Social Preview

    Better social og:image for your status pages

July 2023

June 2023

  • 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

  • Custom email styling

    Customize the emails you send to users. Use your logo, colors, border-radius, and a custom footer

  • Monthly uptime history

    Show historical monthly uptime on your status page. Get detailed uptime metrics broken down by month in addition to quarterly stats

June 2023

May 2023

  • 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

  • Get updates on Google Chat

  • Integrate Prometheus to trigger incidents or create metrics

  • Create metrics from New Relic

May 2023

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
April 2023

March 2023

  • Metrics++

    New beautiful, smooth charts that are quick to load. Add more metrics and re-order them in your page

  • 3rd party components++

    We added many services you requested like Pingdom, Postmark, Replit, OpenAI, Amplify, Quickbase, and many more!

  • Incident Postmortems

    Add incident postmortems, finally! (available in new beta)

  • SMS Improvements

    Better & shorter SMS messages

  • API Pagination

    Pagination for our public API endpoints

  • Korean Language

    Korean language support

March 2023

February 2023

  • Components++

    Better designed tooltips. Custom developed to allow you to create 10x more components than before, without affecting page performance.

  • Discord Integration Improvements

    We made several improvements to our Discord integration.

  • Datadog EU Support

    Added support for Datadog EU metrics integration.

February 2023

January 2023

  • 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.

  • 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! ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ You still have full-control over translated content, but you can do it quicker! ๐Ÿช„ We also added multi-language support for:

    • API endpoints
    • Custom HTML content
    • RSS & Atom feeds
  • Smart Component Reset

    If you delete an active incident, you'll get a popup to quickly revert components back to operational

January 2023

December 2022

  • 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 ๐Ÿš€

  • 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!

  • Slack app

    Now you can create and update incidents and maintenace periods, right from Slack!

  • Datadog metrics

    Display your metrics directly on your status page

  • 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!

  • Email customization

    If you use our default notification method, we'll send your emails from subdomain@instatus.com instead of hello@instatus.com

December 2022

November 2022

  • 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!

  • Improvements to main status

    We now use more meaningful titles like: Website Experiencing Partial Outage

  • SSO improvements

    You can now use multiple SAML connections for your team

  • Component start dates

    Add a service start date to each of your components

  • New API endpoints

    Added API endpoints for templates

November 2022

October 2022

  • Team Activity

    Check who did what in your team. Including humans, bots and aliens

  • Single password login

    Create a single password to get access to your private page. Share it with your team and you're done!

  • Improvements to templates

    Including labels, search, imports & exports

  • API support for multiple languages

October 2022

September 2022

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Subscribe to a single incident / maintenance

    Now your customers can subscribe to an active incident that they care about.

September 2022

August 2022

  • Search, multi-select & delete Now you can search for incidents, maintenances, subscribers and more You can also multi-select and perform bulk deletes!

  • Support for AWS SES & SNS Now you can use SES & SNS for sending emails and SMS messages

  • Import your subscribers using CSV (PRO)

  • Ability to hide your page from search engines

  • Support for Japanese language (๏ฟฃ๏ธถ๏ฟฃ)

  • Ability to completely hide your historical notices ๐Ÿค

August 2022

July 2022

  • 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
  • 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!
  • Export your subscribers as CSV

July 2022

June 2022

  • New integration with Grafana

  • Fixes & improvements to our floating widget

  • Fixed sending multiple automated maintenance updates instead of one

  • Improvements to our timezone handling when sending maintenance updates

June 2022

May 2022

  • 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!

  • New & improved private pages Private page customers can now experience our new status page design & experience, with better performance, and our time-machine!

  • 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

May 2022

April 2022

  • Introducing time-machine! ๐Ÿ•‘ ๐Ÿ”™ ๐Ÿ•— Now you can seamlessly go back through time to check your previous uptime and notices โœจ

  • Stormtrooper is now available for everyone You can choose between 3 themes: Simple, Panda and Stormtrooper ๐Ÿค–

  • Import pingdom checks as Metrics Select a pingdom check and show it as a metric on your status page ๐Ÿ“ˆ

  • New history settings! Now you can control โŒ›๏ธ

    • How many days are visible in your uptime ๐ŸŸฉ ๐ŸŸฉ ๐ŸŸฉ ๐ŸŸฉ ๐ŸŸฉ
    • Number of days to show in recent notices โœ๏ธ
    • How many months to show going back in time ๐Ÿง
April 2022

March 2022

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

  • Embed floating widget that only popups when you have an incident or upcoming maintenance ๐Ÿ’ฅ

  • Now you can search for your email subscribers ๐Ÿง

  • Notification settings! We added options to ๐Ÿค™ Get subscribed to my status pages โœจ

    • Get notified if my status page is updated by a 3rd party integration ๐Ÿค–
    • Remind me if I have long-running incidents ๐Ÿ™€
  • 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 ๐Ÿ˜Ž
    • Member: access to everything except:
      • Deleting your page or team
      • Adding or removing teammates
      • Updating subscription
March 2022

February 2022

  • Introducing maintenance automations! ๐Ÿค– Now you can:

    • Remind subscribers before the maintenance starts
    • Start a maintenance automatically
    • And finish it automatically โœ…
  • We'll remind you when you have a long-running incident. Now you'll never forget to resolve your Instatus incident ๐Ÿ™€

  • Various small improvements and bug fixes โœจ

Feb 2022

January 2022

  • Now you can send to your Microsoft Teams channel when you have a status update ๐Ÿ“Ž

  • Added MessageBird as an SMS integration ๐Ÿค

  • Updated all API endpoints to respond with the correct status codes ๐Ÿค–

  • Various bug fixes and improvements ๐Ÿž

January 2022

December 2021

  • Introducing full multi-language support! ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ

    • Status page details
    • Components
    • Incidents
    • Maintenances
    • Templates
    • And so on!
  • Added support for Datadog ๐Ÿถ and Checkly ๐Ÿฆ‰ as monitoring integrations ๐Ÿš€

December 2021

November 2021

  • Improvements to Metrics API ๐Ÿ“ˆ

  • Improvements to SMS sending including unsubscribe links ๐Ÿ“ฑ

  • Added Esendex as an SMS integration โ˜Ž๏ธ

  • Added ability to auto confirm subscribers if you're on a paid plan ๐Ÿ‘€

  • Started the bug bounty program ๐Ÿ› ๐Ÿค‘

  • Various improvements and bug fixes ๐Ÿž

November 2021

September 2021

  • Business plan is released ๐Ÿš€

    • 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 ๐Ÿ”ฅ Also supported in private pages ๐Ÿ™ˆ

  • Maintain multiple status pages using one team ๐Ÿฆน

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

  • Switch between plans seamlessly ๐Ÿค‘

  • Update subscriber names & components ๐Ÿค—

  • Use StatusCake as a monitoring integration ๐Ÿฐ

September 21

August 2021

  • Private status pages are released (Pro Private) ๐Ÿ™ˆ
  • Read access teammates to access your status page, but not your dashboard ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
  • Quick search and commands ๐Ÿ’จ
  • Various changes to improve performance โœจ
August 2021

July 2021

  • Reorder components & groups with drag and drop ๐Ÿค
  • Reorder components & groups with drag and drop ๐Ÿค
  • Option to send automated notifications to subscribers ๐Ÿค–
  • When you add an incident or maintenance, you'll navigate directly to it โšก๏ธ
  • Fix reordering components & groups for grid view โ—ผ๏ธโ—ผ๏ธโ—ผ๏ธ
  • Added ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italian and ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukranian languages (thx contributers)
  • Ability to skip confirmation emails (pro feature) ๐Ÿฆน
July 2021

June 2021

  • Dark mode for your status page ๐Ÿ–ค
  • Ability to add a support URL (or a support email) ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
  • Ability to update your maintenance duration โฐ
  • Multi-language support (Pro feature) ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ
  • Ability to use your own custom language (Pro feature) ๐Ÿช
June 2021

May 2021

  • Now you can use HetrixTools for monitoring ๐Ÿ“Š
  • Display overall group uptime ๐Ÿ’ฏ
  • Regenerate your API keys and monitoring keys ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ
  • More reliable methods to send webhooks, SMTP emails and Postmark emails ๐Ÿ‘
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements โœจ
May 2021

April 2021

  • Added forgot password scenario for people who prefer to use passwords ๐Ÿค”
  • Order maintenances by in progress, not started yet, and completed โฌ‡๏ธ
  • More reliable way to releasing status pages โœจ
  • Added ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Polish, ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Chinese Simplified & Traditional
  • Bug fixes and performance improvements โšก๏ธ
April 2021

March 2021

  • Now you can enable/disable all types of subscriptions (including email, sms, webhooks, rss, atom) โš™๏ธ
  • Uptime colors now have different shades depending on the severity and duration of incidents ๐ŸŒˆ
  • You can now add descriptions to components โœ๏ธ
  • Redesigned your status pages screen ๐Ÿคฉ
  • Added pagination to incidents ๐Ÿ”ข
  • Fixed issues with ๐Ÿž
    • BetterUptime integration
March 2021

February 2021

  • Instatus is now officially incorporated in the US using Stripe Atlas ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ผ

  • Instatus becomes an /open startup ๐Ÿ“ˆ

  • Launched Instatus Out app โ€“ Monitor services you depend on in your menu bar ๐Ÿš€

  • Customizations ๐Ÿ’…

    • Ability to add custom html below components
    • Added different SMTP modes to send emails using your custom service
  • Fixed bugs ๐Ÿž

    • Issues related to ordering components
    • Issues related to sending webhooks
    • Issues related with uppercase and lowercase letters in login
February 2021

January 2021

  • Added support for dark mode ๐Ÿ–ค

  • Added a new webhook integration: An easy way to add & resolve incidents ๐Ÿš€

  • Now you can integrate PagerDuty as your monitoring service

  • Included more data in your status-page-url/summary.json ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป

  • Include previous maintenances under your incident history ๐Ÿšง

  • Better month formatting for your incident history ๐Ÿ“…

  • Bug fixes ๐Ÿž

    • 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)
January's changelog

December 2020

  • Now you can add a status widget to your website ๐Ÿš€

  • Add metrics to your status page ๐Ÿ“ˆ

  • Use templates to add your incidents and maintenances faster โšก๏ธ

  • Now you can automate your status page using PagerDuty and Better Uptime ๐Ÿค–

  • Better Incident / Maintenance / Confirmation emails ๐Ÿ’Œ

  • Send emails using your custom address from Postmark or any SMTP server ๐Ÿ“ญ

  • Better subscribe pages ๐Ÿ’…

  • Fixed bugs ๐Ÿž

    • 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
December's Changelog

November 2020

  • New homepage featuring awesome customers like Sketch, freeCodeCamp and Padlet ๐Ÿš€

  • Improved showcase featuring more than 200 status pages ๐ŸŽจ

  • Dashboard inputs now feel nicer, and status dropdowns show their associated colors ๐Ÿ‘Œ

  • Improved main status notice if you're under maintenance โ˜ข๏ธ

  • Now you can make component groups collapsed by default ๐Ÿค

  • Added helpful tip to the dashboard for service started on to explain its purpose ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

  • Started incorporation process in the US ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ผ

  • Fixed bugs ๐Ÿž

    • Issues related to verifying pages
    • Multiple webhooks used to be sent if an incident affected multiple components
November's Changelog

October 2020

  • Add uptime percentage to components ๐Ÿ‘

  • Better designs for dashboard, onboarding, blog and changelog ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿพ

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

  • Private status pages progress ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏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
  • Ability to send emails from your own brand name and domain ๐Ÿ‘‹

  • 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 ๐Ÿ™ˆ

  • Added support for ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎSlovenian, ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Portuguese & ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท Brazilian Portuguese languages, thanks to contributers!

  • Fixed a bug related to re-ordering components ๐Ÿ™ƒ

  • Added these endpoints to the API

    • Components
    • Team members
    • Subscribers
October's changelog

September 2020

  • Released the REST API with these endpoints ๐Ÿš€

    • Incidents
    • Incident updates
    • Maintenances
    • Maintenance updates
  • Added ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbian language, thanks to contributers!

  • Resolved our very first incident ๐Ÿ™€

  • Fast entry of teammates, components, etc. When you add one, the form doesn't close and it's ready for the next one! ๐Ÿš—

  • Moved the backend to Typescript to reduce the possibility of shipping new bugs ๐Ÿ›

  • Better looks to current incidents and maintenances ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽค

  • Uptime bars and incident titles in status pages will show different colors depending on severity of the issues ๐ŸŽจ

  • 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) ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

  • Improved how your subscribers are notified about new maintenances ๐Ÿ“ฒ

  • Fixed some bugs related to ๐Ÿž

    • 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
September's changelog

August 2020

  • Add subscribe by an Atom feed โš›๏ธ

  • Add subscribe by RSS (works with Slack too!) ๐Ÿ“ข

  • Add subscribe by Webhook ๐Ÿ””

  • Make get updates menu nicer ๐Ÿ‘ฉ๐Ÿผโ€๐ŸŽจ

  • Add ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Polish language, thanks to contributers!

  • Add Runscope integration ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

  • Add Freshping integration ๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿฟโ€๐Ÿ’ป

  • 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 ๐Ÿ’Œ

  • Fix bugs related to ๐Ÿ›

    • ๐ŸŒŽ Timezones
    • ๐Ÿ‘ŒCustom 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
    • ๐Ÿ”„ Refreshing dashboard
    • ๐Ÿ“Š Google analytics
August's changelogs

July 2020

Today, Instatus launches on Product Hunt ๐Ÿ™€

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

Here is our lauch video ๐Ÿš€

Instatus Launches on Product Hunt

July 2020

  • New integrations tab โš™๏ธ

  • Add datadog integration ๐Ÿถ

  • Launch Instatus help ๐Ÿ’โ€โ™€๏ธ

  • Added support for ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Dutch, ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norwegian and ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish languages, thanks to contributers!

  • Better privacy. Irreversibly delete your account and status pages ๐Ÿ—‘

  • Better handling of automation through emails. Create and resolve incidents automatically instead of just changing the status of affected components โš™๏ธ

  • Fix bugs related to ๐Ÿž

    • Updating incidents and maintenances ๐Ÿ”ฅ
    • Visit page button when you have a custom domain ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿพ
    • Confirmation emails when you subscribe to a status page ๐Ÿ“ช
    • Delete buttons UI ๐Ÿ›‘
July's changelog