/changes

We're finally launching Instatus 2.0! 🎉

We're adding these features to our product:

1. Monitoring
2. Incident response

You can use Instatus to monitor your services, fix incidents with your team and share your status with your customers 🚀

If you have any feedback, please let us know at support@instatus.com

• Slack App: Enhanced incident summary, channel management, and lead assignment
• Significant improvements to the web mobile experience
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

• Slack App Enhancement: Improvements to the incident modal interface
• Set custom percentages for partial outages instead of predefined values
• Various bug fixes and improvements

• More user-friendly and performant components page design
• New incident-triggered routing rules for better automation
• Granular control for long-running incident notifications

• Create dedicated incident channels and publish actions directly from Slack
• Various bug fixes and improvements

• New slash command for generating and sharing postmortems directly in Slack
• Connect and monitor your Dynatrace metrics within Instatus

• Enhanced on-call schedules and escalation policies for better incident response
• Improved user experience across all help and documentation pages
• New acknowledge feature for incidents directly from Slack

• Dedicated incident channels - Each incident now gets its own Slack channel for better organization and communication
• Secure webhook reception with secret code verification in request headers
• Various bug fixes and improvements

• Backfill Incidents: Add multiple updates at once for faster incident management
• Ability to unpublish your status page when needed

• Notify specific people on the fly when you're adding new incidents
• Search your Datadog metrics directly within Instatus
• New Relic metrics: Import metrics from New Relic

• Retry monitors directly from Slack notifications for faster response
• Collapse maintenances on status pages with auto-expansion when starting soon
• Smarter language translation - no longer automatically translates to all languages

• New integration with Google Cloud monitoring services
• Full API support for creating and managing monitors programmatically

• Add attachments to incident descriptions and comments for better documentation
• Added Cmd+K search functionality to help pages for faster navigation
• New ability to acknowledge incidents for better workflow management

• Group your monitors for better organization
• Create components directly from your existing monitors
• Duplicate monitors to save setup time
• Metrics display improvements
• Enhanced accessibility features in status pages
• Improved custom domain setup

• 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

• 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 ✨

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

• Outage durations ⏱️

  • 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

• 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

• 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

• Uptime precision control

  Ability to control uptime % precision – Time to flex your 99.99999% 😎

• 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

• 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)

• 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 🧙‍♀️ Now you're able to check how it looks before saving it for everyone to see it 🙈

• 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 🔒

• 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 ✨

• Select all subscribers

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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! 🧙‍♀️ You still have full-control over translated content, but you can do it quicker! 🪄 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

• 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 🚀

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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 (￣︶￣)

• Ability to completely hide your historical notices 🤐

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Introducing time-machine! 🕑 🔙 🕗 Now you can seamlessly go back through time to check your previous uptime and notices ✨

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

• Import pingdom checks as Metrics Select a pingdom check and show it as a metric on your status page 📈

• New history settings! Now you can control ⌛️

  • How many days are visible in your uptime 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩
  • Number of days to show in recent notices ✍️
  • How many months to show going back in time 🧐

• 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! 🌍🌎🌏

  • Status page details
  • Components
  • Incidents
  • Maintenances
  • Templates
  • And so on!

• Added support for Datadog 🐶 and Checkly 🦉 as 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 🤏
• 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 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 💅

• Fixed 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

• 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 🛑

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