ChangelogAugust 2024
Instatus 2.0 is coming soon ๐
Send us an email at support@instatus.com to try it out!
ChangelogFebruary 2024
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 %
Improved our description editor
Improved our custom domains validation checks to ensure we don't send false alerts
ChangelogJanuary 2024
Added support for Updown.io
Improved our metric integrations
We now send you workspace updates to Slack
ChangelogNovember 2023
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
Improved team member notifications
ChangelogOctober 2023
Ability to control uptime % precision โย Time to flex your 99.99999% ๐
Two factor authentication for password accounts.
Improvements to our Slack app
Ability to allow all domains in SAML SSO
ChangelogSeptember 2023
Now you can select components when your subscribe using Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and Discord
Added support for Hungarian language ๐ญ๐บ
Added invisible Captcha to our subscribe pages (powered by privacy-friendly hCaptcha)
ChangelogAugust 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 ๐งโโ๏ธ
Now you're able to check how it looks before saving it for everyone to see it ๐
More accurate live previews
We've improved live previews accross 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
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
Select all subscribers
Tired of selecting subs 20 by 20. Now you can select all 420 subs you got โจ
ChangelogJuly 2023
/api
We added a new /api page to your status page
This shows the different public endpoints available on your status page
Teams
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 ๐งโ๐
Directory Sync
Sync your team to Instatus via SCIM or HRIS
Better social og:image for your status pages
ChangelogJune 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 ๐
Customize the emails you send to users.
Use your logo, colors, border-radius, and a custom footer ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐จ
Show historical monthly uptime on your status page.
When you history, you won't only get uptime per 3 months
But we also included monthly uptime ๐
ChangelogMay 2023
Multi-level groups ๐คฏ
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
ChangelogApril 2023
Various accessibility improvements to your status page ๐ฅธ
Team notification settings
Set the default notification settings for new members in your team ๐ช
Auto-redirect visitors from your subdomain to your custom domain โจ
ChangelogMarch 2023
Metrics++
New beautiful, smooth chart that are quick to load. Add adding more metrics and re-order them in your page ๐
3rd party components++
We added many services you requested like Pingdom, Postmark, Replit, OpenAI, Amplify, Quickbase, and many mooore ๐
Add incident postmortems, finally! (available in new beta)
Better & shorter SMS messages ๐ฑ
Pagination for our public API endpoints
Korean language support ๐ฐ๐ท
ChangelogFebruary 2023
Components++
Better designed tooltips.
Custom developed to allow you to create 10x more components than before, without affecting page performance.
Improvements to our discord integration ๐ฆน๐ฝโโ๏ธ
Add support for Datadog EU for adding Metrics ๐ช๐บ
ChangelogJanuary 2023
Integrations++
We improved integrations significantly! Use webhooks and templates to fully customize your incidents โจ
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! 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
If you delete an active incident, you'll get a popup to quickly revert components back to operational
ChangelogDecember 2022
Select Audience
New page type! Assign teammates to the components they care about ๐งโ๐ป๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป
Start a 14-day free trial of Instatus SELECT and try it out ๐
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!
Display Datadog metrics on your status page ๐
Widgets for private pages
Use a private page, and still embed widgets!
We added a unique URLs to our embeds so that you can embed widgets privately, and outsiders won't be able to guess your URL!
Added a tiny bit of customization.
If you use our default notification method, we'll send your emails from subdomain@instatus.com instead of hello@instatus.com
ChangelogNovember 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: You can now use multiple SAML connections for your team
Add a service start date to each your components.
Added API endpoints for templates
ChangelogOctober 2022
Team Activity
Check who did what in your team. Including humans, bots and aliens ๐จโ๐ป๐ค๐ฉ๐ฝโ๐ป๐พ
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
ChangelogSeptember 2022
Switch from Statuspage โก๏ธ
Migrating from Statuspage had never been easier!
Now you can import your incidents, maintenances, templates, subscribers, logo, and everything from your Statuspage!
Affiliates ๐
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 ๐คฌ
Now you can protect your private page using a single password.
Share a password with your team, and you're done!
Template-based automation โจ
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 ๐ค
Now your customers can subscribe to an active incident that they care about.
ChangelogAugust 2022
Search, multi-select & delete โก๏ธ
Now you can search for incidents, maintenances, subscribers and more.
You can also multi-select and perform bulk deletes!
Support for AWS SES & SNS ๐
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 ๐ค
ChangelogJuly 2022
Archive components ๐ซฃ
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 ๐
Now you can check if you custom domain configuration is valid, and we'll send you an alert if it's not!
Export your subscribers as CSV
ChangelogJune 2022
New integration with Grafana ๐
Fixes & improvements to our floating widget
Fixed sending multiple automated maintenance updates instead of one
Improvements to our timezone handling when sending maintenance updates
ChangelogMay 2022
Introducing 3rd party components โจ
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 ๐
Private page customers can now experience our new status page design & experience, with better performance, and our time-machine!
Create your own custom widget ๐ฆนโโ๏ธ
We created a step-by-step guide on how to create your own custom widget using your public status page data.
ChangelogApril 2022
Introducing time-machine! ๐ ๐ ๐
Now you can seamlessly go back through time to check your previous uptime and notices โจ
Stormtrooper is now available for everyone
You can choose between 3 themes: Simple, Panda and Stormtrooper ๐ค
Import pingdom checks as Metrics
Select a pingdom check and show it as a metric on your status page ๐
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
ChangelogMarch 2022
Now you can display your current status in our new Intercom app โจ
Embed floating widget that only popups when you have an incident or upcoming maintenance ๐ฅ
Now you can search for your email subscribers ๐ง
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
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
ChangelogFebruary 2022
Introducing maintenance automations! ๐ค Now you can:
Remind subscribers before the maintenance starts
Start a maintenance automatically
And finish it automatically โ
We'll remind you when you have a long-running incident. Now you'll never forget to resolve your instatus incident ๐
Various small improvements and bug fixes โจ
ChangelogJanuary 2022
Now you can send to your Microsoft Teams channel when you have a status update ๐
Added MessageBird as an SMS integration ๐ค
Updated all API endpoints to respond with the correct status codes ๐ค
Various bug fixes and improvements ๐
ChangelogDecember 2021
Introducing full multi-language support! ๐๐๐
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 ๐ถ and Checkly ๐ฆ as a monitoring integrations ๐
ChangelogNovember 2021
Improvements to Metrics API ๐
Improvements to SMS sending including unsubscribe links ๐ฑ
Added Esendex as an SMS integration โ๏ธ
Added ability to auto confirm subscribers if you're on a paid plan ๐
Started the bug bounty program ๐ ๐ค
Various improvements and bug fixes ๐
ChangelogSeptember 2021
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
Sign in by Google ๐ฅ Also supported in private pages ๐
Maintain multiple status pages using one team ๐ฆน
Allow any email under your domain to get access to your team โจ
Switch between plans seamlessly ๐ค
Update subscriber names & components ๐ค
Use StatusCake as a monitoring integration ๐ฐ
ChangelogAugust 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
ChangelogJuly 2021
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
ChangelogJune 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
ChangelogMay 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
ChangelogApril 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
ChangelogMarch 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
ChangelogFebruary 2021
Instatus is now officially incorporated in the US using Stripe Atlas ๐ฉโ๐ผ
Instatus becomes an /open startup ๐
Launched Instatus Out app โ Monitor services you depend on in your menu bar ๐
Customizations ๐
Ability to add custom html below components
Added different SMTP modes to send emails using your custom service
Fixed bugs ๐
Issues related to ordering components
Issues related to sending webhooks
Issues related with uppercase and lowercase letters in login
ChangelogJanuary 2021
Added support for dark mode ๐ค
Added a new webhook integration: An easy way to add & resolve incidents ๐
Now you can integrate PagerDuty as your monitoring service
Included more data in your status-page-url/summary.json ๐งโ๐ป
Include previous maintenances under your incident history ๐ง
Better month formatting for your incident history ๐
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)
ChangelogDecember 2020
Now you can use add a status widget to your website ๐
Add metrics to your status page ๐
Use templates to add your incidents and maintenances faster โก๏ธ
Now you can automate your status page using PagerDuty and Better Uptime ๐ค
Better Incident / Maintenance / Confirmation emails ๐
Send emails using your custom address from Postmark or any SMTP server ๐ญ
Better subscribe pages ๐
Fix 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
ChangelogNovember 2020
New homepage featuring awesome customers like Sketch, freeCodeCamp and Padlet ๐
Improved showcase featuring more than 200 status pages ๐จ
Dashboard inputs now feel nicer, and status dropdowns show their associated colors ๐
Improved main status notice if you're under maintenance โข๏ธ
Now you can make component groups collapsed by default ๐ค
Added helpful tip to the dashboard for service started on to explain its purpose ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ
Started incorporation process in the US ๐ฉโ๐ผ
Fixed bugs ๐
Issues related to verifying pages
Multiple webhooks used to be sent if an incident affected multiple components
ChangelogOctober 2020
Add uptime percentage to components ๐
Better designs for dashboard, onboarding, blog and changelog ๐ ๐พ
You can customize your dates and times. 7 October 2020 vs 2019-10-7 โฐ
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
Ability to send emails from your own brand name and domain ๐
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
Added support for ๐ธ๐ฎSlovenian, ๐ต๐น Portuguese & ๐ง๐ท Brazilian Portuguese languages, thanks to contributers!
Fixed a bug related to re-ordering components ๐
Added these endpoints to the API
Components
Team members
Subscribers
ChangelogSeptember 2020
Released the REST API with these endpoints ๐
Incidents
Incident updates
Maintenances
Maintenance updates
Added ๐ท๐ธ Serbian language, thanks to contributers!
Resolved our very first incident ๐
Fast entry of teammates, components, etc. When you add one, the form doesn't close and it's ready for the next one! ๐
Moved the backend to Typescript to reduce the possibility of shipping new bugs ๐
Better looks to current incidents and maintenances ๐จโ๐ค
Uptime bars and incident titles in status pages will show different colors depending on severity of the issues ๐จ
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
Improved how your subscribers are notified about new maintenances ๐ฒ
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
ChangelogAugust 2020
Add subscribe by an Atom feed โ๏ธ
Add subscribe by RSS (works with Slack too!) ๐ข
Add subscribe by Webhook ๐
Make get updates menu nicer ๐ฉ๐ผโ๐จ
Add ๐ต๐ฑ Polish language, thanks to contributers!
Add Runscope integration ๐ฉโ๐ป
Add Freshping integration ๐จ๐ฟโ๐ป
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
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
ChangelogJuly 2020
This month, I added new
New integrations tab โ๏ธ
Add datadog integration ๐ถ
Launch Instatus help ๐โโ๏ธ
Added support for ๐ณ๐ฑ Dutch, ๐ณ๐ด Norwegian and ๐ช๐ธ Spanish languages, thanks to contributers!
Better privacy. Irreversibly delete your account and status pages ๐
Better handling of automation through emails. Create and resolve incidents automatically instead of just changing the status of affected components โ๏ธ
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
ChangelogJuly 2020
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