Month: January 2014

We just launched a surprise new feature… External service monitoring!

Our robots are continuously monitoring the API endpoints of various 3rd party services. Over 50 services are already being monitored and you can see the whole list at whatsup.status.io.

You can now select the appropriate services and include their current status directly on your status page.

Here’s an example of how external service health is displayed on our status page:

Add external services to your status page in the Dashboard. Simple go to the Components view and scroll to the bottom. Click the Add service button in the External services section.

Feel free to add as many services as you wish. They will be sorted alphabetically on your status page.

Stripe, Twilio, Mailchimp and Twitter are just some of the 50+ services we are monitoring already. Let us know what services we are missing.

Unlimited external services are included with every plan. Get rollin’ today at Status.io

v1 of the Status.io API is fully baked and ready for consumption.

Developer resources are located at developers.status.io

The API includes the most critical functions for managing your status page.

If you build a plugin, let us know!

And look out for the custom metrics API, coming very soon!

A new alternative TLD is now supported for custom domains: .com

When using a custom domain, such as status.example.com, you must create a CNAME record pointing to domain.status.io.

Now you may choose between the .io or .com TLD.

.io should use domain.status.io

.com should use domain.statusio.com

Why does it matter?

TLD’s are each controlled by different entities, different infrastructure, etc. We all saw the .io TLD experience issues early in 2013. While we can’t prevent a TLD issue, we decided to offer multi-TLD’s so our customers can choose which TLD they wish to utilize.