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A power event in Google’s europe-west2-b (London) zone triggered a wide Google Cloud outage on October 20, 2026, taking down dozens of services including Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes for customers across the UK and beyond. StatusGator sent an Early Warning Signal at 07:02 UTC, 1 hour and 35 minutes before Google Cloud publicly acknowledged the incident at 08:37 UTC. The ripple effect was wide: StatusGator tracked 171 other services showing signs of impact during the outage.

StatusGator now monitors more than 12,000 services, bringing even more of the tools your team depends on into one place. From cloud infrastructure and AI platforms to payment providers and education software, our monitoring catalog keeps growing alongside your stack.

You can now choose which status changes trigger alerts for Website and Ping monitors, bringing the same notification control previously available only for Service monitors. Keep recovery notifications on, focus on downtime, or include SSL warnings for your websites. Adjust each monitor to receive the alerts that matter to you.

You can now retrieve outage reports submitted through your StatusGator status page using our API. Bring user feedback into your internal dashboards, reporting tools, and incident workflows.

You can now receive a webhook notification whenever someone submits an outage report on your StatusGator status page. We’ve also added event selection, so you can choose exactly which types of notifications your webhook receives.

StatusGator already keeps you informed as outages happen with status change notifications and Early Warning Signals. Now, you can also get a simple summary of how your services performed over the past week. We’ve added Weekly Uptime Reports, delivered directly to your inbox. Each weekly report gives you an at-a-glance view of your StatusGator board, including: This makes it easy to review the week without digging through individual incidents or notification emails.

September brought new ways to stay informed and make StatusGator work for you. From our new Mobile app and weekly uptime reports to more flexible status page settings and integration improvements, here’s what’s new this month.

September 2026 brought a steady run of disruptions across e-commerce, AI, developer tools, education platforms, and cloud infrastructure. StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals often surfaced these incidents well before providers posted official updates.

We’ve updated the StatusGator API v3 to help you see how many requests your integration can make and handle rate limits more smoothly. Responses that count toward your organization’s per-minute limit now include three headers: If a request exceeds your limit, the API returns 429 Too Many Requests and a Retry-After header telling your integration how many seconds to wait before trying again.

You can now customize how monitor details appear on your StatusGator status page. New display settings let you choose how much uptime history to show, which details are visible, and whether monitors start expanded or collapsed.