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StatusGator now monitors more than 8,000 services now! From cloud platforms and AI tools to communication apps, payment providers, developer infrastructure, and business software, we continue expanding our monitoring coverage every day so teams can track everything that matters in one place.

We’ve rolled out an update to the Monitor metrics view to improve both performance and visibility into response time trends for website and ping monitors.

In Q1 2026, we introduced a new SolarWinds Observability integration, started preparing the upcoming Status API for release, and spent time learning directly from MSPs at CloudFest 2026 about the operational challenges shaping modern incident communication.

On May 22, 2026, merchants using Shopify experienced a brief but widespread disruption that affected access to product pages, collections, and administrative tools. While the outage lasted less than an hour, it created immediate challenges for businesses that rely on Shopify to manage inventory, update products, and operate online stores. StatusGator detected the developing incident at 10:20 UTC using Early Warning Signals, 18 minutes before Shopify officially acknowledged the outage at 10:38 UTC.

An error budget is the acceptable amount of unreliability permitted by your SLO over a defined time window. It is not a target. It is not a stretch goal. It is a hard ceiling that, when breached, should trigger a pre-agreed organizational response — feature freezes, postmortems, or infrastructure investment. The formula is blunt: Error Budget = 1 - SLO Target Error Budget (time) = (1 - SLO Target) × Window Duration For a 30-day window: That last number should make you uncomfortable.

On May 18, 2026, organizations using Microsoft Fabric experienced a multi-hour outage that disrupted analytics workloads, reporting systems, and access to platform services across several regions. StatusGator detected the developing incident at 14:00 UTC using Early Warning Signals, 37 minutes before Microsoft officially acknowledged the outage at 14:37 UTC.

On May 14, 2026, users across multiple regions began reporting problems with Slack, including messaging failures, sign-in issues, and problems loading attachments and images. While the outage did not affect every user, reports quickly showed the issue was widespread enough to disrupt business communication for organizations around the world. StatusGator identified the incident through customer outage reports and triggered an Early Warning Signals alert at 14:21 UTC.

You can now customize the logo shown in your email header on all paid plans. We’ve also updated how email customization works in StatusGator to make branding options clearer and easier to manage.